Vijil emerged from stealth with $6 million in funding from Mayfield's AIStart seed fund and Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused seed fund.

Founded by engineering leaders from AWS who built the LLM engines of Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock, Vijil is helping enterprises build and operate AI agents that people can trust. Backed by Mayfield AIStart and Gradient Ventures, Vijil is committed to open innovation via research collaboration with academic partners, open-source contributions to relevant projects, and alliances with industry partners who support open foundation models.