Secure Gen AI apps for the modern enterprise
Title: Unbound Security: Allow employees to use AI tools without fear of data loss | Y Combinator

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### Allow employees to use AI tools without fear of data loss



Unbound Security

Founded:2023

Team Size:4

Location:San Francisco

### Active Founders

### Rajaram Srinivasan, Founder

Building data security for Gen AI. Prev: Palo Alto Networks, Adobe | MIT Alum



### Vignesh Subbiah, Founder

Cofounder at UnboundSecurity. Building cyber security for gen AI apps. Previously engineering at Shogun, Tophatter, and Adobe Systems.



### Company Launches

[### 🚀 Unbound Security - Secure Gen AI apps for enterprise](

### TL;DR

[Unbound Security]( prevents leakage of sensitive information when employees use Gen AI applications. For example, we intervene and stop when someone pastes a code snippet that contains a secret key into ChatGPT while troubleshooting.

The problem
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1.  **AI faces enterprise adoption roadblocks**: Despite Gen AI boosting productivity, many enterprises remain wary. Even in 2024, over 1 in 4 organizations have banned all AI apps, keeping them off-limits to employees.
2.  **AI app sprawl:** There are now well over 1,000 Gen AI apps, and many have questionable security practices. These cool “tools” continue to worry CSOs (Chief Security Officers) as employees are already using many of these to get work done.
3.  **Data privacy remains a top concern**: Over 55% of all prompts contain some form of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). This is not only a privacy nightmare, but also pushes enterprises out of compliance with multiple regulations such as PCI, SOX and HIPAA.

Our solution
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1.  **AI app discovery:** We discover and catalog all AI apps in use by employees and help security teams understand the risk levels of each of these apps.
    
    
    
2.  **Granular application access policies:** Rather than block all apps by default, we allow enterprises to allow some trustworthy AI apps and steer users towards those. For example, if your org invested in Chat GPT enterprise, we help get the most out of that investment by encouraging people to use that instead of a random cool file summarizer on the internet.
    
    
    
3.  **Protect data leakage:** On the allowed AI apps, Unbound monitors all prompts and also blocks users from sharing sensitive information based on the configured AI usage policy.
    
    
    

Our ask and offer
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1.  If you know a company that has blocked the usage of AI apps, we can help your friends use these apps with IT consent. Please drop us a note at [founders@unboundsecurity.ai](mailto:founders@unboundsecurity.ai).
2.  If you’d like to understand what people are using AI for within your org, and stay compliant, we are happy to offer our AI visibility platform for free to any YC company. Let’s [chat more over a meeting.](

The team
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[Vignesh]( and [Raj]( worked together at Adobe on the same Engineering team for 5+ years, solving some of the most complex problems in the digital advertising space - The team built sub-millisecond latency systems that processed billions of advertising artifacts. Vignesh went on to be founding engineer at Tophatter and an early engineer at [Shogun (YC S18)]( Raj has built data security products for Palo Alto Networks and Imperva prior to Unbound where he observed the struggles of data security programs in large enterprises.


