Trent AI raises £10M seed led by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital to secure AI agents
April 7, 2026
London-based agentic security startup Trent AI has emerged from stealth with a £10M ($13M) seed round led by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital, with participation from senior figures at OpenAI, Spotify, Databricks and AWS.
Enterprises are rolling out AI agents and autonomous workflows faster than their security frameworks can keep up, and many development teams have no security model designed for agentic systems. Risks such as prompt injection, tool misuse, unintended actions, data exfiltration and privilege escalation fall outside the scope of conventional static-rules security tools. Trent AI is targeting that gap.
The company's platform is a multi-agent security solution that pairs specialised AI agents across the agent lifecycle. One group identifies exploits in code and infrastructure, another ranks vulnerabilities by severity, a third proposes remediation steps, and a fourth monitors changes over time. A proprietary judgement layer and reinforcement learning underpin the system, which integrates with development workflows to apply and track fixes. Design partners including Canopy, Commscentre, ML@Cam, Qbeast and Weblogic are running the platform.
Trent AI was founded in 2025 by Eno Thereska (CEO), formerly a Distinguished Engineer at Alcion, AWS and Confluent; Neil Lawrence (Chief Scientist), DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge and previously Director of ML at Amazon; and Zhenwen Dai (CTO), formerly a Machine Learning Scientist at AWS and Senior Research Manager at Spotify. The company is a partner member of OWASP and a startup partner with Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Venture Network, and contributes a security agent to the open-source platform OpenClaw.
Angel investors in the round include Joaquin Quiñonero Candela of OpenAI, Avinash Bhat of AWS, Ippokratis Pandis of Databricks and former Spotify VP Tony Jebara. The seed funding will be used to extend the security agents, expand engineering and grow the design partner and customer base. Cambridge Innovation Capital partner Ian Lane said the firm believes Trent AI is well placed to define a new category of infrastructure to govern, observe and enforce safe agent behaviour.
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