Lakera AI raises USD 20m Series A financing

Niederer Kraft Frey advised Lakera on its USD 20 million equity Series A financing led by Atomico, with participation from Citi Ventures, Dropbox, redalpine, and other investors participating.

Lakera is the leading real-time GenAI security company. Lakera empowers enterprises to accelerate their secure adoption of GenAI. Continuously evolving intelligence fed by Lakera’s research team and community intelligence, including over a million Gandalf players, lets enterprises confidently deploy high-performance GenAI applications. Lakera was founded by David Haber, Matthias Kraft, and Mateo Rojas Carulla. The company has offices in Zurich and San Francisco.

The NKF team was co-led by Corporate/M&A partners Andrea Giger and Philip Spoerlé, working with associate Manuel Hirlinger and junior associates Manuel Constam, Norina Frey and Robin Weissenrieder (all Corporate/M&A).