Harbor emerges from stealth with $10m to measure and insure AI agent risk
The San Francisco start-up lists a firm's AI agents, scores their risk and insures what remains, backed by Base10, Abstract and 8VC.
Harbor has emerged from stealth with $10m to measure AI agent risk and insure resulting losses, giving regulated companies a way to control an exposure that insurers lack claims history to price.
Insurance Journal reported that the San Francisco start-up's seed round came from Base10 Partners, Abstract and 8VC. Harbor said it works with banks, insurers and other regulated companies in the United States, Europe and Latin America.
Harbor's platform first finds every AI agent used by a company and builds an inventory. It then measures each agent's operational, security and regulatory risk.
The framework maps to the NIST AI RMF, SR 26-2 and the EU AI Act, according to Insurance Journal. It checks decisions against the company's rules and blocks those that break them. The platform measures risk again when an agent's model, tools or data change.
Harbor then insures the risk left after those controls.
The company says an AI agent can repeat a mistake, possibly thousands of times, before somebody spots it. Harbor also says insurers do not yet have the claims history needed to price the exposure, while some are excluding AI from existing policies.
"Companies need to understand the risk of their agents, and at the current pace of adoption and development, assessing the risk at a specific point in time seems useless. There is a need for an innovative solution for managing the risk in real time," said Jesús Santos, co-founder of Harbor.
Santos founded Harbor with Daniel Elechiguerra, Cristian Bartolomé and Luis Botín. The four met at Stanford University.
Restive Ventures, NFX, Innovation Endeavors, BlueWalker Capital, MVP Ventures, Kibo Ventures and Masia also joined the round, Santos said on LinkedIn. Axios Pro reported the financing as an exclusive and described Harbor as building software to assess agentic AI risk at financial institutions.
Related coverage: AI insurance broker i23 raises £4.9m seed round from UK investors and CoverGo raises $6m in Series B1 led by Betatron for AI-native core platform.
Sources
- Insurance Journal: Harbor emerges from stealth with $10M funding to handle AI-agent risk
- Axios Pro: Harbor raises $10M for AI agent risk software
- Harbor
- Jesús Santos on LinkedIn
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