Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has closed a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital, with First Harmonic participating, bringing the San Francisco startup's total raised to $55 million. Founded by Anthropic's first product hire Rune Kvist and former METR COO Rajiv Dattani, AIUC wants to be the SOC 2 of AI agents.
SOC 2, But For The Agent Sitting In Your Stack
The company's AIUC-1 standard combines independent audits with technical red-teaming across roughly 5,000 risk-and-attack combinations covering security, safety and reliability. Certified vendors are re-tested quarterly, and AIUC pairs the audit with an insurance policy that pays out when the covered agent misbehaves. Named adopters already include Cursor, ElevenLabs, Harvey, KPMG, Lovable, UiPath and Fin. Kvist's framing: “Evidence of security and reliability is now the main bottleneck” for enterprise AI deployment.
Where The $40M Goes
AIUC plans to extend its audit, standards and insurance stack from AI agents to frontier models themselves, adding capacity for third-party oversight of the underlying models most enterprise agents are built on. The company argues that governance frameworks — not model capability — are the current bottleneck for large-scale agent deployment, and that certification plus insurance is the fastest way to shift risk off the buyer's balance sheet.
Part Of A Bigger AI Governance Wave
AIUC's raise arrives as the AI-agent security stack fills in fast. See our related coverage of Eve Security's $7.5M seed for runtime agent policing and Anthropic's $65B Series H as the money moves from models to controls.
Reporting based on coverage from PR Newswire, TechCrunch, SecurityWeek and Forkast.