What Vijil Does
Vijil builds trust infrastructure for AI agents, helping enterprises make them reliable, secure, and safe enough for mission-critical work. The platform spans the agent lifecycle through four products: Vijil Depot (hardened LLMs and guardrails), Vijil Diamond (testing and validation before deployment), Vijil Dome (real-time production defense), and Vijil Darwin (continuous improvement via reinforcement learning). Vijil claims it can cut typical agent-deployment timelines from six months to six weeks by closing trust gaps, and it integrates with frameworks such as LangChain and CrewAI. The team also maintains open-source security tooling including garak, an LLM vulnerability scanner.
Funding & Background
Vijil was founded in 2023 by senior AWS alumni Vin Sharma (CEO), Subho Majumdar, and Zdravko Pantic, and is based in Menlo Park, California. The company emerged from stealth in 2024 with seed backing from Mayfield and Gradient Ventures, and in November 2025 raised $17M led by Brightmind Partners with participation from Mayfield and Gradient, bringing total funding to about $23M. Around the same time it was named a Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 and a CB Insights Most Innovative Startup, underscoring its position in the fast-growing AI agent trust and security category.