HIKMAAI S.R.L.

What HIKMAAI S.R.L. does

HikmaAI S.r.l. is a privately held Italian cybersecurity company — incorporated as a Società a responsabilità limitata with registered office in Pula (Cagliari), Sardinia, and registered capital of €10,000 i.v. — that builds a real-time agentic security platform for organizations deploying AI agents in production. The platform is structured as a three-layer architecture (Observe, Control, Govern) centered on an Intelligent Gateway deployed at the network boundary as a Kubernetes sidecar, standalone Docker container, or iptables-fronted transparent proxy, requiring no SDK and no code changes to existing systems. It secures four agent categories — API agents, web-automation agents, MCP agents, and skill agents — with sub-30ms inline decisions, ML classifiers for threat detection, PII filtering across 11 languages, per-agent policy enforcement via a CEL-based policy engine, Ed25519-signed audit logs, and a trademarked trust benchmark called HikmaScore™ tested against 50+ attack vectors.\n\nThe company sells through annual subscriptions on three tiers (Observe, Control, Govern) plus four add-ons (Red Teaming Pack, EU AI Act Audit Pack, HikmaScore Public API, and Collective Intelligence Network), with quote-based pricing and no public price points. Its go-to-market combines enterprise direct sales — 30-minute demos, tailored threat models, and 48-hour proposal turnaround to CISOs, CTOs, CIOs, and AI builders — with a four-track channel program (Referral, Reseller/VAR, Advisory/Boutique, Strategic SI) and OEM/white-label options. Primary customers are regulated enterprises in banking, insurance, healthcare, energy, telco, and manufacturing, with secondary segments in public sector and AI builders/ISVs/OEMs, and the product is explicitly positioned around the August 2, 2026 EU AI Act enforcement deadline, mapping controls to Articles 6-52, Article 12, and Article 14.\n\nThe founding team is drawn from Amazon, Deloitte, Spotify, and Emirates, with Co-Founder & CTO Mauro Medda as the single publicly named executive. Public funding appears partially grant-backed, as evidenced by EU, Italian Republic, Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, and Sardegna Ricerche logos on the corporate site, and the company's LinkedIn, X, and GitHub presence indicate an active but early commercial and developer-relations footprint. No revenue, headcount, customer logos, equity funding rounds, patents, or awards are disclosed in the available data, placing the firm firmly at the pre-revenue or very-early-commercial stage.

Name

HIKMAAI S.R.L.

Legal name

HikmaAI S.r.l.

Website

https://hikmaai.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

HikmaAI S.r.l. is an Italian cybersecurity company that builds a real-time, network-boundary agentic security platform (Observe, Control, Govern tiers with an Intelligent Gateway) for regulated enterprises, public sector, and AI builders deploying AI agents under EU AI Act requirements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Agent Security Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Secure Model Deployment & Runtime Protection (sandboxing, isolation) (HDAAAKAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG), AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF), Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) (HDAEAJAH)

Keywords

• Agentic AI security
• AI agent monitoring
• LLM security platform
• AI compliance tooling
• Prompt injection detection

Headquarters

HQ city

Pula

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscription (Observe, Control, Govern Tiers): Three-tier platform subscription model (Observe, Control, Govern) with tier-based pricing. Each tier includes everything in the tier below it. Add-ons available on top of any tier including Red Teaming Pack, EU AI Act Audit Pack, HikmaScore Public API, and Collective Intelligence Network. Annual billing cadence. All tiers run on the same platform.
2. Professional Services: Embedded Security Partnership and OEM engagements are scoped together with commercial models that adapt to the partner's GTM motion. Advisory and boutique partners retain 100% of professional services revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

HikmaAI provides a Real-Time Agentic Security platform deployed as an Intelligent Gateway at the network boundary to secure AI agents (API agents, web-automation agents, MCP agents, skill agents) in production. The platform is structured in three tiers (Observe, Control, Govern) that deliver agent inventory and Shadow AI discovery, prompt injection detection, PII filtering across 11 languages, MCP blast-radius containment, adaptive red-teaming, and cryptographic audit logs for EU AI Act compliance. Deployment takes under 30 minutes via Kubernetes sidecar, Docker container, or transparent iptables proxy with no SDK or code changes required.

