The AI partner for businesses that want to move fast
without losing control.
Aona is the Workforce AI Security platform for enterprises. We discover every AI tool your team uses, enforce the policies your board needs, and stop sensitive data from leaking through generative AI. Sydney-based, senior team, built for CEOs, COOs, and security leaders who want the upside of generative AI without the governance surprise six months later.
Founded
Oct 2023
Sydney, Australia
Certification
SOC 2
Type II, AICPA audited
Coverage
5,600+
AI tools tracked
Surfaces
4
Web extension, desktop app, admin dashboard, APIs
Every company will deploy AI. Most will skip governance. We think the winners will be the ones who move fast and know exactly what their AI is doing on day one.
Three pillars, one platform.
Buy one pillar, or deploy all three. Same data model, same admin console, same audit trail.
Discover
Shadow AI discovery across 5,600+ tools. See every AI app your team uses, who uses it, and what data it touches.
Buyer
CISO / IT Director
Govern
Usage analytics, policy enforcement, and compliance reporting. Approve, restrict, or block tools by role, team, or data sensitivity.
Buyer
IT / Compliance
Protect
Data protection firewall, DLP, and file redaction (DOCX, Excel, PDF). Stop sensitive data from leaving your perimeter in real time.
Buyer
Security team
Our story
Built for the AI wave.
- Founded
- October 2023
- Headquarters
- Sydney, Australia
- Stage
- Pre-seed, June 2025
- Team
- Small, senior, shipping
Aona AI was founded in Sydney in 2023. The founding premise was simple: every enterprise was about to adopt generative AI, and most would skip the governance step entirely, repeating the Shadow IT mistakes of the cloud era, only faster and with more sensitive data.
We started with discovery. Then added policy enforcement and data protection. Today Aona is the Workforce AI Security platform for enterprises. We see every AI tool your team uses, stop the data leaks, and enforce the policies your board needs, continuously, across 5,600+ AI tools.
We raised our pre-seed round in June 2025 from Antler, Tenity, and angel investors. We are SOC 2 Type II certified. The team is small, senior, and shipping.
Who's behind Aona.
Bastien Cabirou
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder and CEO of Aona AI. Building the platform that lets businesses adopt AI fast without losing control of their data.
Salim Sebkhi
Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer
Co-Founder and CRO of Aona AI. Leads revenue, partnerships, and customer growth across legal, financial services, and mining.
AI agents, every day.
Alongside the two founders, five AI agents work daily on content, sales, engineering, and customer success. Every output goes through human review before it ships.
Maya Anaya
AIGrowth & Marketing Agent
AI growth and marketing agent at Aona AI. Writes SEO content, product-led blog posts, and campaign copy that helps enterprise buyers understand AI governance.
Aaron Vance
AISales Development Representative
AI sales development agent at Aona AI. Produces sales-focused content, competitive intelligence, and outbound materials that support Salim's go-to-market motion.
Cleo Finley
AICustomer Success Manager
AI customer success agent at Aona AI. Produces onboarding content, support resources, and customer-facing materials that help enterprise teams get value from the platform faster.
Ryu Saito
AIDeveloper Agent
AI developer agent at Aona AI. Works on code, deployments, debugging, and infrastructure to keep the platform shipping.
Liam Foster
AIFull-Cycle Sales Agent — France & Europe
AI sales agent covering France and Europe at Aona AI. Handles pipeline, outreach, demos, and follow-up for Aona's European go-to-market.
Investors
Backed by builders.
Antler
Pre-seed, June 2025
Tenity
Pre-seed, June 2025
Angels
Pre-seed, June 2025
Trust
Audited, not adjacent.
SOC 2 Type II
Independently audited annually against AICPA Trust Services Criteria for Security, Availability, and Confidentiality.
Read our security postureSee Aona on your own AI stack.
Book a 15-minute demo. We will walk through your Shadow AI exposure, regulatory fit, and rollout pace.