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Repello Ai

Entrepreneur First '24

Bangalore, IN Β· Founded 2024 Β· 6 known investors

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Repello builds AI security tooling that gives enterprises visibility into AI agents (such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot and browser agents) running on employee workstations, detecting and blocking credential access, unsafe commands and unknown outbound connections. Its platform combines AI asset inventory, adversarial red teaming and runtime guardrails, deployable through existing EDR and MDM tools, to secure AI systems across production environments.

Also known as Repello Β· Repello AI Β· Repello-AI

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Founders & leadership

Repello Ai was founded in 2024 by Aryaman Behera and Naman Mishra.

ABAryaman Behera
Aryaman BeherainCEOAryaman Behera has spent five years working in offensive security and bug bounty hunting, including a stint on Microsoft's Azure Red Team. He also served as captain of the highest-ranked cybersecurity team in India.
NMNaman Mishra
Naman MishrainCTONaman Mishra was a founding engineer at an e-sports company that grew past 500,000 users, and previously worked as a software developer at American Express. He has also published research on machine learning security.

Investors Β· 6

Also in the syndicate Β· 5

Hari SrinivasanMatt CliffordNeeraj AroraSatya VasVivek Raghavan

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Repello AI develops security tooling for enterprises deploying AI systems and AI agents. Its platform is organized around what the company calls a three-phase framework: an inventory layer that discovers AI systems running in production and maintains an AI Bill of Materials (AI BOM) mapping applications, agentic workflows and exposure paths; ARTEMIS, an autonomous red teaming engine that tests AI applications and agents across text, image and audio modalities and maps findings to standards such as OWASP, NIST and MITRE; and ARGUS, a runtime security layer that applies adaptive guardrails to monitor multilingual and multimodal interactions and block malicious inputs, unsafe actions and policy violations in real time. Findings from discovery feed testing, and testing results calibrate runtime controls.

A more recent product, Workstation Lens, extends this coverage to employee endpoints. It is intended to show what coding and browser AI agents β€” including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Copilot β€” access on a device, which commands they run and where they send data. Described use cases include detecting SKILL.md instructions that exfiltrate data to external destinations, flagging agent access to local credential files such as ~/.aws/credentials, and identifying MCP servers whose checksums or permissions change after approval. The product can block credential access, unsafe commands and unknown outbound connections before execution, and push remediation (removal, update or blocking of unsafe configurations) across a device fleet via existing EDR and MDM tooling such as Microsoft Defender and Kandji. Repello describes an on-premises deployment posture in which files are scanned locally and only findings, not raw files, leave the device.

Repello also publishes open-source security tools through its GitHub organization, including Agent-Wiz (a CLI for threat modeling and visualizing agents built on LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI and similar frameworks), Whistleblower (an offensive tool for testing system prompt leakage and capability discovery of API-exposed AI applications), an MCP tool-poisoning exploit demonstration, an Artemis Python SDK, and a GitHub Action for running Artemis scans.

Founding story

Repello was established in 2024 by IIT Roorkee alumni Aryaman Behera and Naman Mishra, who framed the company around an offensive-security mindset β€” using attacker techniques to find and address vulnerabilities in AI systems before they are exploited.

Business model

Repello sells an enterprise software platform for AI security, marketed through demos and a 7-day pilot for Workstation Lens, with deployment through customers' existing EDR and MDM infrastructure and an on-premises option where scanning and findings remain in customer-controlled infrastructure. Specific pricing terms are not disclosed in the sources.

Not disclosed in the available sources; the company offers paid enterprise products with free entry points such as a free red teaming scan and a 7-day pilot.

Traction

Public signals include open-source traction (Agent-Wiz at 393 GitHub stars, Whistleblower at 177), customer testimonials from a head of security and from Lyzr CEO Siva Surendira, stated customers in India and among Fortune 500 companies, and inclusion in Gartner emerging-tech research on Agentic AI Security. Company-stated platform figures include 15M+ attack patterns, 270+ vulnerability types and 100+ languages supported.

Latest developments

Repello has shifted messaging toward endpoint AI agent security with Workstation Lens, which covers Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot and browser agents and integrates with EDR/MDM tools including Microsoft Defender and Kandji. It reports being named in Gartner's emerging tech report for Agentic AI Security (January 2026), published a red teaming assessment of Lyzr's AI agents (December 2025), and maintains an artemis-recon Claude Code plugin repository with commit activity into 2026.

β–ΈFull profile β€” market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies

Market position

Positions itself as a security platform purpose-built for AI systems, arguing traditional security tooling cannot cover agentic AI. It states it was named in Gartner research covering emerging Agentic AI Security companies (January 2026).

Repello emphasizes an integrated loop across discovery, adversarial testing and runtime defense rather than point tools, extension of AI security to employee workstations and coding agents, deployment through existing EDR/MDM stacks, and a local-scan architecture in which raw files stay on the device.

