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LogosGuard

logosguard.com

LogosGuard protects AI use by redacting sensitive data locally and helping enterprises govern AI risk.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 5d ago
Specialization
Securityand 1 more specialization values
  • AI Governance
Business
Software Applicationsand 1 more business values
  • Model Evaluation
Market
Cross Industry
Ecosystem
Applications
Customers
Consumersand 1 more customers values
  • Enterprises
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Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Applications
Business
Software Applications, Model Evaluation
Specialization
Security, AI Governance
Market
Cross Industry
Customers
Consumers, Enterprises
Delivery models
On Premise Software, Professional Services
Revenue models
Subscription, Services Fees
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Not classified
Reported funding amount
Not classified

About

LogosGuard builds an AI privacy and governance platform: its browser extension redacts sensitive information locally before prompts reach tools such as ChatGPT and Claude, while its enterprise offering translates AI policies into controls, stress-tests AI products, and monitors changes. It sells to individual AI users and enterprises adopting AI, differentiating through on-device processing that keeps prompt data off its servers and compliance-oriented governance workflows.

Market

LogosGuard competes at the intersection of enterprise AI data-loss prevention, prompt security, and AI governance/assurance. It positions itself as a privacy-first control layer that scans and redacts data before submission, while also translating frameworks such as NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 into controls and continuously testing AI products. Its differentiation is the combination of AI-workflow-specific enforcement, local processing that keeps sensitive content on the device, broad browser coverage without per-tool integrations, and governance-grade evidence rather than only conventional network blocking or generic GRC.

Target Customers

LogosGuard targets large enterprises adopting AI, especially organizations with sensitive or regulated data and buyers in security/CISO, procurement and vendor risk, compliance/internal audit, CIO, and product/ML engineering functions. Its strongest fit is with enterprises that need to approve AI vendors or internal AI deployments while preventing PII, PHI, credentials, customer data, and proprietary code from reaching external AI tools.

At a Glance

Problem

LogosGuard addresses the risk that employees will paste sensitive business or personal information into generative-AI tools. The company identifies the exposure of PII, PHI, credentials, account data, customer information, and proprietary code as a source of potential breaches, compliance violations, and competitive harm. The pain is amplified by the trade-off between security and productivity: blocking AI tools is too blunt, while training employees to recognize every sensitive field does not reliably work and can drive users toward workarounds.

The killer use case is an employee using ChatGPT, Claude, or another AI assistant to draft a customer response, analyze an account issue, or work with an internal document that contains real names, account numbers, or other identifiers. LogosGuard aims to preserve the productivity benefit of AI while preventing those values from reaching the AI vendor, reducing the operational and compliance cost of relying on employee judgment alone.

Product / Service

LogosGuard offers a browser-based privacy and data-loss-prevention layer. Its individual browser extension runs locally without an account: it scans text as users paste or type, and scans supported file uploads, then highlights sensitive spans and suggests replacing them with tokens such as [NAME], [ACCOUNT], and [ADDRESS]. The user can review, edit, accept, or reject the proposed redaction before submitting the prompt, allowing the AI to work on a useful version of the request without receiving the real identifiers.

For enterprises, the browser extension can route prompts through a LogosGuard deployment in a cloud tenant or a self-hosted/VPC environment before they reach the AI vendor. The enterprise offering is positioned as a technical guardrail with detection, warning, blocking, redaction, policy administration, audit logs, and SIEM integration across major AI web applications. The product therefore combines a free, no-sign-up local extension for individuals with a managed enterprise delivery model for organizations seeking centralized control and auditability.

Market

LogosGuard competes primarily in generative-AI data loss prevention, AI privacy, and enterprise AI security, while its Y Combinator profile also positions it as an AI governance and assessment platform. That broader positioning includes translating frameworks such as NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 into controls, stress-testing AI products and vendors, and monitoring changes. The available market research names OneTrust as an adjacent GRC and AI-governance competitor, and identifies Arize AI, Fiddler AI, TruEra, and Robust Intelligence as overlapping competitors in monitoring, explainability, model validation, and AI security testing.

Public evidence indicates an early but active company rather than a clearly pre-revenue venture. Y Combinator lists LogosGuard as founded in 2025, part of its Fall 2025 batch, active, and based in San Francisco with a two-person team; PitchBook reports $500,000 in accelerator/incubator funding and labels the company as generating revenue. No customer count, revenue figure, or named customer case study is disclosed in the available sources, so the strongest defensible characterization is an early-stage startup with a launched free product, an enterprise demo motion, and some reported commercial activity, but limited publicly documented traction.

Founders & Leadership

Abel JohnFounder
Co-Founder
Sukrut OakFounder
Co-Founder

Funding History

2025-09
Seed (Crunchbase labels it Pre-Seed)$500K

Y Combinator

Recent News

2026-07-15other
Artificial Intelligence Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

LogosGuard appears in Y Combinator’s 2026 artificial-intelligence company directory as an active Fall 2025 startup based in San Francisco. The listing highlights safe use of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini without exposing sensitive data.

2026-06-20product_launch
Browser Extension | LogosGuard - AI Privacy Shield

LogosGuard’s AI Privacy Shield is presented as a Chrome extension that replaces private data with placeholders before prompts reach tools such as ChatGPT and Claude. The product runs locally and requires no account.

2026-02-21other
LogosGuard: Pricing, Features & Alternatives | ELI by Techbible

TechBible describes LogosGuard as a platform for evaluating AI products and vendors against frameworks including NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001. It highlights automated testing for bias, safety, privacy, and security, along with continuous monitoring and compliance reporting.

2025-11-10other
LogosGuard: The sensitive data redaction layer for AI | Y Combinator

Y Combinator’s company profile presents LogosGuard as an active Fall 2025 startup whose platform turns AI policies into executable controls, stress-tests AI products, and continuously monitors changes. The profile also references the company’s launch announcement.

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Business Model

LogosGuard monetizes its individual product through a paid Pro subscription after a seven-day free trial, priced at $5 per month or $60 annually. It also targets large enterprises with paid AI assessment and continuous-monitoring contracts; a company profile estimates average contract values of $150,000–$250,000.

Products

LogosGuard AI Privacy Shield browser extension for local prompt and file scanning and redactionEnterprise AI DLP platform for detecting, warning, blocking, or redacting sensitive data before it reaches AI tools, with managed deployment, audit logs, and SIEM integrationAI governance and assessment platform for control baselines, AI-product stress testing, continuous monitoring, and auditor-ready reporting

Tech Stack

Browser extension technologyOn-device/local detection and redaction modelsHugging Face model assetsAI/LLM tool integrationsEnterprise cloud, self-hosted, and VPC deploymentPolicy enforcement, audit logging, and SIEM integration

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