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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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Cyera signed an LOI to acquire Oasis Security for roughly $1 billion, about $700M in cash (SecurityWeek). Act Security came out of stealth with $60M total, a $20M seed from Team8 and Bessemer plus a $40M Series A led by Notable Capital (SecurityWeek). Hush Security closed a $3...
Series D led by Lux Capital with Bessemer, Imaginary Ventures, L Catterton Growth, 2048 Ventures and StepStone, taking total past $125M. Dropping the category word from the name is the tell: a salon-and-spa vertical SaaS repositioning as an AI company at the Series D, not the...
An additional $60 million on July 29 backed by B Capital, Bessemer, Micron, MediaTek, Ericsson, and ScOp. The strategic-investor mix is the signal: three chip and telecom vendors on the cap table means vertical agent companies are being funded by the customers whose workflows...
Neo launched July 20 with $100M from a16z and Bessemer plus Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures, built by former SentinelOne, Wiz and Palo Alto operators. It sells SecOps teams inventory, attribution and policy control over agents, AI-enabled apps, browsers and identities, trea...
Boston-based Neo raised $100M in combined seed and Series A from a16z, Bessemer, Craft Ventures, and Merlin Ventures to help teams "see, review, and control AI-enabled software," while Empirical Security raised $25M Series A led by Brightmind Partners. A $100M seed-plus-A is a...
InfoWorld reports the release centers on a dedicated surface for managing concurrent agent sessions, not a chat sidebar. Read alongside JetBrains Air and ReSharper 2026.2 from last week, IDE vendors have converged on multi-session management as the new primary UI primitive. Th...
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