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Booz Allen Invests In AI Security Company HiddenLayer

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 26th, 2023

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Booz Allen Invests In AI Security Company HiddenLayer

Christopher Sestito, co-founder and CEO of HiddenLayer. Photo: HiddenLayer

Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] on Tuesday said its ventures arm has made another strategic investment in adversarial artificial intelligence capabilities with an investment in the AI security company HiddenLayer. The investment was part of a $50 million Series A funding round HiddenLayer announced last week led by M12, which is Microsoft’s [MSFT] venture capital fund, and includes IBM [IBM] Ventures, Capital One [COF] Ventures, and Ten Eleven Ventures. HiddenLayer, based in Austin, Texas was founded in March 2022. The startup…

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