Companies

Galileo

galileo.ai

Galileo provides AI evaluation, observability, and real-time protection tools for teams building reliable enterprise GenAI applications.

HQBurlingame, California, United States
Employees1000+
Funding$45M
Valuation$75m
Revenue$5m ARR
5 active roles
Profile 8mo agoJobs checked 3d ago
Specialization
AI Safety
Business
Model Evaluationand 1 more business values
  • Software Applications
Market
Software Development
Ecosystem
Not classified
Customers
Developersand 1 more customers values
  • Enterprises
More details
Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Not classified
Business
Model Evaluation, Software Applications
Specialization
AI Safety
Market
Software Development
Customers
Developers, Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software
Revenue models
Usage Based
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Series B
Reported funding amount
$10M-$50M

About

Galileo builds an end-to-end platform for evaluating, observing, and protecting GenAI applications and agents, serving AI teams from startups through Fortune 50 enterprises. It differentiates through research-backed evaluators and compact models designed for low-latency, low-cost operation across development and production.

Market

Galileo competes in the enterprise AI observability, evaluation, safety, and governance market for generative-AI applications and agents. It positions itself as an evaluation-engineering platform that turns offline tests into production guardrails, differentiating through 20+ out-of-the-box evaluations, low-latency Luna models, behavioral failure analysis, and no-glue-code control of agent actions, tools, and escalation paths.

Target Customers

Galileo targets enterprise AI teams and developers building generative-AI applications and agents, particularly organizations that need production-scale reliability, safety, security, and governance. Its commercial audience includes AI builders and economic buyers involved in enterprise software purchasing.

At a Glance

Problem

Galileo solves the AI measurement and reliability problem: GenAI teams cannot confidently ship when they lack visibility into whether applications and agents are accurate, safe, useful, or behaving as intended. The conventional alternatives—human review or using large language models as judges—are expensive, slow, and difficult to scale. The pain is especially acute in enterprise deployments, where a single agent failure can expose sensitive data, incur real costs, or damage customer relationships.

The killer use case is making autonomous agents reliable in high-stakes workflows such as customer service, financial operations, and business automation. Galileo targets the economics of continuous production oversight as well as the quality problem: its Luna-2 models are claimed to reduce production-monitoring costs by up to 97% while providing low-latency protection against failures.

Product / Service

Galileo is an enterprise AI observability, evaluation, and guardrail platform. It offers more than 20 out-of-the-box evaluations for RAG systems, agents, safety, and security, lets teams create custom evaluators that encode domain expertise, and exposes agent behavior across individual steps, tool calls, and outputs. Its central workflow connects development-time testing to production governance, so evaluations can become runtime guardrail rules rather than remaining isolated reports.

The platform uses Galileo’s Luna evaluation models—purpose-built, compact models that approximate expensive LLM-as-judge evaluations—to score quality quickly and cheaply in production. Teams can observe, evaluate, guardrail, and improve agent behavior through a single system, with deployment available through fully managed SaaS, private VPC, or on-premises environments. The benefit is a more continuous, automated reliability layer with lower evaluation cost, faster feedback, and stronger controls for sensitive enterprise workloads.

Market

Galileo competes in the emerging enterprise AI evaluation, LLM observability, and agent-reliability market. Its comparison set includes LangSmith, Arize, Langfuse, Braintrust, and Helicone. Galileo’s positioning is broader than passive trace logging: it combines observability with packaged and custom evaluations and runtime guardrails, aiming to close the loop from testing to production control.

It is not pre-revenue. In its October 2024 Series B announcement, Galileo reported $45 million of new funding and $68 million in total funding, 834% revenue growth since the beginning of 2024, a quadrupling of enterprise customers, and six Fortune 50 customers including Comcast and Twilio. The company also identified HP, Twilio, and Comcast among its customers and said its platform was used by teams ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies, providing meaningful early enterprise traction even though the evidence does not provide a later quantified revenue or customer update through August 2026.

Founders & Leadership

Vikram ChatterjiFounder
Co-founder and CEO
Atindriyo SanyalFounder
Co-founder and CPO
Yash ShethFounder
Co-founder and CTO
Jason GaroutteChief Marketing Officer
Sudhir TonseVP of Engineering
Brian O'SheaChief Revenue Officer

Funding History

2022-05
Seed$5.1M

The Factory

2022-11
Series A$18M

Walden Catalyst, Battery Ventures

2024-10
Series B$45M

Scale Venture Partners

Recent News

2026-09-15product_launch
Cisco adds Galileo-powered AI tokenomics tracking to Splunk Observability

Cisco announced new Tokenomics capabilities in Splunk Agent Observability, enabling organizations to track AI-agent performance and token spending. The feature uses capabilities from Cisco’s Galileo acquisition and extends observability to Splunk Observability Cloud and Cisco Cloud Control.

2026-04-09other
Making AI Trustworthy and Observable in Real-Time

Cisco announced its intent to acquire Galileo to expand real-time AI observability and trust capabilities. The deal was expected to close in Q4 of Cisco’s fiscal year 2026, with the companies operating independently until then.

2025-10-23product_launch
Galileo AI: The AI Observability and Evaluation Platform

Galileo’s platform was described as enabling AI teams to evaluate, monitor, and protect generative-AI applications and agents at enterprise scale. Its capabilities position the company around AI observability and evaluation for enterprise deployments.

Active Roles

5
Starbase, Texas, United States/Other/24d ago
Remote, United States/Sales/37d ago
Texas, US/Other/39d ago
Texas, US/Other/66d ago
Texas, US/Other/66d ago

Business Model

Galileo operates a tiered SaaS model with usage-based pricing tied to monitored AI interactions or traces. It offers a free developer tier, while enterprise customers are directed to sales-led plans and demos.

Products

Galileo AI observability and evaluation platformRAG, agent, safety, security, and custom evaluationsInsights Engine for agent-behavior analysis and failure diagnosisEval-to-guardrail lifecycle and production guardrailsGroundtruth datasets and subject-matter-expert annotation workflows

Customers

TwilioComcastHP

Tech Stack

Generative AI and LLMsRAG pipelinesAI agents with tool/function callingLLM-as-judge evaluatorsCustom and distilled Luna evaluation modelsL4 GPU inferenceMCP servers and trace/signal ingestion

Competitors

No named direct competitors were identified in the supplied evidence

Key Investors

Scale Venture Partners, Premji Invest, Amex Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, SentinelOne, Databricks Ventures, Battery Ventures, Walden Capital, Factory