- AI startup uses LLMs to save enterprises from code catastrophes.
- It will use the capital to develop its product and build its team.
Generative AI startup – p0 – which helps prevent data breaches and software failures has raised $6.5 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Alchemy Ventures to help stop catastrophic software failures.
The term ‘p0’ in tech language refers to a nuclear-level event that can cause a platform to crash. This startup is helping tech teams find and eliminate these events when developers are writing code.
The startup’s proprietary technology leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify safety and security issues in software before it is ever run in a production environment and provides a single-click solution with no need for additional user configuration.
Security tools
Users can rapidly gain insight beyond what traditional rule-based static analysis tools can provide – with the ability to run code scans in just one-click.
The startup will use the capital to develop its product and build its team.
“Across the world, recent catastrophic software failures have led to real-world impact on human life and poor outcomes for businesses. At p0, we are determined to stop these safety and security issues affecting our society. Leveraging AI, we can go further than traditional software reliability and security tools to ensure society sees the benefits of technology with less risk,” Prakash Sanker, Co-Founder and CTO of p0, said.
As software becomes more intricate and pervasive, he said the importance of robust testing and reliability checks has never been more apparent. p0 is here to fundamentally change how organisations tackle these challenges head-on by harnessing the analytical power of AI.
“Our innovative approach empowers developers to write safer, more secure code thereby pre-empting serious run-time failures and exploits.”
Protecting clients
Kunal Agarwal, Co-Founder and CEO of p0, said that they are building a phenomenal team and product at p0, all focused around protecting the clients and their users the damage that software vulnerabilities and reliability bugs can cause.
Before founding p0, Sanker studied maths and computer science at Stanford University and worked at companies including Palantir.
Agarwal, an economics graduate from Harvard College, has previously founded a company backed by Lightspeed, Priority Vendor Technologies, which was acquired by Kansas-based C2FO in 2019.