Rigor AI

What Rigor AI does

Rigor AI is an early-stage cybersecurity company that builds a defense management platform using formal mathematical verification methods to deliver preemptive, complete, continuous, and verifiable risk mitigation against known attacks. Founded in 2024 and operational since January 2025, the company targets CISOs, CIOs, security infrastructure teams, and security operations teams at Fortune 500 enterprises, MSSPs, federal agencies, critical infrastructure operators, and regulated industry entities. The platform is delivered via subscription through direct enterprise field sales and through AWS and Google Cloud Marketplaces, with active engagement across North America, Europe, MENA, APAC, and ASEAN regions.

The founding team is the company's most prominent asset: CEO Sundar Iyer is a four-time founder whose prior companies (Candid Systems, Memoir Systems, Nemo Systems, SwitchOn Networks) were acquired by Cisco and PMC-Sierra and collectively generated over $1 billion in revenue; he holds 30+ patents and a Stanford PhD. CPO Navneet Yadav previously led Advanced Wildfire product at Palo Alto Networks and co-founded CloudGenix (acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2020). Head of Engineering Kollivakkam Raghavan led planet-scale infrastructure for Google Drive and Access Policy Manager at F5 Networks. The team claims 700+ years of combined industry experience and prior responsibility for securing data center, enterprise, and access networks for over 4,000 customers.

Rigor is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with engineering offices in Bengaluru and Pune, India. The company has disclosed approximately $9.6 million across two funding rounds in December 2024 and May 2025, backed by 12+ institutional and cybersecurity funds (including Vela Partners) and 25+ Silicon Valley executives and angels. It holds SOC 2 Type II compliance, operates a public Trust Center, and reports 20+ design partners including trillion-dollar AI companies, hyperscalers, sovereign banks, telecom providers, and a leading state university.

Name

Rigor AI

Legal name

Rigor AI Inc.

Website

https://rigor.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Rigor AI is an early-stage cybersecurity company that applies formal mathematical verification methods to provide provable, preemptive cyber defense management for enterprise CISOs, MSSPs, federal agencies, and critical infrastructure operators globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cybersecurity Defense Management Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Security Operations Center (SOC) as a Service (BPAEADAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Platforms (HDAAAMAA), Data Security & Privacy Managed Services (DLP/Encryption) (BPAEADAL)

Keywords

• Cybersecurity defense platform
• Formal verification security
• Enterprise cyber risk
• Security posture management
• Attack surface verification

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa Clara

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscription: Cybersecurity defense management platform delivered via subscription, available through direct enterprise engagement and cloud marketplaces.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Rigor AI builds and sells a cybersecurity defense management platform that applies formal mathematical verification techniques to deliver preemptive, complete, continuous, and verifiable risk mitigation against known cyber attacks. The platform is sold as a subscription to enterprise CISOs, CIOs, security infrastructure and operations teams at Fortune 500 companies, MSSPs, federal agencies, and critical infrastructure operators. It is also available through the AWS and Google Cloud Marketplaces for procurement convenience.

Product overview

Rigor AI offers a unified cybersecurity defense management platform built on mathematically rigorous — preemptive, complete, continuous, and verifiable — methodologies for provable risk mitigation. The platform is positioned for CISOs, CIOs, security infrastructure teams, and security operations teams. No distinct product names or modules are explicitly enumerated on the website.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rigor Cyber Defense Management Platform A unified, mathematically rigorous cybersecurity defense management platform that applies formal methods to deliver preemptive, complete, continuous, and verifiable risk mitigation against known attacks. Sold via subscription to enterprise CISOs, CIOs, security infrastructure teams, security operations teams, MSSPs, federal agencies, and critical infrastructure operators. Available through direct enterprise sales and via AWS and Google Cloud Marketplaces.

Quantifiable outcome

• Detects security findings impossible to detect with other tools
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• AWScoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRigor partners with AWS enabling enterprises to access products through AWS Marketplace for ease of procurement and delivery.
• Google CloudcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRigor partners with Google Cloud enabling enterprises to access products through Google Cloud Marketplace for ease of procurement and delivery.
• Design Partners (F500s, MSSP, Federal, Critical Infrastructure, Regulated Industry)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner20+ design partners and customers across Fortune 500 companies, MSSPs, federal agencies, critical infrastructure operators, and regulated industries including trillion-dollar AI companies, hyper scalers, sovereign banks, telecom entities, a leading state university, critical mobile communication providers, and nation states.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Palo Alto Networks: Largest pure-play cybersecurity platform; offers Strata, Prisma, and Cortex portfolios that overlap with Rigor's security defense management ambition. CPO Navneet Yadav was Head of Product for Advanced Wildfire at PANW, making this a directly comparable incumbent with shared talent DNA.
• CrowdStrike: Endpoint and cloud workload security leader with a large enterprise installed base and SOC-grade platform. Competes for the same CISO/CIO budget dollars and the same MSSP channel that Rigor targets.
• Wiz: Cloud security platform serving Fortune 500 enterprises via cloud marketplace distribution and a strong MSSP channel — a directly comparable go-to-market pattern to Rigor's cloud-marketplace-led enterprise motion.
• SentinelOne: AI-driven endpoint and cloud security platform competing for the same enterprise security operations budgets; relevant comparable on platform ambition and enterprise GTM.

Direct peers

• Snyk: Developer security platform focused on provable, continuous vulnerability detection across code, dependencies, and infrastructure — closest direct peer in terms of positioning around continuous, verifiable security assurance rather than periodic scanning.

Emerging players

• Tailscale: Secure networking platform using formal-methods-adjacent cryptographic identity (WireGuard) to deliver provable, zero-trust access — comparable as a developer-led formal-techniques security company targeting enterprise CISOs.
• Verkada: Cloud-managed enterprise security platform selling into Fortune 500, critical infrastructure, and regulated industries via a similar design-partner-to-enterprise flywheel — a relevant comparable on GTM motion and customer profile.
• Orca Security: Agentless cloud security platform with strong enterprise and MSSP channel presence, competing for the same cloud-security budget lines that Rigor's platform could pull from.
• Lacework: Cloud security platform offering continuous posture assessment and threat detection — overlaps with Rigor's continuous verification positioning in cloud security operations.
• Veza: Identity security platform applying formal access modeling to enterprise authorization — directly comparable in its use of formal methods / provable guarantees for security outcomes.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/rigor_os
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rigor-ai

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors12 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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