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Galileo funding, valuation and investors
Generative AI evaluation and monitoring platform; acquired by Cisco in April 2026.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series B
$45M · October 15, 2024
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$63M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
acquired
acquired · San Francisco, CA
Latest tracked event: Cisco acquisition completed (May 22, 2026). It is shown separately because it is not counted as disclosed equity funding.
Overview
Galileo develops evaluation and monitoring for language models and AI agents, helping enterprise teams test output quality, hallucinations, retrieval and workflow behavior. It announced a $45M Series B in 2024 and earlier rounds reported by funding databases. Cisco announced an agreement to acquire Galileo April 9, 2026 and confirmed closing May 22, 2026, with consideration undisclosed.
Evaluation for correctness is not equivalent to preventing prompt injection or unauthorized tool calls.
Why Galileo is interesting
Galileo's path from independent eval infrastructure to a Cisco acquisition strengthens the strategic buyer thesis around trustworthy AI and enterprise agent monitoring.
Product & use cases
LLM and AI agent evaluations, model monitoring, production quality assessment and development feedback.
- Assess RAG hallucinations and response correctness
- Evaluate prompts and agents before and after deployment
- Monitor drift and errors in production AI applications
Funding history (newest first)
Cisco acquisition completed
2026-05-22 UndisclosedSource: Read source · blogs.cisco.com
Series B
2024-10-15 $45MSource: Read source · galileo.ai
Seed (2022; secondary source)
~$5.1M, secondary-reportedSource: Read source · app.dealroom.co
Series A (November 2022; day unverified)
$18M, secondary-reportedSource: Read source · app.dealroom.co
Competitive landscape
Edge: Quality and agent-specific evaluation platform, now integrated into Cisco's enterprise AI architecture.
The closest alternatives differ by whether they investigate existing telemetry, orchestrate incidents, evaluate AI agent behavior, or prevent adversarial exploitation. Selection should be based on representative task-level tests, deployment permissions, data control and total ownership cost.
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Fiddler AI direct
Model and agent monitoring
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Arize AI direct
LLM evals and observability
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Braintrust direct
Experimentation and evaluations
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