Problem

Mobile applications—especially those used for banking, fintech, payments, healthcare, and government—remain exposed after deployment, when attackers can tamper with binaries, reverse-engineer logic, abuse APIs, take over accounts, or commit fraud. RASPIRE targets the gap between pre-release security testing and protection in production: conventional scanners and penetration tests identify issues, but they do not continuously defend the app once it is running. The operational cost is substantial, with existing runtime defenses often requiring SDK integrations, source-code changes, specialist security expertise, weeks or months of configuration, and audit delays. The killer use case is protecting a live mobile banking or payments app from fraud and runtime abuse without forcing engineering teams to slow releases or rebuild the application.

Product / Service

RASPIRE is an AI-powered, no-code runtime application security layer and post-compile shield for Android and iOS apps. A team uploads a compiled APK, AAB, IPA, or XCARCHIVE, and RASPIRE analyzes the binary, automatically selects and applies protections such as anti-hooking, anti-debugging, anti-tampering, anti-fraud, reverse-engineering, and API defenses, then hardens and signs the build. It can be incorporated into CI/CD, with no SDK, source-code change, configuration file, or material workflow change; the company says protection can be added in minutes and deployed in cloud or on-premises environments.

The product is designed to defend applications continuously at runtime rather than merely generate alerts before release. It streams blocked attacks and risk context into a real-time dashboard and can feed existing SIEM or application-monitoring tools, giving security teams visibility into attacker behavior and the ability to respond or block devices. The claimed benefit is faster release velocity, lower engineering and security overhead, continuous threat response, and compliance-oriented evidence without an appreciable impact on app performance or user experience.

Market

RASPIRE competes in mobile application protection and runtime application security, overlapping with RASP, mobile app shielding, mobile fraud prevention, and API-abuse protection. The relevant competitive set includes GuardSquare’s DexGuard, Appdome’s no-code mobile app security platform, DoveRunner, Jscrambler, and Approov. RASPIRE’s positioning is differentiated by combining runtime defense and telemetry with an AI-configured, post-compile workflow that avoids source-code changes and SDK integration; Appdome is the closest conceptual comparison because it also emphasizes automated, no-code mobile protection, while GuardSquare, Jscrambler, and Approov represent adjacent established approaches.

The company is an early-stage but already deployed startup rather than a purely pre-product concept. Y Combinator identifies it as part of the 2026 batch, and RASPIRE says its protection is already used by apps serving more than 20 million end users across banking, fintech, healthtech, and e-commerce. Other reporting says it has commercial traction in the Gulf, serves banks, insurers, fintechs, and selected government entities, and announced a Saudi partnership after exhibiting at Black Hat MEA 2025; PitchBook lists $500,000 in funding. The available evidence does not disclose ARR, revenue, or a precise paying-customer count, so the strongest supported conclusion is meaningful early adoption with revenue stage not publicly established.