Partnering with Irregular: Ahead of the Curve

• Irregular is an AI security lab running offensive evals on frontier models pre-release.
  • Partners: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind — pre-deployment access is the moat.
  • Evals cited in system cards for GPT-4, o3, o4-mini, o4, o5.
• SOLVE framework used by UK government and Anthropic for AI risk assessment.
• Founders: Dan Lahav (AI + security research) and Omer Nevo (elite mathematician, ex-Google).
  • Nevo known for recruiting rare technical talent — team density is a differentiator.
• Revenue in the millions today; market still early outside large cloud-native enterprises.
• Sequoia led the round — thesis: Irregular sets industry security standards, not just a vendor.

Shaun Maguire and Dean Meyer (Sequoia Capital) · 2025-09-17 · Read on sequoiacap.com