Fiddler AI

Fiddler AI

Responsible AI platform for model monitoring

About Fiddler AI

Simplify's Rating
Why Fiddler AI is rated
C+
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Consulting

Enterprise Software

AI & Machine Learning

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$93.8M

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

2018

Overview

Fiddler AI provides a Responsible AI Platform for enterprises to build and maintain trustworthy AI. It offers a SaaS suite that helps data science and MLOps teams monitor, explain, validate, and analyze machine learning models in production. The platform works by aggregating model telemetry and applying governance, bias detection, explanations, and performance analytics to ensure models stay reliable and fair at scale. What sets Fiddler AI apart is its strong focus on AI observability, governance, and explainability across production models, helping organizations meet regulatory requirements and reduce risk. The company’s goal is to help customers deploy AI that is transparent, compliant, and trustworthy, improving performance and customer trust while managing risk.

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What believers are saying

  • EU AI Act enforcement creates massive compliance demand for high-risk AI system monitoring.
  • 4x revenue growth in 18 months positions Fiddler as market leader in observability.
  • Series C funding enables expansion into healthcare, financial services, and insurance sectors.

What critics are saying

  • OpenAI's free built-in observability APIs for GPT models eliminate 70% of LLM monitoring revenue.
  • Arize AI's superior agentic tracing and RAG debugging erodes Fortune 500 customer base.
  • Honeycomb.io's open-source agent framework at 10x lower cost forces subscription price compression.

What makes Fiddler AI unique

  • Unified AI observability platform integrating model monitoring with data security via Lumeus acquisition.
  • Proprietary trust models and evaluations enable real-time governance for agentic AI systems.
  • Serves Fortune 500 organizations across regulated industries with compliance-focused control plane.

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Funding

Total Funding

$93.8M

Below

Industry Average

Funded Over

5 Rounds

Series C funding is usually for startups that are doing well and are looking for more money to fuel major growth, such as acquiring other companies, expanding into global markets, or launching new product lines. Investors typically include larger venture capital firms and private equity.
Series C Funding Comparison
Below Average

Industry standards

$50M
$40M
Figma
$50M
Medium
$62M
SeatGeek
$100M
Oura

Benefits

Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

0%
GetAIGovernance
Apr 10th, 2026
Fiddler AI acquires Lumeus AI to unify model monitoring and data security

Fiddler AI has acquired Lumeus AI, a cloud security startup specialising in data governance and zero-trust visibility, marking a shift towards unified AI observability and data security. The acquisition bridges the traditional gap between model performance monitoring and data privacy controls. Lumeus brings context-aware security that understands data sensitivity moving through AI pipelines. The combined platform will monitor both model health and data access simultaneously, enabling active governance features like automatic PII redaction and real-time access blocking. The move addresses growing enterprise pressures including shadow AI proliferation, regulatory demands, RAG complexity and data leakage incidents. By creating a unified control plane, Fiddler aims to automate compliance auditing and eliminate the friction between ML teams and security departments that has slowed AI deployment.

Business Wire
Feb 3rd, 2026
Fiddler Raises $30M Series C to Power the Control Plane for AI Agents

Fiddler AI, the enterprise AI observability and security platform, today announced it has raised $30 million in Series C funding led by RPS Ventures, with pa...

Fiddler AI
Feb 3rd, 2026
Announcing Series B and General Availability of Enterprise-Ready Fiddler | Fiddler AI Blog

Today, we’re excited to announce that enterprise-ready Fiddler is generally available, and we’ve raised $32 Million in Series B funding!

FinSMEs
Jan 27th, 2026
Fiddler AI Raises $30M in Series C Funding

Fiddler AI raises $30M in Series C funding. Fiddler AI, a Palo Alto, California-based provider of an enterprise AI observability and security platform, raised $30m in Series C funding. The round was led by RPS Ventures, with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lux Capital, Insight Partners, Capgemini Ventures, Dallas VC, Dentsu Ventures, and Mozilla Ventures, and new investors LG Technology Ventures, Benhamou Global Ventures, and LDV Partners. The company, which has secured $100m in total funding to date, intends to use the funds to expand operations and to scale its platform across regulated industries like healthcare, financial services, and insurance. Led by Co-founder and CEO Krishna Gade, Fiddler AI develops an all-in-one AI Control Plane that provides visibility, context, and control for AI agents, GenAI, and ML applications through proprietary trust models, evaluations, monitoring, and analytics capabilities. Its control plane for compound AI systems enables businesses to diagnose, explain, and govern their agentic decisions in real time. The company has grown its revenue more than 4x in the last 18 months, and achieved AWS Pattern Partners status. It serves Fortune 500 organizations.

Dallas Innovates
Dec 16th, 2024
Dallas Venture Capital Invests in Palo Alto-Based Fiddler AI's $50M Series B Round

Palo Alto, California-based Fiddler AI said its $18.6 million Series B extension brings the round's total funding to $50 million. The company said the funds will help it "continue to build momentum in AI observability and AI safety."

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