Lakera
Zurich, Switzerland
Lakera provides an AI-native security platform for generative AI applications and autonomous agents. Lakera Guard offers real-time runtime threat detection and prevention against prompt injection, data leakage, and jailbreaks, while Lakera Red performs automated AI red-teaming to test LLM and agent deployments before and after they go into production. In 2025 Lakera was acquired by Check Point Software Technologies and now forms the base of Check Point's Global Center of Excellence for AI Security, continuing to operate under the Lakera brand within that portfolio.
- Headquarters
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Founded
- 2021
- Website
- www.lakera.ai/
Notable facts
- Founded in 2021 by David Haber (CEO), Dr. Mateo Rojas-Carulla, and Dr. Matthias Kraft.
- Created 'Gandalf,' a free public prompt-injection training game that has drawn over 1 million players and generated more than 80 million adversarial prompts used to inform its threat-detection models.
- Acquired by Check Point Software Technologies in a deal reported at approximately $300 million (terms not officially disclosed by Check Point), announced September 2025.
- Dual-headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland and San Francisco, California per Check Point's acquisition announcement.
Service categories
Pricing
Pricing not publicly disclosed on the vendor's site. Typical for B2B AI-governance engagements, which are usually quoted per scope.
Case study
Case study describing how named client Dropbox used Lakera Guard to catch the vast majority of prompt injection and jailbreak attempts against its GenAI-powered features while maintaining real-time response performance. Read the case study →
Sources. This profile is compiled from public reference data, WebSearch-verified againstsource 1 · source 2 · source 3. Data as of 2026-07-13. See methodology.
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