Trent AI is a London-based startup building multi-agent security for autonomous AI workflows. It uses specialized judge agents with reinforcement learning to scan, assess risk, and mitigate vulnerabilities.

How much did Trent AI raise?

Trent AI raised $13M in seed funding led by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital, with backing from leaders at OpenAI, Spotify, Databricks, and AWS.

Who founded Trent AI?

Founded by Eno Thereska (ex-AWS Distinguished Engineer), Neil Lawrence (Cambridge ML Professor, ex-Amazon ML Director), and Zhenwen Dai (ex-AWS ML Scientist, ex-Spotify).

What does Trent AI detect?

Trent AI detects prompt injection, tool misuse, unintended actions, data exfiltration, and privilege escalation in autonomous AI agent workflows.

How does Trent AI work with OpenClaw?

Trent AI provides a security layer for agentic AI systems including OpenClaw deployments, using judge agents to continuously monitor agent behavior and data flows for security risks.

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Trent AI Raises $13M Seed to Secure Autonomous AI Agent Workflows

London-based Trent AI emerged from stealth with $13M seed led by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital. Backed by OpenAI, Spotify, Databricks, and AWS leaders. Built specialized 'judge' agents using reinforcement learning to continuously scan, assess risk, and mitigate vulnerabilities in autonomous AI workflows. Founded by ex-AWS engineers and Cambridge ML professor.

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A vulnerability intelligence feed that aggregates AI agent security events across the OpenClaw ecosystem and delivers scored alerts within minutes of disclosure

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OpenClaw accumulated 138 CVEs in 63 days at a pace of 2.2 new vulnerabilities per day, while 155,000 unprotected instances sit exposed on the internet. Existing CVE databases track millions of generic entries but none focus specifically on the AI agent ecosystem. The jgamblin/OpenClawCVEs GitHub tracker (135 stars) proves demand exists, but it is a static repo with no alerting, no scoring, and no API. This product aggregates all AI agent security events in real time from GitHub Security Advisories, ClawHub skill audits, NVD feeds, and exposed instance scans, scores each by exploitability and blast radius specific to agent deployments, and delivers prioritized alerts via webhook, Slack, RSS, or API within minutes of disclosure.

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