Trent AI Raises $13M to Build Multi-Agent Security for a World Where AI Systems Are Running Themselves
April 8, 2026 – 9:35 am
A London startup, Trent AI, has emerged from stealth with a layered agentic security solution and a seed round backed by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital. Its co-founders include a Cambridge professor who was previously Amazon’s director of machine learning.
Trent AI is targeting a growing gap as enterprises rapidly deploy autonomous AI agents, outpacing the adaptation of their security frameworks. The company offers a multi-agent security platform tailored for agentic environments, distinct from conventional static-rules security tools.
The platform employs four specialized agents running in parallel:
- Scan agents: Observe code, infrastructure, dependencies, and runtime behavior to identify risks.
- Judge agents: Classify and prioritize signals based on real business impact, not predefined rules.
- Mitigate agents: Automatically patch vulnerabilities and validate fixes.
- Evaluate agents: Track risk trends over time and benchmark against standards.
The feedback loop between these layers enhances the accuracy of each subsequent cycle.
The founding team combines academic depth with operational scale:
- Eno Thereska, CEO, formerly a Distinguished Engineer at Alcion, AWS, and Confluent.
- Neil Lawrence, Co-founder, DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at Cambridge University and ex-Amazon Director of Machine Learning.
- Zhenwen Dai, third co-founder, was a machine learning scientist at AWS and Senior Research Manager at Spotify.
A Deloitte survey highlights the gap: while 74% of companies plan to deploy agentic AI within two years, only 21% have a mature governance model for autonomous agents. Trent AI directly addresses this challenge.
Design partners like Canopy, Commscentre, ML@Cam, Qbeast, and Weblogic are already testing the platform. Trent AI is an OWASP (Open Worldwide Application Security Project) member and a startup partner with Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab Venture Network. The product includes an open-source security agent for OpenClaw.
Saul Klein, co-founder and executive chairman of Phoenix Court (LocalGlobe), noted, “This is the right time to build the long-term foundations of security for agentic systems.”