As more companies incorporate Generative AI into their daily operations, they face new challenges such as lack of visibility, governance issues, security concerns, and difficulty measuring return on investment. Portal26, led by Arti Raman, was built to solve these problems.
The U.S. company’s platform helps companies monitor, secure, and measure the use of AI across their teams. This allows leaders to see how AI is being used, ensure compliance, and get the most value from their investments.
“As companies around the world invest in generative AI, they need a way to responsibly manage and measure it. We built Portal26 to give organizations the visibility, governance, and analytics they need to securely unlock the full potential of AI,” said Raman, CEO of Portal26.
Today, the Silicon Valley-based company that helps companies securely deploy and manage generative AI raised $9 million in a Series A round led by Shasta Ventures. The round also included participation from Fusion Fund, a leading deep technology and AI investor, and the venture arm of a Fortune 500 financial services company.
This new round follows Portal26’s $6 million seed funding in 2022, bringing its total funding to $15 million. The new funding will be used to accelerate product innovation, strengthen customer partnerships, and expand the company’s fast-growing GenAI deployment management platform.
Supporting companies in utilizing AI
Arti Raman, founder and CEO of Portal26, has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and risk management, having held leadership roles at companies such as Symantec. Incidents like the 2017 Equifax breach inspired her to build tools that would help businesses responsibly deploy AI without compromising security.
Raman said. TFN“Portal26 offers the industry’s only NIST FIPS 140 certified cryptographic forensic vault where enterprises can store complete and detailed GenAI transactions, ensuring full auditability, compliance reporting, regulatory support, forensic investigation support, legal coverage, and extensive reporting capabilities. Between automated zero-day shadow AI detection and forensic vaulting, Portal26 is the only company that can support GenAI retrospective investigations, which companies are aware of weeks after detection.”
Portal26 is unique in that it packs a wide range of functionality into one platform. It offers cutting-edge features such as zero-day ShadowAI detection, advanced forensic vaults certified to advanced cryptographic standards, AI-driven analysis of usage intent and risk scoring, and strict policy enforcement across existing security frameworks.
Unlike Microsoft Azure AI (with powerful underlying model integration and enterprise AI services) and AWS AI platform, Portal26 brings together governance, security, strategy, and training into an integrated system that fits neatly into enterprise workflows.
Raman further added, “Portal26 is the only solution that scans all GenAI transactions to understand and extract use cases. Portal26 then estimates the value provided by the use of GenAI in a specific use case and performs a risk-value analysis. Portal26 also allows for understanding and rationalization of license usage. All these features enable powerful ROI analysis to support GenAI investment decisions across private, licensed, and public use of GenAI within an enterprise.”
What’s next?
Looking to the future, Portal26 plans to continue innovating by expanding its strategy and governance capabilities, deepening key partnerships, and expanding its reach around the world.
“Portal26 plans to expand on broader adoption management themes to help organizations use our platform to meet security fundamentals (shadow AI, security, risk management), but soon move into use case identification, risk-value analysis, and GenAI strategy to truly realize the benefits of GenAI adoption,” Raman concluded.
To achieve this for our customers, we will be making significant investments in four key areas: This means expanding AI discovery to include deeper models, agents, and data impact; expanding productivity and ROI capabilities to include scenario analysis; expanding consumption analytics to include costs and savings; and expanding reporting capabilities. “
Shasta Ventures Managing Director Jacob Mullins added, “As the first major GenAI deployment management platform, their innovative approach to discovering, securing, and delivering measurable ROI for GenAI within enterprises is a great example of the leadership and creativity we seek to support. We look forward to helping Portal26 continue to build something extraordinary and maintain strong growth.”
