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Vision & Values

Giskard defends the vision of AI that can be trusted by its makers and users. 



We are committed to ensuring companies can deploy AI Agents with trust, by advancing research in AI safety and providing the leading standards for LLM quality & security in critical applications.

Founded in Europe, we are Data Scientists, AI Engineers and AI Researchers who have spent years building & securing mission-critical AI systems for enterprises.

2021

We founded Giskard to address the challenges we faced in ensuring the performance, reliability and security of AI systems. Co-founders combine 25 years of experience building AI systems at Dataiku and Thales.

2022

We raised our first round of 1.5 M€ led by Elaia with participation from Bessemer & notable angel investors including the CTO of Hugging Face. 
To learn more, you can read our announcement.

2023

We received a strategic investment of 3 M€ from the European Commission as part of the EIC Accelerator Horizon 2030 program. You can read more here.

2024

We won a 3 M€ grant from Bpifrance to lead research in evaluation & mitigation for Large Language Models (LLMs), in a collaborative consortium with Artefact, INA, BnF and Mistral AI. You can learn more here.

2025

We launched the Phare LLM Benchmark in partnership with Google DeepMind to evaluate LLMs across key safety & security dimensions. Trusted by enterprises like AXA, BNP Paribas, and Michelin, our testing platform secures customer-facing AI agents deployed to millions of users worldwide.

We believe in good engineering, collaboration & responsible innovation.

We are:

Passionate about building robust solutions to real-life problems
Driven by customer needs and outstanding user experiences
Hungry to learn and improve every day
Conscious about technology's role in our society
Empathetic team players

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Meet the team

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Alex Combessie
Co-founder & co-CEO
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Jean-Marie John-Mathews, PhD
Co-founder & co-CEO
Matteo Dora, Giskard's ML Researcher
Matteo Dora, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Weixuan Xiao, PhD
AI Researcher
Pierre Le Jeune, PhD
AI Researcher
Etienne Duchesne, PhD
AI Researcher
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Kevin Messiaen
Software Engineer Lead
Henrique Chaves
Software Engineer
Bazire Houssin
Staff Software Engineer
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Blanca Rivera Campos
Product Marketing Manager
Stéphane Changarnier
Design Engineer
David Berenstein
Developer Advocate
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Myriam Brouillet
Executive Assistant
Guillaume Sibout
Head of Sales & Partnerships
Alexandre Foucher
Customer Success Manager
Giskard employee: João Mesquita
João Mesquita
Enterprise Account Executive
Giskard employee: Indira Ouedraogo
Indira Ouedraogo
Business Development Representative
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Meet some of theInvestors of Giskard

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Julien Chaumond
CTO of Hugging Face
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Sébastien Lefebvre
Partner at Elaia
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Charles Gorintin
Co-founder of Alan & Mistral AI
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Oscar Salazar
Founding CTO of Uber
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Nathalie Gaveau
Co-founder of Price Minister
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Shéhérazade Semsar de Boisséson
CEO of McCourt Global
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Nick Hernandez
CEO of 360 Learning
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Niall Murphy
CEO of Stanza Systems

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