{"id":1365,"date":"2024-09-10T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T11:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2024-09-10T11:20:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T11:20:53","slug":"chatbot-start-up-splxai-lands-2m-amid-growing-cybersecurity-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/blog\/chatbot-start-up-splxai-lands-2m-amid-growing-cybersecurity-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatbot start-up SplxAI lands $2m amid growing cybersecurity threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A start-up which helps companies protect against cyberattacks targeting their AI chatbots has raised millions of dollars to fund its expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Sky News understands that SplxAI, which was founded earlier this year, will announce this week that it has secured $2m from investors led by Inovo.vc, South Central Ventures and Runtime Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it aims to plug &#8220;gaping security holes&#8221; in conversational AI, with chatbots now used by more than 1.5 billion people globally.<\/p>\n<p>It has built what it describes as an advanced security platform called Probe which can identify vulnerabilities in chatbot systems before they are exposed by cyberattackers.<\/p>\n<p>Angel investors including David Politis, founder of BetterCloud, and Elad Schulman, whose company Segasec was sold to Mimecast, have also invested in SplxAI&#8217;s pre-seed round.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of AI chatbot security has become increasingly critical as their use has exploded in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Many large companies now use them in place of armies of customer service agents, although their effectiveness is often mixed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/chatbot-start-up-splxai-lands-2m-amid-growing-cybersecurity-threat-13212179\">Read the Full Story Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Sky News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A start-up which helps companies protect against cyberattacks targeting their AI chatbots has raised millions of dollars to fund its expansion. 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