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Markets2026-08-05 · source-backed
Raised $113M led by Bessemer at a reported $640M valuation, four months after exiting stealth with $40M, with revenue quadrupling in that window. Its control plane centers on a "Guardian Agent" that watches other agents in real time and intervenes, claiming coverage of 1.1M agents and 1.8M employees across 66.2M analyzed sessions. That's the first hard deployment-scale number attached to the agent-governance vendor wave, and it's larger than I would have guessed.
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Bessemer invested in Act Security / Shared entity: Bessemer / Same source domain / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Bessemer invested in Act Security); both cover Bessemer; reported by the same outlet (securityweek.com).
Bessemer invested in Genius AI / Shared entity: Bessemer / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Bessemer invested in Genius AI); both cover Bessemer; earlier Bessemer coverage from 2026-07-28.
Shared entity: Bessemer / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Both cover Bessemer; overlapping topics (agent, bessemer); earlier Bessemer coverage from 2026-07-30.
Both cover Bessemer; overlapping topics (agent, control); earlier Bessemer coverage from 2026-07-25.
Both cover Bessemer; overlapping topics (bessemer, control); earlier Bessemer coverage from 2026-07-21.
Shared topic / Tension
Overlapping topics (agent, center, have); pushes against this story (vs).
Same source domain / Shared topic
Reported by the same outlet (securityweek.com); overlapping topics (agent, control).
Reported by the same outlet (securityweek.com); overlapping topics (agent, control).