What Trust3 AI does

Trust3 AI is an enterprise software company that provides a unified agentic governance platform for governing AI agents and the data they access. Founded in 2016 by the engineering team behind Apache Ranger and Apache Atlas (the open-source access control and metadata standards used across thousands of regulated enterprise data environments), the company was originally known as Privacera and rebranded to Trust3 AI in March 2026 to reflect its strategic pivot from data governance to AI agent governance. The platform is built on three architectural layers: a One Control Plane providing a single governance surface, a Unified Trust Layer that sits between every agent and the data, APIs, tools, and other agents it touches, and AI-Native Metadata and Context that carries agent identity, declared purpose, data lineage, and live policy state with every enforcement decision.

The product suite spans core data access governance (row-, column-, and tag-based access control across 50+ data platforms including Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and Iceberg), agent-specific capabilities (Agent Discovery, Agent Observability, Agent Security with Purpose-Based Access Control), protocol-layer security (MCP Security and A2A Security), and AI-driven features including Trust Agents for autonomous policy enforcement, Trustscore for 0-100 agent risk ratings, AgentDOS for token consumption monitoring, and a Governance Intelligence Agent (GIA) for natural language queries. The company sells through direct enterprise field sales with annual and multi-year SaaS subscriptions, targeting Fortune 500 enterprises in regulated industries including financial services, healthcare, retail, media, and technology. Named customers include Apple, Comcast, Nike, Intuit, Amgen, Northwestern Mutual, Autodesk, Zillow, iFood, and SunLife, with reported outcomes including up to 100x policy reduction, 84% reduction in audit preparation time, and 10x acceleration of AI deployment timelines.

Trust3 AI has raised $63.5M in total funding from six enterprise-infrastructure venture capital firms: Insight Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Battery Ventures, Accel, Cervin Ventures, and Point72 Ventures. The company maintains strategic partnerships across all major cloud and data platforms (Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, NVIDIA, Salesforce, ServiceNow), with formal program memberships in NVIDIA Inception, Snowflake Startup Accelerator, and Databricks Built On Partner. The company is positioned ahead of the August 2026 EU AI Act enforcement deadline as a category-defining provider for AI agent governance, with Forrester Research citing the company as the exemplar implementation of its December 2025 Agent Control Plane category definition.

Name

Trust3 AI

Legal name

Trust3 AI

Website

https://trust3.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Trust3 AI provides a unified agentic governance platform that discovers, observes, and secures AI agents across enterprise data and cloud environments. Founded by the creators of Apache Ranger and Atlas, it serves Fortune 500 enterprises in financial services, healthcare, technology, and regulated industries with EU AI Act, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI and Data Governance Software

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Regulatory Readiness & Audit Automation (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001) (HDAAAMAE), AI Privacy Engineering & Data Governance (PII, consent, retention) (HDAAAKAB), Model Monitoring, Accountability & Incident Management (HDAAAMAF)

Keywords

• AI agent governance
• Data access control
• AI security platform
• Regulatory compliance software
• Enterprise governance platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Newark

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Subscription-based pricing model for enterprise governance platform. Annual and multi-year contracts. Platform includes data access control, agent discovery, observability, and security modules.

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Trust3 AI provides an enterprise SaaS platform for unified agentic governance of data and AI. The platform discovers AI agents across frameworks and clouds, enforces purpose-based access control (PBAC) at the moment of agent action, provides tamper-evident observability, and maps activity to regulatory frameworks including EU AI Act, HIPAA, and GDPR. It is delivered via annual or multi-year enterprise subscriptions with native integrations across 50+ data platforms.

