History, Vision & Values

We are AI practitioners: Data Scientists, ML Researchers, Engineers & AI Ethicists. We created Giskard in 2021 because we were frustrated at how difficult it is to ensure AI models' performance, fairness & security. We combine 20 years of experience developing mission-critical AI systems, particularly at Dataiku, Thales & CERN.

We are driven by standards from mature engineering practices: manufacturing and software. Partners of CEN-CENELEC, AVIDML and ISO, we want to bring AI into the age of Quality, Security & Compliance.

In 2022, we raised our first round of 1.5M€, led by Elaia, with participation from Bessemer and notable angel investors including the CTO of Hugging Face. To read more about this fundraising, you can read our announcement.

In 2023, we received a strategic investment of 3M€ from the European Commission to build a SaaS platform to automate compliance with the upcoming EU AI regulation. You can read more here.

Giskard defends the vision of a Responsible AI that serves the business performance of companies & respects the rights of citizens. To embody this mission, Giskard provides AI professionals with a holistic platform to ensure the quality, security & compliance of all AI models.
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We believe in good engineering, collaboration & responsible innovation. We are: