AIR Raises $50M to Monitor AI Agents' Skills and Add-ons
AI security startup AIR has raised a total of $50 million in two seed rounds led by Sequoia Capital and Greenoaks. The company is building a platform designed to monitor the growing software supply chain around AI agents, including skills, plug-ins, MCP servers, and add-ons that allow these systems to interact with external sources. Founded by Yair Saban (CEO) and Niv Hoffman (CTO), both former members of Israel's Unit 8200 intelligence corps, AIR aims to provide visibility into AI agent activity within companies. The platform identifies unapproved agents or tools used by employees, intercepts actions like loading skills from the internet, and blocks access based on a maintained whitelist. AIR argues that as AI agents become more autonomous in enterprise environments, there is an urgent need for oversight similar to how operating systems manage drivers today. The company currently filters out about 27% of online add-ons it deems risky.
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