Product overview

Trust3 AI offers a unified agentic governance platform designed for enterprise data and AI governance. The platform operates as a single Control Plane powered by a Unified Trust Layer, built on AI-Native Metadata and Context. The core architecture consists of three interdependent components: One Control Plane (the enforcement surface for all agents), the Unified Trust Layer (sits between agents and data/APIs/tools/other agents), and AI-Native Metadata and Context (carries agent identity, declared purpose, data lineage, and policy state). The platform includes modular capabilities: Data Access for fine-grained access control; Agent Discovery for finding shadow AI; Agent Observability for full-fidelity traces; Agent Security with purpose-based access control (PBAC); MCP Security for Model Context Protocol protection; and A2A Security for agent-to-agent delegation chain security. Key products include Trust Agents (autonomous policy enforcement), Trustscore (real-time AI agent risk ratings), AgentDOS (token consumption monitoring), and the Governance Intelligence Agent (GIA) for natural language governance queries. The platform was formerly known as Privacera and was founded by the engineers behind Apache Ranger and Apache Atlas.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Unified Trust Layer Platform Core platform that sits between every AI agent and everything it touches (data, APIs, tools, other agents), enforcing policy at the moment of action before data moves. Vendor-neutral architecture built on AI-Native Metadata and Context, with One Control Plane for unified governance across every framework, cloud, and data source.
• Data Access Fine-grained data access control preventing privilege drift with unified access across every cloud, agent, and data platform. Provides row-level, column-level, and tag-based access control with one policy enforced natively across Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and 50+ platforms without proxy hops.
• Agent Discovery Automatic discovery of every AI agent running across enterprise environments. Connects to platforms and scans CloudTrail logs, platform APIs, SDK activity, and audit trails. Discovers shadow AI and assigns Trust Scores to every discovered agent, with live inventory showing platform, owner, identity, data access, trust score, and status.
• Agent Observability Tamper-evident audit and replay across every prompt, tool call, and A2A hop. Captures telemetry at the protocol layer outside the agent process with identity propagation through A2A and MCP hops, incident replay, SIEM and SOC integration, and behavioral drift detection.
• Agent Security Purpose-based access control for the agentic era. Access scoped by declared purpose evaluated in real-time before data access, with real-time runtime guardrails, kill switch for pausing/quarantining agents, and audit-ready remediation workflow. Secures MCP connections and A2A interactions.
• MCP Security Runtime security for Model Context Protocol-based agent connectivity. Treats every MCP server as untrusted by default with server verification, tool scoping and content firewall, credential isolation with RFC 8693 token exchange, per-agent allowlists, and full tamper-evident MCP traffic logging.
• A2A Security Identity, scope, and audit across every agent-to-agent handoff. Enforces verified identity at every delegation, applies strict scope boundaries preventing unauthorized access, provides automatic PII/PHI/PCI redaction on outbound messages, and delegation chain traceability up to three hops deep with Trust Score-based reputation-aware routing.
• Trust Agents Autonomous policy enforcement and decisioning layer that operationalizes data and AI governance in real-time. Embeds policy evaluation directly into data and AI execution workflows, replacing manual reviews with automated enforcement. Includes Discover, Catalog, Policy, and Review agents, and ensures compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and EU AI Act.
• Trustscore Real-time, quantified risk ratings for AI agents with a 0-100 grade across four dimensions: Security (35%), Scope Adherence (25%), Policy Compliance (25%), and Behavioral Baseline (15%). Trust bands: TRUSTED, MONITORED, AT RISK, UNTRUSTED. Designed for EU AI Act compliance.
• AgentDOS Enterprise control plane providing full observability into AI agents with real-time token consumption monitoring across platforms including Databricks Agent Bricks and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Addresses enterprise AI governance and cost control by identifying scope drift and preventing budget overruns.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100x policy reduction - Fortune 500 customers reduced ~2,000 catalog policies to ~20 dynamic policies
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration34 records

