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Operant AI, founded in 2020 in San Francisco, USA, provides runtime protection for cloud-native applications, safeguarding APIs, Kubernetes environments, and AI models against cyberattacks.
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- 2024-09Series A$10M
Investors · Massive, Calm Ventures, SineWave Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Gaingels, Felicis VenturesSource · SVTR Weekly #070
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