Security Startups

Company directory

21 companies. Sorted by name. No paid boost.

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AIM Intelligence

Seoul, South Korea

  • Series A

Seoul-based AI red teaming and guardrail company testing language models, agents, and physical AI systems for exploitable behavior.

Closed a KRW 10 billion Series A led by Samsung Venture Investment, April 2026

  • Seed
  • $50M raised
  • Founded 2025

Context firewall for AI agent fleets: discovers agents, continuously vets the skills, plugins, and MCP servers they touch, and blocks what fails.

Emerged from stealth with $50M raised across two seed rounds led by Sequoia and Greenoaks, September 2026

AIUC

San Francisco, United States

  • Series A
  • $55M raised

Assurance and insurance company for AI agents: it audits agents against its AIUC-1 standard and writes insurance tied to the audit results.

Raised a $40M Series A led by Ribbit Capital, September 2026

Alice

New York, United States

  • $280M raised
  • Founded 2018

AI safety and security company (formerly ActiveFence) that red teams models and runs guardrails for AI labs and enterprises.

Raised $140M led by Apax Digital Funds, August 2026

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Gray Swan

Pittsburgh, USA

  • Series A
  • $40M raised
  • Founded 2024

Frontier-lab red teaming (Shade) and runtime defense (Cygnal) trained on unpublished attacks.

Raised $40M Series A co-led by Wing and Madrona, May 2026

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HiddenLayer

Austin, USA

  • Series B
  • $156M raised
  • Founded 2022

Model scanner, attack simulation, and runtime firewall for agentic, generative, and predictive AI.

Raised a $100M Series B led by Delta-v Capital, September 2026

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Knostic

Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Seed
  • $11M raised
  • Founded 2023

Need-to-know access control so Copilots, coding agents, and MCP tools stop oversharing.

Raised $11M to ship need-to-know controls for enterprise AI, March 2025

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Lasso Security

Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Seed
  • $6M raised
  • Founded 2023

Discovery, posture, automated red team, and gateway runtime for models and agents.

Published Securing Agentic AI: The Intent Security Framework, March 2026

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Manifold

San Diego, United States

  • Seed
  • $8M raised
  • Founded 2025

Detection and response for AI agents on employee endpoints: maps what each agent touches, baselines its behavior, and stops the ones that go rogue.

Raised an $8M seed round led by Costanoa Ventures, March 2026

Mindgard

London, United Kingdom

  • Series A
  • $42M raised
  • Founded 2022

Attacker-style recon and automated red team for models, agents, IDEs, and the systems around them.

Raised $30M Series A led by Album VC, August 2026

Modulate

Boston, United States

  • Founded 2017

Deepfake voice and voice fraud detection for live calls, analyzing the audio itself to flag cloned voices, vishing, and caller impersonation.

Raised $25M led by Future Ventures, September 2026

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Neo

Boston, United States

  • Series A
  • $100M raised

Endpoint sensor that inventories AI agents, MCP servers, and extensions on employee machines and enforces allow, block, or approve policies on their actions.

Emerged from stealth with $100M, including a $75M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, July 2026

Noma Security

New York, USA

  • Series B
  • $132M raised
  • Founded 2023

AI-SPM, agent access control, red team, and AI-DR in one control plane for homegrown and SaaS agents.

Raised $100M Series B led by Evolution Equity Partners, July 2025

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Onyx Security

Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Series B
  • $153M raised
  • Founded 2024

Control plane for enterprise AI agents: finds sanctioned and shadow agents, watches what they try to do, and blocks harmful actions before they run.

Raised a $113M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners, July 2026

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Pillar Security

Miami, USA

  • Seed
  • $9M raised
  • Founded 2023

Inventory, agentic red team, and self-improving runtime guardrails for the agent lifecycle.

Named a 2026 Gartner Cool Vendor in AI Software Security

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Rein Security

New York, United States

  • Series A
  • $35M raised
  • Founded 2024

Runtime security for the AI agents enterprises build themselves, using a sidecar that records and polices agent actions inside the customer's own cloud.

Raised a $25M Series A co-led by Glilot Capital and Sienna Venture Capital, October 2026

Runlayer

New York, USA

  • Seed
  • $11M raised
  • Founded 2025

MCP gateway plus identity, observability, and threat detection for enterprise agents.

Emerged from stealth with $11M seed from Khosla (Keith Rabois) and Felicis, November 2025

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Straiker

Mountain View, USA

  • Series A
  • $85M raised
  • Founded 2025

Discover, adversarially test, and kill-switch AI agents and MCP connections in production.

Raised $64M Series A, taking total funding to $85M, June 2026

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Vijil

Menlo Park, USA

  • Series A
  • $23M raised
  • Founded 2024

Continuous trust tests so enterprise agents stay reliable after they leave the lab.

Raised $17M Series A led by BrightMind Partners, November 2025

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WitnessAI

Mountain View, USA

  • Series B
  • $86M raised
  • Founded 2023

Observe, control, and protect employees, models, apps, and agents from one AI security plane.

Raised $58M led by Sound Ventures, January 2026

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Zenity

New York, USA

  • Series C
  • $185M raised
  • Founded 2021

Agent security that watches the decision, not just the prompt, across SaaS, cloud, and endpoint.

Raised $125M Series C led by Norwest, August 2026