AI capability10 records

Feature13 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• DatabricksflagshipTechnology or Integration · 18 June 2026Integration with Databricks Agent Bricks providing enterprises with an independent trust layer for AI agents offering unified visibility, governance, and control across multiple platforms, models, and orchestration frameworks. Also plans integration with Databricks' open-source OmniAgent project.
• NVIDIA Inception ProgramcoreTechnology or Integration · 15 June 2026Trust3 AI accepted into NVIDIA Inception program, gaining access to GPU infrastructure, developer resources, and technical training to power its enterprise data and AI governance platform. Validates that three major AI and data platforms have aligned behind Trust3 AI's unified trust layer architecture.
• SnowflakeflagshipTechnology or Integration · 1 June 2026Integration with Snowflake AI Data Cloud to strengthen governance for enterprise AI agents and improve access control for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Combines Trust3 AI's policy-driven Data Products governance with Snowflake's managed MCP server capabilities.
• Dell TechnologiesflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 April 2026Strategic collaboration to deliver secure, governed AI-ready data lakehouse infrastructure integrating Trust3 AI's unified governance platform into Dell's storage architecture (ECS, ObjectScale, PowerScale). Targets regulated industries including financial services, healthcare, and public sector.
• Google CloudflagshipTechnology or Integration · 21 April 2026Native integration with Google Cloud's agentic AI stack including Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Vertex AI Agent Builder to deliver unified data and AI governance for enterprise agentic applications. Enables policy enforcement, observability, and compliance for multi-agent systems using Gemini and other models.
• Celebal TechnologiesminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 November 2025Partnership to develop trustworthy AI systems for enterprises, focusing on integrating Trust3 AI's trust layer with Celebal's Agent Garage platform. Aims to improve AI governance, compliance, and reliability across industries including manufacturing, finance, and healthcare.
• SalesforcecoreTechnology or Integration · 14 October 2025Integration with Salesforce Agentforce to deliver comprehensive AI accuracy and trust within enterprise environments. Initial analysis indicates Salesforce's AI achieves approximately 93% conversation accuracy when governed by Trust3 AI.
• AWS (Amazon Web Services)coreTechnology or IntegrationTechnology partnership providing unified, transparent data security, access control, and AI governance across AWS environment including Bedrock.
• Microsoft AzurecoreTechnology or IntegrationTechnology partnership providing unified data security, access control, and AI governance for Azure cloud platform including Copilot Studio.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Collibra: Collibra is an enterprise data intelligence and governance platform providing data cataloging, lineage, access control, and policy management. Trust3 AI lists Collibra as a technology partner and competes for the same data-governance budget, with Trust3 extending the proposition into AI agent governance.
• BigID: BigID is a data intelligence platform for privacy, security, and governance — providing data discovery, classification, access controls, and AI governance capabilities. It competes with Trust3 AI on data classification, policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance across hybrid data estates.
• Immuta: Immuta provides data access control and security through attribute-based access control (ABAC) and policy automation across cloud data platforms. Trust3 AI's PBAC is a direct evolution of the same ABAC framing Immuta pioneered, making it a tightly comparable peer in data-access governance for analytics and now AI workloads.
• OneTrust: OneTrust is a privacy, security, and AI governance platform offering consent management, data discovery, and increasingly AI/ML model risk and compliance tooling. It overlaps with Trust3 AI on EU AI Act readiness, automated evidence collection, and enterprise data governance, and competes for the same CISO/CPO budget.
• Alation: Alation is a data catalog and governance platform that provides data discovery, lineage, and policy management for enterprise data teams. It is comparable to Trust3 AI on the data-governance side (and integrated with it on Collibra-style catalog interoperability), and is expanding into AI/ML governance as well.
• Securiti: Securiti is the closest direct competitor — a unified data security, privacy, and AI governance platform offering sensitive data discovery, access governance, and AI risk/compliance automation across cloud and SaaS environments. Like Trust3 AI, it positions around EU AI Act, GDPR, and HIPAA readiness with a unified control plane across data systems.

Emerging players

• Vanta: Vanta automates security and compliance evidence collection for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and increasingly AI-related frameworks. It is comparable as a compliance automation peer — Trust3 AI's one-click evidence packs for EU AI Act/HIPAA/SOC 2 overlap with Vanta's automated audit posture, though Vanta does not provide data/agent layer enforcement.
• Atlan: Atlan is a modern data catalog and governance platform built for cloud data stacks with strong lineage, collaboration, and policy features. It is comparable as a next-generation data governance peer that overlaps with Trust3 AI on catalog and access policy, though it is earlier in agentic governance specifically.

Broad incumbents

• Snowflake Horizon Catalog: Snowflake's native Horizon Catalog provides data governance, lineage, and access policy within the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. It is a broad-incumbent peer because Snowflake could natively absorb much of Trust3 AI's federated catalog and policy enforcement — and is in fact a Flagship technology partner, illustrating the bundling risk.
• Microsoft Purview: Microsoft Purview is the hyperscaler-native unified data governance and security platform integrated with the Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and Copilot ecosystem. It is a broad incumbent competitor because Microsoft could embed agent governance into Purview+Copilot Studio, threatening the independence of Trust3 AI's unified trust layer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance8 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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