Virtue AI

Its a wrap! 💫 Thank you to our cybersecurity tech startups, partners, speakers and guests! Special thanks to the teams that developed security use cases with our units Telekom Security and Group Technology Network Security. - DeepKeep (Yossi Altevet, Rony Ohayon) - Virtue AI (Sanmi Koyejo, Jan Eißfeldt) - Whispeak (Florent Van Calster) - QuantiCor Security (Dr. Rachid Bansarkhani) and - Syntho (Wim Kees Janssen, Stephan Waals) What do those five tech startups have in common? They all were finalist of the hubraum Security AI Co-Creation Program over the last months and finished their program journey in Bonn at Deutsche Telekom T Gallery this week. Special thanks to our keynote speakers Ralf Schneider and Dominik Schnieders and Nils Greinert and in particular to our DT Experts and Mentors Christian Kagerhuber, Ewa Frydlewicz, Alvaro Infantes, Peter Scholta, Dietmar Krüger, Martin Martiska! We won't stop and keep up building for an customer centric, AI based, innovative, secure and safe telco network! Keep it up! 💯 Thomas Tschersich, Ahmed Hafez, Riccardo Pascotto, Petr Ledl, Verena Dillenburg, Constanze Kettlitz-Profe

2025 AI and Sustainability Global Awards Winner - Wenbo Guo Wenbo serves as Head of Agent Security at Virtue AI, a frontier-AI startup focused on building safe and resilient next-generation systems. He is also an Assistant Professor and Zhu Chair in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara, where he conducts research at the intersection of large language models, machine learning, and AI security. Previously, he held research roles at IBM and NVIDIA and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at University of California, Berkeley after earning his PhD in deep learning and computer security from Penn State University. Wenbo is nominated by Bo Li. "Wenbo is a pioneering researcher in frontier AI and security. He developed the ground-breaking methods on AI-agent security, now the core technology powering Virtue AI, a leading AI-security startup trusted by top AI labs (e.g., OpenAI) and global enterprises (e.g., Salesforce). His groundbreaking research earned the Google ML&Systems Award and Amazon research award. Wenbo also led the development of agent systems for software-engineering and security applications; his open-source agents ranked second on SWE-Bench (the top academic tool) and placed in the top-seven at the DAPRA AIxCC competition." From the judging panel, "AI’s capabilities are expected to accelerate rapidly over the next decade, and security should never be underestimated. Wenbo and the team at Virtue AI are leading voices shaping this frontier, guiding the development of AI systems that are robust, trustworthy, and aligned with human values. They are establishing the essential guardrails that enable all other technologies to advance safely and responsibly, ensuring that innovation delivers lasting, long-term value." To know more about Wenbo's work: https://lnkd.in/giTiqDAe https://lnkd.in/g9GP5Xvr AI and Sustainability Global Awards: https://lnkd.in/g2NhY455

Cybersecurity Buyer Pitch Results? 🎉 Congratulations to the 10 finalist and winner of the 11/20 Cybersecurity Buyer Pitch presented by Auth0 for Startup & Okta Ventures! Thank you for co-hosting this amazing event Eli Rabek & Eunice Wong! What is a buyer pitch? It's like a VC pitch but with buyers...yes, the people whose opinions should matter the most ☺️ We have a simple agenda... 5-min --> buyers share top priorities they're solving 35-min --> buyers review 10 startup pitches 1-min --> buyers select the most likely tool they'd consider buying (aka the winner 🏆) 15-min --> Q&A - a chance for those not selected to ask relevant questions to the buyers This is more than event; it's a movement to help founders grow faster. This is also SO much bigger than anyone person or company. 👇 Look at all the people who participated to make this possible 🙌 🏆 Winner: Virtue AI, Bo Li 🏅Top 3: Zluri, Ritish Reddy IceGuard, Anders Holden 🎉 Finalist / Top 10: Lume Security, Adon Mallory DeepTrail, Mahendra Kutare Mind, Eran Barak Soteria, Rosemary Nwosu-Ihueze Open Refactory, Munawar Hafiz Aesopic AI, Naresh Guntupalli HERD Security, Brandon Min 🎤 Shoutout to the amazing panel of CISO's / Head of Cybersecurity: Okta's Regional CSO, Americas Matthew Immler --> 🙏 thank Eli Rabek for intro! Confluent's CISO Chris Sandulow --> 🙏 thank Tim Graczewski for intro! Chargebee's Head of Cybersecurity, Suhel Khan --> 🙏 thank Baargav Duggirala for intro! 🙏 Big thanks to the pre-vote judges for helping shape this: Rick. N. Dinesh Rajasekharan Wagner Nascimento Yogesh Badwe Joshua Copeland Thank you to a few of the VCs / partners that referred startups! Anna (Klute) Kessler, Lightspeed Austin A., Okta Ventures Helen Hyungmin P., Antler John Eng, Right Side Capital Management Sharran Deora, DV Gopi Rangan, Sure Ventures Arpan Punyani, Garuda Ventures Dr. Paul Fang, Bay Area Founders Club Vivek Sodera, Supercharge.vc 🎉 Shoutout to the incredible hosts & sponsors powering this event: Drake Dukes Gravity, Aditya Rohit, Tim Graczewski, Baargav Duggirala, and The Founder Initiative (TFI)