New Startup Offers AI Agent Safety Certification

Former Anthropic employee Rune Kvist and ex-METR COO Rajiv Dattani have launched AIUC, a startup offering third-party auditing and certification for AI agents. The company has raised $55 million total, including a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital, with customers including Cursor, Harvey, and ElevenLabs. AIUC developed a standard called AIUC-1, modeled on the cybersecurity framework SOC 2, and runs agents through 5,000 tests covering jailbreaks, hallucinations, and data leaks. The goal is to give enterprises independent verification of AI agent safety before deployment.