New York, New York, April 3, 2025 – Yrikka has released the first public API for the Agent Red Team of Visual AI assets. The release comes shortly after Irikka, who successfully raised the $1.5 million pre-seed fundraising round led by Focal and Garuda Ventures.
The company was founded by Dr. Kia Khezeli (CEO) and Dr. John Karantari (CTO). The duo recognized the lack of tools and expertise required for organizations to build trust in AI systems before and after deployment. Yrikka’s platform allows decision makers to assess reliability and detect vulnerabilities in visual AI assets through automated testing, context assessments and adversarial red teams. This platform helps reduce risk in dynamic environments and improve AI performance.
“We saw firsthand how powerful and unpredictable AI models are, especially in mission-critical environments,” Khezeli said. “Yrikka’s goal is to enable organizations to deploy AI with confidence by providing intuitive tools that will help decision makers understand when and how much they can rely on AI assets.”
KeseriYrikka’s approach has already attracted famous interest. The company has secured multiple contracts with the Department of Defense, including $1.9 million in contracts with the US Army to automate the testing and evaluation of computer vision models for defense applications. With the growing foothold in various high-stakes sectors, Irikka has established herself as a key player in AI safety and reliability, especially for government and corporate customers involved in the influential consequences of deploying AI assets in the real world.
The company aims to address the critical needs of the AI ecosystem. It ensures that the AI model is not only functional, but also safe, reliable, and resilient to changes in operational contexts, including hostile threats. The platform helps industries where AI decisions must be robust, from autonomous defense systems to clinical diagnosis and industrial automation. By integrating synthetic data generation, hostile red teams and fine-tuning capabilities, Yrikka significantly reduces the time required to validate AI models from months to minutes.
Arpan Punyani, co-founder and general partner of Garuda Ventures, said: “Yrikka is building a key suite of tools to help decision makers implement these models with confidence in their production. We are excited to partner with such an ambitious team that addresses the key issues of AI.”
“As AI moves into the physical world, trust and reliability are important,” said Daniel Darling, managing partner at Focal. “Yrikka offers the most rigorous and scalable vision model tests. Customer recruitment proves.”
About Yrikka: Yrikka’s mission is to ensure that AI is consistent with human values in the real world. Yrikka is a leading Visual Ai Red Teaming startup that builds towards a future where human and AI agents can automatically ensure the reliability of their visual models in the relevant context of use. Yrikka helps decision makers establish trust in AI systems before and after deployment by enabling rapid, automated assessments tailored to a specific operational context. For more information, please visit https://yrikka.com/.
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