White Circle, a Paris-based AI control platform that monitors AI behavior in real time within enterprise workflows, raised $11M in a seed round from backers including OpenAI's Romain Huet, Anthropic's Durk Kingma, Mistral cofounder Guillaume Lample, and Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf. The startup's main product sits between a company's users and its AI models, checking inputs and outputs against company-specific policies and flagging or blocking requests like generating malware, hallucinating, leaking sensitive data, or taking destructive actions inside a software environment. White Circle says its platform has processed more than one billion API requests and is already used by vibe-coding startup Lovable along with several fintech and legal companies, with the new funding earmarked for team expan
