Hirundo has raised $8.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Hirundo's investors include SuperSeed, Mads Jensen, Yaron Carni.
Hirundo is a Tel Aviv- and London-based AI startup founded in 2023 that builds the world's first Machine Unlearning Platform, enabling AI models to "forget" unwanted data, biases, hallucinations, and vulnerabilities without retraining.[1][2][3][4][5] The platform serves enterprises in high-stakes sectors like finance, healthcare, defense, and consumer-facing industries, solving core AI deployment risks such as privacy violations, regulatory non-compliance (e.g., "right to be forgotten"), poisoned data, and inaccuracies that block production readiness.[2][3][4][5] It delivers results in under an hour at less than 5% of retraining costs, with proven outcomes like 85% reduction in jailbreaks, 70% bias reduction, and 100% PII removal, while supporting LLMs, computer vision, radar, LiDAR, NLP, and more via API, SaaS, VPC, or on-premises deployment.[3][4][5]
In June 2025, Hirundo raised $8 million in seed funding led by Maverick Ventures Israel, with participation from SuperSeed, Alpha Intelligence Capital, Tachles VC, AI.FUND, and Plug and Play Tech Center, to commercialize its patent-pending technologies.[2][4] Already piloting with multinational corporations and government agencies, the company merges academic AI research with practical tools, positioning it for rapid growth in the exploding demand for trustworthy AI.[1][4]
Hirundo was founded in 2023 by Ben Luria (CEO, Rhodes Scholar, serial entrepreneur with prior roles at Oxford and co-founder of fintech Worqly and nonprofit ScholarsIL), Emeritus Professor Oded Shmueli (former Dean of Computer Science and EVP at Israel's Technion, with AI work since 1995 at IBM, HP, AT&T, and more), and Michael Leybovich (graduate CS researcher at Technion and award-winning R&D officer).[1][2][4] The idea emerged from the limitations of traditional AI training—a "one-way track" where removing bad data required costly full retrains—pioneering "machine unlearning" to surgically excise issues like biases, hallucinations, and sensitive data.[1][3][4]
Early traction built on the founders' expertise: Luria's entrepreneurial experience, Shmueli's decades in AI academia, and Leybovich's data lineage skills enabled rapid development of patent-pending solutions.[1][2][4] By 2025, this led to the $8M seed round and pilots, marking a pivotal shift from research to enterprise product amid rising AI regulations and safety needs.[2][3][4]
Hirundo rides the trustworthy AI wave, addressing AI's "unresolved core issues" like hallucinations, biases, and privacy as models scale and regulations (e.g., EU "right to be forgotten," GDPR) intensify—market forces de-risking enterprise adoption where most mission-critical AI fails production.[1][3][4][5] Timing is ideal post-2023 AI boom, with unlearning emerging as essential for generative and non-generative systems amid vulnerabilities from poisoned data and fine-tuning.[2][3]
It influences the ecosystem by enabling safer AI in regulated sectors, reducing retrain barriers (key for cost-sensitive firms), and boosting accuracy via automated QA—pioneering a field that could standardize "AI hygiene" like data cleaning, fostering broader, responsible deployment.[3][4][5]
Hirundo is poised to dominate machine unlearning as AI safety becomes table stakes, with its seed funding fueling commercialization and pilots converting to revenue amid exploding demand for bias-free, compliant models.[2][4] Next: Expand to more modalities, scale enterprise wins, and leverage regulations/trends like multimodal AI and federal AI mandates; potential for acquisitions by hyperscalers needing remediation tools.[3][5]
Its influence could evolve from pioneer to infrastructure layer, "fixing AI at its core" to unlock trillions in stalled deployments—ensuring models know only what they should, as AI permeates everything.[1][5]
Hirundo has raised $8.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $8.0M Seed in June 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2025 | $8.0M Seed | SuperSeed, Mads Jensen, Yaron Carni |
