AI Safety Startup Launches Third-Party Audit for Agents
A new startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC), has raised $40 million in a Series A round. Co-founders Rune Kvist and Rajiv Dattani are proposing to apply cybersecurity standards to AI agents, which they claim could prevent rogue AI from causing harm within enterprises. They have developed an audit standard called AIUC-1 based on the widely used SOC 2 framework for security…
Key points
- AIUC raised $40 million Series A
- Developed audit standard based on SOC 2 framework
- Conducted over 5,000 tests on AI agents
Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents
TechCrunch AI · 15 September 2026
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3sources- Sierra Earns AIUC-1 Certification After Independent AuditPress · Unite.AI ·
- Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUCNewsletter · Latent Space ·
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