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BeeSafe AI

Frontier AI Defenses for Social Engineering Attacks

ActiveChecked 24h ago
Batch
W26
Status, per YC
Active
Team size
3
HQ
San Francisco, CA
In W26199 companies, 80% AI
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Founders

  • Daniel SpokoynyFounder/CEO
  • Ariana MirianFounder
  • Nikolai VoglerFounder/CTO

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About BeeSafe AI

BeeSafe AI is building the frontier model layer for social engineering defense. Cyberattacks have moved from code to conversation: attackers now use AI to carry out long-term, trust-based manipulation across SMS, voice, email, and social platforms, often inside encrypted channels where defenders cannot see, detect, or stop them. BeeSafe changes that by deploying undercover AI agents that engage attackers directly, expose hidden infrastructure, and convert live adversarial conversations into actionable intelligence. Each engagement adds to BeeSafe's proprietary dataset of real attacker behavior and trains foundational models that continually learn about counter-persuasion, deception, and manipulation in the wild. BeeSafe is starting in financial crime, where banks already value our data against Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud and money laundering, but the opportunity is far broader. The same data and models that uncover mule networks today can protect consumers, secure enterprises, and strengthen governments against the next generation of AI-powered social engineering attacks tomorrow.

San Francisco, CA, USA

BeeSafe AI: questions

Which YC batch was BeeSafe AI in?

BeeSafe AI was in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch (W26).

Is BeeSafe AI still active?

Y Combinator lists BeeSafe AI as active.

Who founded BeeSafe AI?

BeeSafe AI's founders, as listed on its YC page: Daniel Spokoyny (Founder/CEO), Ariana Mirian (Founder), Nikolai Vogler (Founder/CTO).

Where is BeeSafe AI based?

BeeSafe AI lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.

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