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# What are the fundraising trends in the AI safety market?

Last updated: 11 March 2026

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The AI safety market raised a combined $3.9 billion across 58 equity deals from 2022 to 2025, transforming from a small niche into one of the fastest-growing segments in enterprise software.

Safe Superintelligence's back-to-back rounds of $1 billion (2024) and $2 billion (2025) account for the majority of that total, but even without those outliers, AI safety funding grew steadily from $113 million in 2022 to over $200 million in 2025.

The market also saw $1.2 billion in acquisitions in 2025 alone, as cybersecurity giants like Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, and SentinelOne bought AI safety startups to fill critical gaps in their platforms.

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**Insights**

- Safe Superintelligence alone raised $3 billion across 2024 and 2025, representing 78% of all AI safety market funding over the four-year period from 2022 to 2025.
- Excluding SSI's mega-rounds, AI safety funding grew from $113 million in 2022 to $398 million in 2024 before settling at $214 million in 2025 as acquisitions absorbed several players.
- Four AI safety startups were acquired in 2025 for a combined $1.2 billion by Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, SentinelOne, and F5, validating the category as essential enterprise infrastructure.
- Israeli AI safety startups punched well above their weight, representing roughly 15% of deals but capturing nearly 30% of non-SSI funding in 2024 and 2025 combined.
- The average AI safety deal size (excluding SSI) grew from $14.2 million in 2022 to $21.4 million in 2025, reflecting steady maturation of the market.
- AI governance and compliance startups raised the most deals (17 across four years) but captured only 5% of total AI safety funding, suggesting this subcategory remains fragmented and early-stage.
- 2023 was the only year with zero AI safety deals above $50 million, despite being the year ChatGPT drove mainstream enterprise AI adoption.
- The number of pure-play AI safety funding rounds jumped from 8 in 2022 to 27 in 2024, a 237% increase in deal volume within two years.
- Corporate strategic investors like Microsoft M12, Cisco, Salesforce, and Lockheed Martin were active in 2023-2024 AI safety rounds, fo

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