Straiker Raises $64M Series A to Secure the 'Agentic Workforce' — 15x Revenue in Under a Year
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Straiker announced a $64M Series A on June 29 (total funding $85M), led by Marathon Management Partners, Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and Workday Ventures, with Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed returning. The agentic-security startup — led by CEO Ankur Shah (ex-Prisma Cloud SVP/GM) — grew run-rate revenue more than 15x in under a year, selling agent discovery, pre-deployment adversarial testing, and runtime protection to frontier labs and Fortune 500s. The raise quantifies how fast 'secure the AI agents you're deploying' has become a standalone enterprise budget line.