Dynamo AI

Backed byNexus Venture Partners

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Total raised$19.3M
StageSeries A
Hiring pace5 roles / 90d
Founded2021
Team size51-200 employees
HQSan Francisco, CA
Industries
AI/ML

About Dynamo AI

Security, hallucination, and compliance gaps are stifling your AI production goals. Dynamo delivers auditable AI guardrails, hallucination checks, red-teaming, and observability so you can productionize AI with confidence.

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Company at a glance

Location
San Francisco, CA
Websitedynamo.ai
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Founders & Leadership

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Vaikkunth Mugunthan

CEO & Co-Founder - Dynamo AI | CS PhD at MIT | Forbes 30 U30 | LLMs, AI Security, and Privacy Expert | YC W22

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Eric Lin

VP, Applied AI at Dynamo | Agent Evals and Safeguards

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Daniel Ross

Head of AI Compliance Strategy

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Nathan Ke

Director of Engineering

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Oliver (Yonggang) Liu

Director of Engineering | Dynamo AI | Google Vertex AI | Founding engineer of Istio | PhD

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About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Engineering46%
  • Product & Design20%
  • Business Operations & Management13%
  • Other Specialized9%
  • Leadership6%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.Harvard University
  2. 2.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  3. 3.Stanford University
  4. 4.University of California, Berkeley
  5. 5.Princeton University

Team Worked At

  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • IBM
  • Apple
  • Amazon

Team Composition

44 people
  • Engineering2 senior15
  • Research5
  • Leadership2 senior3
  • Arts and Design2
  • Operations2
  • Product Management2
  • Accounting1
  • Administrative1

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