As more companies integrate Generative AI into daily operations, they face new challenges: lack of visibility, governance issues, security concerns, and difficulty measuring return on investment. Led by Arti Raman, Portal26 was built to solve these problems.
The US company’s platform helps businesses monitor, secure, and measure AI use across teams. This allows leaders to see how AI is used, ensure compliance, and get the most value from their investments.
“As enterprises across the world invest in Generative AI, they need a way to manage and measure it responsibly. We built Portal26 to give organisations the visibility, governance, and analytics they need to unlock AI’s full potential safely,” said Raman, CEO of Portal26.
Today, this Silicon Valley-based company that helps enterprises securely adopt and manage Generative AI has raised $9 million in a Series A round led by Shasta Ventures. The round also saw participation from Fusion Fund, a leading deep tech and AI investor, and the venture arm of a Fortune 500 financial services firm.
This new round follows Portal26’s $6 million seed funding in 2022, bringing its total capital raised to $15 million. The fresh funds will be used to accelerate product innovation, strengthen customer partnerships, and scale the company’s fast-growing GenAI Adoption Management Platform.
Helping enterprises make AI work
Portal26’s founder and CEO, Arti Raman, has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and risk management, having held leadership roles at companies like Symantec. Motivated by incidents such as the 2017 Equifax breach, she envisioned building tools that help enterprises adopt AI responsibly without compromising security.
Raman told TFN, “Portal26 offers the industry’s only NIST FIPS 140 certified encrypted forensic vault where enterprises can store complete and granular GenAI transactions. This ensures full auditability, compliance reporting, regulatory support, forensic investigation support, legal coverage, and extensive reporting capabilities. Between the automated zero-day Shadow AI detection and the Forensic Vault, Portal26 is the only company who can support backwards-looking investigation into GenAI that companies become aware of weeks after it has already spread inside the enterprise (e.g. Deepseek)”
What sets Portal26 apart is its wide-ranging capabilities packed into one platform. It offers cutting-edge features such as zero-day ShadowAI detection, an advanced forensic vault certified to high-encryption standards, AI-driven analysis of usage intent and risk scoring, and tight policy enforcement across existing security frameworks.
Unlike Microsoft Azure AI (with strong foundation model integration and enterprise AI services) and AWS AI Platforms, Portal26 brings governance, security, strategy, and training together in a unified system that fits neatly into a company’s workflow.
Raman added, “Portal26 is the only solution that scans all GenAI transactions to understand and extract use cases. Portal26 then estimates the value provided by the use of GenAI in specific use cases and performs a risk-value analysis. Portal26 also understand and enables license usage and rationalisation. All these features enable strong ROI analysis and support GenAI investment decisions across private, licensed, and public GenAI use in the enterprise”
What’s next?
Looking ahead, Portal26 plans to continue innovating by expanding its strategy and governance capabilities, deepening key partnerships, and extending its reach worldwide.
Raman concluded, “Portal26 plans to expand on the broader adoption management theme so that organisations can use our platform to meet the security basics (Shadow AI, Security and Risk Management) but quickly move on to use case identification, risk-value analysis and GenAI strategy that will enable them to truly see gains from adopting GenAI.
In order to achieve this for our customers, we plan to invest heavily in four key areas: Expanded AI discovery to include deeper model, agent, and data implications, Expanded productivity and ROI features to include scenario analysis, Expanded consumption analytics to include cost and savings, and Expanded reporting capabilities. “
Jacob Mullins, Managing Director, Shasta Ventures, added, “As the first and leading GenAI Adoption Management Platform, its innovative approach to finding GenAI in the enterprise, securing it, and enabling measurable ROI, is a great example of the kind of leadership and creativity we seek to back. We look forward to helping Portal26 continue to build something extraordinary and sustain its strong growth.”