Product overview

HikmaAI is a Real-Time Agentic Security platform providing network-boundary security for AI agents in production. The platform follows a three-layer architecture—Observe (discovery and visibility), Control (real-time threat blocking), and Govern (compliance and proof of behavior)—deployed as a single binary via the Intelligent Gateway. The core product includes HikmaScore™ quantitative trust benchmarking, the Private Agent Connector (PAC) for programmatic access, and MCP blast-radius containment. Pricing is structured in three tiers (Observe, Control, Govern) with four optional add-ons: Red Teaming Pack, EU AI Act Audit Pack, HikmaScore™ Public API, and Collective Intelligence Network. Deployment options include Self-hosted, SaaS, and Air-gapped. Framework-agnostic compatibility with LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenClaw, and AutoGen.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• HikmaScore™: A quantitative AI trust benchmark, continuously tested against 50+ attack vectors, used as an enterprise sales accelerator and trust certification for AI builders.
• Observe
• Control
• Govern
• Intelligent Gateway

Products and services

• HikmaAI Platform Real-Time Agentic Security platform with three-tier architecture: Observe (agent inventory, shadow AI discovery, LLM observability), Control (prompt injection detection, PII filtering, MCP containment), and Govern (policy engine, identity trust decay, cryptographic attestations). Single binary deployment via Kubernetes sidecar or Docker. Built for regulated enterprises, AI builders/ISVs/OEMs, and public sector organizations.
• Intelligent Gateway Network boundary security gateway that intercepts all agent communications. Provides sub-30ms latency inline decisions, 20 controls, 11-language support, and ML classifiers for threat detection. Agents call the gateway instead of providers directly.
• HikmaScore™ Quantitative AI trust benchmark continuously tested against 50+ attack vectors. Produces 0-100 risk scores per agent and organization. Available as board export and as Public API for external publication as enterprise trust certification.
• Private Agent Connector (PAC) Scoped API key system (hik_*) for programmatic integration with HikmaAI. Keys can be pinned to specific agents and revoked without touching user authentication. Strict organization scoping by construction.
• Red Teaming Pack Add-on providing unlimited red teaming runs per month covering LLM, Agent, Web, and MCP attack vectors. Activates full adversarial testing on any platform tier.
• EU AI Act Audit Pack Add-on offering unlimited full compliance reports per year and unlimited Quick Scans. Designed for compliance teams with quarterly audit cycles.
• HikmaScore™ Public API Add-on enabling external publication of HikmaScore™ as AI trust certification. Transforms the score into a market-facing trust signal for enterprise sales acceleration.
• Collective Intelligence Network Add-on providing federated threat sharing across the HikmaAI customer base. Includes priority threat feed and monthly intelligence report.

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

AI capability10 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Zscaler: Zscaler is a Zero Trust networking and security leader extending into AI traffic inspection and prompt protection, overlapping with HikmaAI's Intelligent Gateway at the network-boundary layer.
• CrowdStrike: CrowdStrike is a leading endpoint and cloud security vendor extending into AI security with Charlotte AI and agent-runtime protections, competing with HikmaAI for CISO budgets inside large enterprises.
• Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a large, established cybersecurity platform that has launched AI Runtime Security and broader AI/ML security offerings, addressing the same enterprise buyers as HikmaAI from a much broader portfolio.
• Cloudflare: Cloudflare offers AI-inference security and prompt-injection protection within its broader edge security platform, providing an incumbent alternative to HikmaAI's network-boundary approach for AI traffic.
• Cisco (AI Defense / Robust Intelligence): Cisco acquired Robust Intelligence and launched AI Defense for AI application security, bringing enterprise-scale distribution and incumbency to the same problem HikmaAI targets.

Direct peers

• Prompt Armor: Prompt Armor specializes in LLM and prompt-injection security, directly competing with HikmaAI's Control tier features for prompt injection detection, jailbreak blocking, and data leakage prevention.
• HiddenLayer: HiddenLayer delivers an AI security platform protecting ML models and LLM-powered applications across the lifecycle — a near-direct comparison to HikmaAI's Observe/Control/Govern stack for enterprise AI deployments.
• Lakera: Lakera provides AI security for LLM applications, including prompt injection protection (Gandalf series) and AI firewalling — directly competing with HikmaAI's Intelligent Gateway on the same regulated enterprise buyer persona.
• CalypsoAI: CalypsoAI offers AI security testing, red-teaming, and policy enforcement for generative AI deployments — overlapping directly with HikmaAI's adaptive red-teaming, OWASP LLM coverage, and EU AI Act compliance features.
• Noma Security: Noma Security focuses on AI application and agent security and governance, addressing the same agentic AI risk surface and EU AI Act readiness themes that HikmaAI positions against.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hikmaai
• Xx.com/HikmaAi_
• GitHubgithub.com/hikmaai

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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