Vijil raises USD $17 million to boost resilience of enterprise AI
Vijil has secured USD $17 million in funding to further develop technology aimed at ensuring the resilience of enterprise AI agents. The funding round was led by BrightMind Partners, with Mayfield and Gradient also participating. This brings the company's total funds raised to USD $23 million.
Funding details
The fresh capital injection will be used to expand deployment of Vijil's platform, which addresses challenges enterprises face when moving AI agents into production environments. Enterprises often lack adequate tools and expertise to guarantee the security, reliability, and governance of these systems at scale.
Vijil's leadership team includes individuals with experience building AI infrastructure for major technology providers. Chief Executive Officer Vin Sharma previously managed deep learning infrastructure at Amazon Web Services. The team is complemented by expertise in both engineering and artificial intelligence, with members such as Zdravko Pantic, Dr. Subho Majumdar, Radina Mihaleva, and Dr. Tim G. J. Rudner holding leadership roles. The advisory board includes technologists and academics from companies and institutions such as NVIDIA, Meta, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Trust and resilience
Vijil offers a modular platform designed to help organisations build, test, and deploy AI agents with a focus on resilience. The system employs reinforcement learning methods that use production telemetry data to continuously improve the robustness of AI agents after deployment. This allows teams to address operational risks and enhance governance, aiming to reduce both time-to-production and compliance costs.
SmartRecruiters, a recruitment technology company, uses Vijil's platform to accelerate the deployment of AI-driven agents in client-facing workflows. "Our enterprise customers demand trust verification before deploying AI in hiring workflows," said Michal Nowak, Senior Vice President of Engineering, SmartRecruiters. "Vijil helps us ship AI agents in six weeks instead of six months while dramatically lowering compliance costs."
The difficulty of scaling AI agents beyond small experiments is widely acknowledged in enterprise environments. Factors such as operational risk and the lack of integrated trust infrastructure often slow down deployment. Vijil's platform addresses these concerns by combining compliance, observability, and continuous learning in a unified offering.
Industry recognition
The company was recently recognised as a "Cool Vendor" in the 2025 Gartner Cool Vendors in Agentic AI Trust, Risk and Security Management report. This distinction highlights companies that offer new approaches in trust, risk, and security management specifically for AI agent-based systems.
Stephen Ward, General Partner at BrightMind, said, "Vijil has assembled a seasoned team with deep experience of having built AI infrastructure at AWS. What sets Vijil apart is the ability to continuously harden AI agents through reinforcement learning. Vijil doesn't just secure AI agents; it helps them adapt and evolve."
Vijay Reddy, Partner at Mayfield, added, "Most enterprises are experimenting with AI agents but only a small fraction are scaling them. The biggest barrier is trust, which point solutions cannot overcome. Vijil is the most comprehensive platform to solve this with continuous learning from observability data."
"The adoption by customers, integration with partners, support of investors, and recognition by industry analysts validate our vision. Vijil delivers the essential infrastructure layer that enterprises need now to trust AI agents in production," said Vin Sharma, Founder and CEO, Vijil.
