About Realm Labs

About

Realm Labs was founded by AI researchers from three traditions that converged on the same problem: adversarial machine learning, AI safety and explainability, and large-scale systems and supply-chain security. Between them, the founding team holds 20 patents and more than 5,000 academic citations across more than a decade of work on how AI systems fail and how they can be defended.

What came out of that work was a research breakthrough the team calls Deep Neural Inspection. What linked the three traditions was a shared finding: an LLM's true intent is visible only inside its own mathematical representations, not in the language it produces. DNI reads a model's internal manifolds as it processes a request, catching prompt injection, jailbreaks, data exfiltration, and unsafe behavior at the source. It is the only inspection point in an AI system that the model itself cannot forge.

The team building it.

Built by AI experts from Symantec, Splunk, Snowflake, Google, Apple

Saurabh Shintre
Saurabh Shintre

CEO & Founder

AI Security Leader at Symantec and Splunk. PhD CMU. IIT Bombay.

Piotr Mardziel
Piotr Mardziel

Head of AI

Expert in Trustworthy ML and AI Interpretability. Ex-TruEra and Snowflake. CMU. PhD UMD.

Akash Mukherjee
Akash Mukherjee

Head of Engineering

Security Lead for Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts at Google, Private Cloud Compute at Apple. USC, IIT BHU.

Saahil Agrawal
Saahil Agrawal

Founding ML Engineer

AI/ML Lead at Abnormal AI and Walmart. Stanford University. IIT Madras.

Freyam Mehta
Freyam Mehta

Founding Engineer

AI/ML Engineer leading security frameworks and AI interpretability. IIIT Hyderabad.

Nina Wei
Nina Wei

Founding Designer

Founding designer at Lamini, AI Fund, Baidu Research. University of Washington.

Building the future of AI security.

We hire researchers and engineers who would do this work even if no one paid them. Then we pay them well. Open roles span AI/ML engineering, security research, platform engineering, and design.

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Backed by the best.

Advisors

Jason Clinton
Jason Clinton

Deputy CISO, Anthropic

Paul Kocher
Paul Kocher

Inventor, Marconi Prize Winner

Nicole Perlroth
Nicole Perlroth

Cybersecurity Journalist, Author

Hugh Thompson
Hugh Thompson

Executive Chairman, RSAC

Greg Clark
Greg Clark

Managing Partner, Crosspoint Capital. Former CEO, Symantec. Founder & Former CEO, Blue Coat Systems.

Investors.

Backed by

Crosspoint CapitalTola CapitalFirst Rays Venture Partners

Realm Labs operates from Sunnyvale California.

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We believe that as AI becomes embedded in products, workflows, and decision-making, trust will be the factor that determines how far it can go. We exist to ensure that progress doesn't come at the cost of control, clarity, or accountability.

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RUNTIME AI OBSERVABILITY AND CONTROL

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Built on the same interpretability research foundation used at Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI.