SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund Makes First Investment, Joining $58M Funding Round for WitnessAI
SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund — a U.S.-focused corporate venture capital fund launched in collaboration with Fin Capital — is pleased to announce its participation in WitnessAI’s $58 million funding round, marking the fund’s first investment.
WitnessAI is an emerging leader in AI security and governance for enterprises. The company offers a comprehensive, purpose built platform to secure enterprise AI usage—protecting sensitive information, governing prompts and outputs, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enabling transparency and control without slowing innovation. By providing deep visibility and intelligent oversight across AI interactions, WitnessAI enables organizations to scale AI adoption with confidence.
As generative AI becomes embedded in mission critical workflows, AI security has evolved from a forward-looking consideration into an immediate operational priority.
The financial services industry stands to benefit significantly from secure and well-governed AI deployment, given the sensitivity of customer and transaction data, the complexity of regulatory obligations, and the industry’s increasing reliance on AI-enabled operations. Robust AI security is foundational to maintaining trust while unlocking the full potential of next-generation financial services.
As a corporate venture capital fund backed by global financial leaders SMBC and Fin Capital, SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund views AI security as a domain of both strategic importance and substantial societal relevance. We are excited to partner with WitnessAI as they work to establish a trusted, enterprise-grade foundation for responsible AI adoption, and we look forward to collaborating to shape the future of secure, compliant, and sustainable enterprise AI.
About WitnessAI
WitnessAI is a unified AI security and governance platform trusted by enterprises to govern and protect all AI activity. The platform delivers comprehensive, network-level visibility into AI interactions involving both employees and autonomous agents, including usage within native applications where traditional tools lack coverage. Unlike security that relies on outdated keywords, WitnessAI enables intelligent policies that mitigate emerging threats such as prompt injection while empowering productivity. Built on an enterprise-first, single-tenant architecture, the platform ensures data sovereignty and compliance, transforming AI security from a constraint into a strategic enabler.
Official Press Release: WitnessAI Raises $58 Million for Global Expansion and Announces New Ways to Secure AI Agents
