Fiddler AI vs Prompt Security

Fiddler AI is an AI observability and security platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, by Krishna Gade, Amit Paka, and Manoj Cheenath. Fiddler focuses on production monitoring — drift, performance, fairness, explainability — and has extended into LLM observability and security for compound and agentic AI systems. Fiddler raised a $30M Series C in January 2026, bringing total funding to $100M.

Prompt Security is a Tel Aviv-based AI security company founded in August 2023 by Itamar Golan (CEO) and Lior Drihem (CTO), both alumni of Israel's elite Unit 8200 with prior experience at Check Point and Orca Security. The company provides an enterprise platform for securing all generative AI interactions — covering employee AI tool usage (shadow AI discovery, data protection), homegrown AI applications (prompt injection defense, output filtering), AI code assistants, and agentic AI security including MCP gateway protection. Prompt Security is a core contributor to the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications. The company raised $23M prior to its acquisition by SentinelOne, which was completed on September 5, 2025. Prompt Security continues to operate as a standalone platform and product brand within SentinelOne's Singularity platform. CRN named it a 2025 Stellar Startup in Security.