OUR STORY
OUR STORY
You could say we wrote the first chapter of AI security.
You could say we wrote the first chapter of AI security.
Our founders created LLM Guard: the most widely adopted open-source LLM firewall in existence. Then took it to market, securing AI deployments across Fortune 500 enterprises at scale.
Our founders created LLM Guard: the most widely adopted open-source LLM firewall in existence. Then took it to market, securing AI deployments across Fortune 500 enterprises at scale.
Our founders created LLM Guard: the most widely adopted open-source LLM firewall in existence. Then took it to market, securing AI deployments across Fortune 500 enterprises at scale.
Then enterprise AI grew up. Chatbots became agents. And agents don't just respond. They act.
Pretty soon, agents sprawled across developer laptops, connected to source code, pipelines, production systems. Executing autonomously. Nobody watching.
Then enterprise AI grew up. Chatbots became agents. And agents don't just respond. They act.
Pretty soon, agents sprawled across developer laptops, connected to source code, pipelines, production systems. Executing autonomously. Nobody watching.
An expanding supply chain made it worse. MCP servers, plugins, third-party skills, tool integrations. None of it inspected, none of it governed.
The risk had very little to do with prompts going in or responses coming out.
An expanding supply chain made it worse. MCP servers, plugins, third-party skills, tool integrations. None of it inspected, none of it governed.
The risk had very little to do with prompts going in or responses coming out.
It became obvious: the security layer had to live at runtime. Because the risk isn't in what agents say. It's in what they do.
It became obvious: the security layer had to live at runtime. Because the risk isn't in what agents say. It's in what they do.
So we built Manifold.
So we built Manifold.
AI Detection and Response, purpose-built for the agentic enterprise.
AI Detection and Response, purpose-built for the agentic enterprise.
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of pull requests written by coding agent
Anthropic
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of engineering teams use AI coding tools, up from 61% a year prior
Jellyfish
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of security professionals name agentic AI the #1 attack vector for 2026
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TEAM
Meet our founders
Meet our founders
Oleksandr Yaremchuk
Co-Founder & CTO
Neal Swaelens
Co-Founder & CEO
Michael McKenna
Co-Founder & CRO
INVESTORS
Backed by the best in the business
Backed by the best in the business
© 2026 Manifold. All Rights Reserved.
© 2026 Manifold. All Rights Reserved.
© 2026 Manifold. All Rights Reserved.