Request for Manual Review - AI Sec Warden NVIDIA Inception Application Declined Without Reason

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cc: @prateejain @natashap @TomNVIDIA @chrisb3

Hello NVIDIA Inception Team,

I’m the founder of AI Sec Warden, an early-stage AI cybersecurity startup. Our NVIDIA Inception application was recently declined, but we were not provided with a specific reason for the decision.

Company: AI Sec Warden
Website: https://aisecwarden.com
Application/Contact Email: pratti@aisecwarden.com

AI Sec Warden is building an Autonomous AI Security Engineer that helps security and engineering teams investigate and correlate risks across cloud infrastructure, source code, identities, APIs, containers, CI/CD, and development environments. The platform identifies attack paths, prioritizes exploitable risk, supports remediation with human control, and verifies fixes.

To the best of our understanding, AI Sec Warden meets the published minimum eligibility requirements for NVIDIA Inception:

  • We are an early-stage incorporated startup.

  • We employ/have at least one developer actively building the product.

  • We maintain a working company/product website at https://aisecwarden.com.

  • The company is less than 10 years old.

  • We are building our own AI-native software product.

Because of this, we are concerned that the rejection may have resulted from an automated screening issue, incorrect validation, or a misunderstanding of information in our application.

I also emailed the NVIDIA Inception team on August 11, 2026, requesting clarification and reconsideration, but as of August 19, 2026, I have not received a response.

We are genuinely interested in the NVIDIA ecosystem. AI Sec Warden has workloads involving LLM inference, embeddings, security-data analysis, code and configuration analysis, agent reasoning, attack-path analysis, and model evaluation. As we scale, we are evaluating NVIDIA technologies and GPU-accelerated infrastructure for these workloads.

We respectfully request that an NVIDIA Inception team member manually review our application and let us know:

  1. The specific reason the application was declined.

  2. Whether any information in our submission was incomplete or incorrectly interpreted.

  3. Whether the application can be reconsidered if we meet the program requirements.

  4. Whether there is anything we need to correct or provide to complete a manual review.

We are asking for a review because, based on the published eligibility criteria and our company profile, we believe AI Sec Warden qualifies to be considered for NVIDIA Inception.

If an NVIDIA team member can help escalate this for manual review, we would sincerely appreciate it.

Thank you.

Pratti
Founder, AI Sec Warden
https://aisecwarden.com
pratti@aisecwarden.com

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Hi @pratti

Inception issues are not handled in the forums, please reach out to the Inception team directly at inceptionprogram@nvidia.com

Thanks,

Tom

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Hi @TomNVIDIA,

Thank you for the reply.

I already emailed inceptionprogram@nvidia.com more than 9 days ago (on August 11) with our application details and request for clarification, but have not received any response or acknowledgment yet.

Since there has been no update via email, is there any way this can be flagged or escalated to the Inception team internally to check on the status?

Thank you for your help,

Pratti