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Straiker funding, valuation and investors
Agentic security platform that discovers, adversarially tests, and runtime-protects enterprise AI agents.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series A
$64M · June 2026
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$64M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
series a · Mountain View, California
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Marathon Management Partners , Citi Ventures , Illuminate Financial , Workday Ventures
Other: Bain Capital Ventures , Lightspeed
Overview
Straiker builds an agentic-native security platform for enterprises and frontier AI labs. The product discovers AI agents across environments, runs pre-deployment adversarial testing through STAR Labs, and applies runtime protection that feeds production threats back into testing. Co-founded by Ankur Shah (ex–Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud) and Sreenath Kurupati (ex–Akamai / Cyberfend).
In June 2026 Straiker raised a $64 million Series A (total funding $85M) led by Marathon Management Partners, Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and Workday Ventures, with Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed returning.
Why Straiker is interesting
Series A ($64M, Jun 2026) with Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed returning plus Workday/Citi strategics — agent security is becoming its own enterprise control plane as agents get production credentials.
Product & use cases
Platform for AI-agent discovery, pre-deploy adversarial testing, and runtime protection with a shared intelligence loop between research and production defenses.
- Inventory and risk-rank enterprise AI agents
- Adversarial test agents before production deploy
- Runtime block of agent hijack / data exfiltration paths
Key facts
- Series A (Jun 2026): $64M; total funding $85M (Straiker / PR Newswire)
- Leads: Marathon, Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial, Workday Ventures
- Returning: Bain Capital Ventures (/fund/bain-capital-ventures), Lightspeed (/fund/lightspeed-venture-partners-nyc)
- STAR Labs research: 36% of successful coding-agent attacks → RCE; 91% of productivity-agent attacks → silent exfil (company)
- Claimed >15× run-rate revenue growth in under a year (company)
Funding history (newest first)
Series A
2026-06 $64M- Marathon Management Partners (lead)
- Citi Ventures (lead)
- Illuminate Financial (lead)
- Workday Ventures (lead)
- Bain Capital Ventures (participant)
- Lightspeed (participant)
Source: Read source · straiker.ai
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Founders scaled Prisma Cloud and AI/security research; pairs exploit research (STAR Labs) with an agent-native runtime engine sold to Fortune 500 and frontier labs.
As agents gain tools and identity, security buyers need discovery + adversarial test + runtime — not prompt filters alone. Straiker sells that full loop.
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Zenity adjacent
AI agent security/governance; overlapping enterprise buyer.
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Neo (agentic security) adjacent
Agent security category peer in 2026 funding wave.
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Classic CNAPP / CSPM incumbent
Cloud posture tools not built for dynamic tool-using agents.
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