AI-Native Security and Visibility for Shadow AI

Aurascape is a Santa Clara, California-based startup focused on AI-native data loss prevention (DLP) and governance for enterprise AI interactions. The company was founded in 2024 and came out of stealth in April 2025 with $50 million in funding. Mayfield Fund and Menlo Ventures led the round.

Strategic investors include Celesta Capital and security industry leaders: former Palo Alto Networks CEO Mark McLaughlin, former Symantec CEO Greg Clark, current Intel CEO and Walden International Chairman Lip-Bu Tan, and former Zscaler Chief Strategy Officer Manoj Apte.

Aurascape’s platform provides visibility, monitoring, and control over how employees and applications use generative AI systems, whether approved or shadow tools. It detects unauthorized AI tool usage, blocks unsafe prompts or responses in real time, and coaches users toward compliant behavior. Its technology includes deep protocol decoders for thousands of AI applications and multimodal data classification models capable of identifying sensitive information across text, images, audio, video, and code. Policies adjust dynamically based on context, user permissions, and risk profiles, allowing organizations to prevent inappropriate data sharing or risky actions without relying solely on static rule sets.

A key focus area is supporting regulatory compliance frameworks including HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, GLBA, CCPA, and NIST by continuously classifying and protecting sensitive information across all AI interactions. Aurascape positions itself as a long-tail AI security provider, addressing the rapidly expanding set of niche and emerging AI tools that traditional DLP and security products fail to monitor effectively.