Check Point to acquire Lakera

Founded by AI experts from Google and Meta, Lakera was engineered specifically for AI-native environments. The company operates major AI R&D centers in Zurich and San Francisco. Its flagship solutions, Lakera Red and Lakera Guard, provide pre-deployment posture assessments and real-time runtime enforcement to protect LLMs, AI agents, and multimodal workflows. Lakera’s platform combines advanced runtime protection with continuous red teaming, reinforced by Gandalf, a worldwide leader of adversarial AI network.

This unique approach ensures evolving defenses that stay ahead of emerging AI threats, giving enterprises confidence to deploy AI securely and at scale. Lakera is trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises worldwide and powered by a team of 11 PhDs, ensuring both technical rigor and enterprise-grade resilience.

Enterprises are rapidly embedding large language models, generative AI, and autonomous agents into core workflows. This accelerates innovation but also expands the attack surface, from data exposure and model manipulation to risks introduced by multi-agent collaboration and autonomous decision-making. As data becomes the new executable and the Internet of Agents takes shape, real-time AI-native security has become a business imperative.

Check Point already secures this transformation through GenAI Protect, SaaS and API security, advanced data loss prevention, and machine learning-powered defenses for applications, cloud, and endpoints. With Lakera, Check Point extends these capabilities to deliver one of the industry’s first end-to-end AI security stack. By combining Lakera’s runtime protection with the AI-powered Check Point Infinity architecture, enterprises can secure the full lifecycle of AI – models, agents and data – enabling them to innovate with confidence, at scale, and without compromise.

$300 million exit

According to several media reports Check Point will pay $300 million for Lakera. The company raised $30 m in two funding rounds in 2023 and 2024.

“Lakera was purpose-built for the AI era, with real-time runtime security and research at its core,” said David Haber, Co-Founder and CEO at Lakera. “Joining Check Point allows us to accelerate and scale our mission globally. Together we will protect LLMs, generative AI, and agents with the speed, accuracy, and guardrails enterprises need to embrace AI with confidence.”

Upon closing, Lakera will form the foundation of Check Point’s Global Center of Excellence for AI Security, accelerating AI security research, innovation, and integration across the Check Point Infinity Platform, establishing Check Point as a global leader in securing the AI-powered enterprise and shaping the future of AI security.

The transaction is expected to close in Q4 2025, subject to customary closing conditions.

(Press release / SK)