Technology

The platform combines AI asset discovery, autonomous adversarial testing and runtime enforcement. Repello states ARTEMIS tests against 15M+ evolving attack patterns and 270+ AI vulnerability types across text, image and audio, covering prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage and model extraction, with reporting aligned to OWASP LLM Top 10, EU AI Act, NIST and MITRE. ARGUS provides guardrails, input/output filtering and real-time policy enforcement with support for 100+ languages. Workstation Lens performs local scanning of agent configurations (SKILL.md files, MCP servers, plugins, hooks) on employee devices and enforces controls through EDR/MDM.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise sales supported by demos, free red teaming scans and 7-day pilots, partnerships and integrations, open-source developer tools that build awareness (Agent-Wiz, Whistleblower), published research and customer assessments (e.g., a red teaming assessment of Lyzr AI agents). Engineering, product and R&D are in Bengaluru while sales and marketing are in San Francisco. The company said seed funding would be used to scale go-to-market and pursue strategic partnerships and integrations.

Enterprise security teams deploying generative AI and AI agents, including regulated and high-stakes environments; the company states customers in India and some Fortune 500 companies, with North America as its largest market and customers in the Middle East.

Geography

Engineering, product and R&D teams in Bengaluru, India; sales and marketing in San Francisco. Customers in India, North America (largest market) and the Middle East.

History

Founded in 2024, the company launched ARTEMIS automated red teaming and Repello Guard (runtime guardrails and threat monitoring), open-sourced tools such as Whistleblower and Agent-Wiz through 2024-2025, and announced a $1.2M seed round in June 2025 led by participation from Venture Highway, pi Ventures and Entrepreneur First. It published a red teaming assessment of Lyzr AI agents in December 2025, was named in Gartner's emerging tech report for Agentic AI Security in January 2026, and has since expanded the platform to Workstation Lens for endpoint AI agent security alongside Inventory, ARTEMIS and ARGUS.

Risks & controversies

No controversies are reported in the sources. Sources note company-stated statistics (e.g., over 20% of real-world AI security attacks succeeding within 60 seconds; 87% of AI applications having critical vulnerabilities) that are attributed to internal research and are not independently verified. Investor and advisor affiliations are described inconsistently across the company's own materials (for example, Charlie Songhurst is listed as 'Former Head of Strategy, Microsoft' on the about page and as 'Board Member, Meta; ex-VP, Microsoft' in the funding announcement).

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources β€” announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
AI vulnerability types coveredJan 2026270 types
Attack patterns used in ARTEMIS red teamingJan 202615,000,000 patterns
Company-stated share of AI applications with critical vulnerabilitiesJun 202587%
Company-stated share of real-world AI security attacks succeeding within 60 secoJun 202520%
GitHub stars - Agent-WizJan 2026393 stars
GitHub stars - WhistleblowerJan 2026177 stars
Languages supportedJan 2026100 languages
Public GitHub repositoriesJan 20269 repositories

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β€” not independently audited.

Timeline Β· 6

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2026
Named in Gartner emerging tech report for Agentic AI Security

Repello AI stated it was named in Gartner's emerging tech research covering Agentic AI Security companies.

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Jan 2026
Workstation Lens for AI agent security on employee devices

Workstation Lens monitors AI coding and browser agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot) on employee workstations, discovering shadow agents, SKILL.md files, MCP servers, plugins and hooks; blocking credential access, unsafe commands and unknown outbound connections; and pushing fleet-wide remediation via existing EDR and MDM tools such as Microsoft Defender and Kandji.

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Dec 2025
Published red teaming assessment of Lyzr AI agents

Repello published a blog post describing its red teaming assessment of Lyzr's AI agents; Lyzr CEO Siva Surendira provided a testimonial on Repello's website.

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Jun 2025
Repello AI announces $1.2M seed round

Repello AI announced a $1.2 million seed round backed by Venture Highway (described as acquired by General Catalyst), pi Ventures, Entrepreneurs First and angel investors including Matt Clifford, Charlie Songhurst, Vivek Raghavan, Neeraj Arora and Hari Srinivasan. Funds were earmarked for expanding ARTEMIS and Repello Guard, open-sourcing internal tools and hiring across engineering, research and go-to-market. Economic Times reported the round on 2025-06-12, also naming angel investor Satya Vas.

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Jan 2025
ARTEMIS automated red teaming for AI

Repello introduced ARTEMIS (Automated Red Teaming Engine for Mapping, Identification, and Scanning), a continuous adversarial testing engine for LLM and GenAI applications covering text, image and audio, with compliance-aligned reporting (EU AI Act, OWASP LLM Top 10).

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Jan 2025
Repello Guard runtime defense

Repello Guard provides runtime security for AI applications, deploying customized guardrails, input/output filters and remediation playbooks and detecting AI-specific threats such as unsafe output, competitor mentions and system prompt leaks.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

β–ΈResearch sources Β· 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Repello Ai do?
Repello AI is an Indian AI-security company offering AI asset discovery, automated red teaming, runtime guardrails and workstation agent security.
Who founded Repello Ai?
Repello Ai was founded by Aryaman Behera, Naman Mishra in 2024.
Who are Repello Ai's investors?
Repello Ai's investors include Entrepreneur First.
Where is Repello Ai headquartered?
Repello Ai is headquartered in Bangalore, IN.