Fiddler AI

Fiddler AI

Responsible AI platform for model monitoring

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.

About Fiddler AI

Simplify's Rating
Why Fiddler AI is rated
B-
Rated B 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

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What believers are saying

  • Fiddler raised $30 million on 2026-01-27, bringing total funding to $100 million.
  • AWS named Fiddler a Pattern Partner in 2025, expanding enterprise distribution in 2026.
  • June 2026 releases added GenAI trace retention controls, Trace Explorer, and bulk deletion.

What critics are saying

  • Datadog's 2026 Agent Observability and Bits AI attack Fiddler's core category directly.
  • Reddit-linked 2026 renewal threads cite annual quotes rising 40 to 80 percent.
  • If Lumeus integration stalls, Fiddler loses its only runtime-to-development control-plane wedge.

What makes Fiddler AI unique

  • Fiddler spans coding-agent development and production after Lumeus acquisition on 2026-04-10.
  • Its Centor Models run in customer environments, reducing external data leakage and API dependence.
  • The platform unifies observability, guardrails, and audit evidence across agents, traces, and spans.

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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
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$50M
Medium
$62M
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$100M
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Benefits

Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

-1%
AI Governance
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
Fiddler AI Raises $50M in Series B

Dallas Venture Capital has invested in Palo Alto-based Fiddler AI's Series B funding, which now totals $50M. Fiddler AI raised an additional $18.6M to enhance its AI observability and safety platform, enabling enterprises to deploy trustworthy LLM and ML applications. New investors include Cisco Investments, Capgemini, and Samsung Next. Fiddler aims to set standards for transparency and accountability in AI.

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