Clearly AI Raises $8.4M Seed Round to Scale Product Security

Clearly AI, automating security and privacy assessments, reducing backlogs, and improving visibility without sacrificing trust, led by Emily Choi-Greene and Joe Choi-Greene, has raised $8.4 million in Seed funding from Basis Set Ventures, Crosspoint Capital Partners, Argon Ventures, Ritual Capital, and Y Combinator.

Security teams are facing increasing strain. Each new feature, third-party vendor, and AI deployment demands thorough evaluation across security, privacy, and compliance risks.

While engineering teams accelerate delivery through AI-assisted development, security workflows remain largely manual. Critical context must be reconstructed from fragmented documentation, developers must be followed up for clarifications, and findings are often transferred into spreadsheets through repetitive, manual effort.

Teams face a false choice: move fast and accept unknown risks, or delay launches to conduct exhaustive reviews.

After leading hundreds of security evaluations across Alexa AI, Project Kuiper, and enterprise AI systems, the inefficiencies of this process became undeniable. Clearly AI was founded to modernize and streamline security reviews.

Clearly AI is live with Fortune 500 companies and global brands, including Ericsson and Rivian, reducing security review time by up to 90%. Thousands of security-critical products have been evaluated, spanning badge scanners, stablecoin platforms, and autonomous driving features.

Organizations such as HID Global, Affirm, Webflow, and Okta rely on Clearly AI to match engineering velocity while maintaining rigorous review standards.