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Lakera

Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for Lakera.

Dataset compiled 2026-08-28 · evidence over inference

HQ Europe: Unreviewedmodel lab2 model listings0 token-price rows

Reviewed identity

Headquarters scope
headquarters unknown
Headquarters country
unknown
Headquarters city
unknown
Legal entity
AG
Ownership
subsidiary of Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP) — acquisition announced Sep 2025, expected to close Q4 2025, reported at ~$300M
Founded
2021
Confidence
medium
Last verified
2026-08-22

Links

Official website

Headquarters evidence

Open interactive profile

Headquarters evidence

No qualifying headquarters passage was promoted.

Acquisition materials imply Zurich engineering base but no qualifying HQ wording captured.

Evidence boundaries

Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Headquarters is independent of incorporation, registered offices, ownership, hosting and runtime. Model listings show an association in the source register; they do not by themselves establish model creation, current API availability, hosting location or infrastructure ownership.

Model listings

  1. Lakera Guard detection models (prompt-injection, jailbreak, PII and content classifiers)catalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    small purpose-trained classifiers
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    multilingual
    Licence
    proprietary
    Release
    2023–2026
  2. Lakera Red (automated red-teaming for LLMs and agents)catalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    unknown
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    multilingual
    Licence
    proprietary
    Release
    2024

Profile note

Zurich AI-security lab that trains its own guardrail classifiers, uniquely bootstrapped from Gandalf, a public prompt-injection game that harvested tens of millions of real adversarial prompts. Acquired by Check Point in late 2025 for a reported ~$300M and made the foundation of Check Point's Global Centre of Excellence for AI Security in Zurich — so the Zurich engineering base stays, but ownership left Europe.

Record sources

  1. https://www.checkpoint.com/press-releases/check-point-acquires-lakera-to-deliver-end-to-end-ai-security-for-e…
  2. https://www.securityweek.com/check-point-to-acquire-ai-security-firm-lakera/
  3. https://securitybrief.co.uk/story/check-point-acquires-lakera-to-create-ai-security-centre-in-zurich
  4. https://www.startupticker.ch/en/news/check-point-to-acquire-lakera
  5. https://api.lakera.ai/