# AIR Raises $50M for AI Agent Security Vetting

> AIR has raised 50 million dollars total to tackle a problem that barely existed a year ago: keeping tabs on the AI agents inside a company. The money arrived in two chunks, a 10 million dollar seed led by Sequoia Capital and a 40 million dollar Series A led by Greenoaks. The platform discovers which AI agents are operating across a company's systems, monitors the skills and add-ons those agents pull in, and blocks interactions that look dangerous. As enterprises wire autonomous agents into real workflows, the security surface expands in ways traditional tools were never built to see. Founded by CEO Yair Saban and CTO Niv Hoffman, AIR already counts more than 20 customers and 40 employees, with angels from Cognition, Wiz, and Clay backing the round. It is a bet that agent security becomes its own category, the way cloud and identity security did, and that companies will pay to watch their own automation.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: TechCrunch · Published Tuesday, September 8, 2026_

## Wortins' read

AIR has raised 50 million dollars total to tackle a problem that barely existed a year ago: keeping tabs on the AI agents inside a company. The money arrived in two chunks, a 10 million dollar seed led by Sequoia Capital and a 40 million dollar Series A led by Greenoaks. The platform discovers which AI agents are operating across a company's systems, monitors the skills and add-ons those agents pull in, and blocks interactions that look dangerous. As enterprises wire autonomous agents into real workflows, the security surface expands in ways traditional tools were never built to see. Founded by CEO Yair Saban and CTO Niv Hoffman, AIR already counts more than 20 customers and 40 employees, with angels from Cognition, Wiz, and Clay backing the round. It is a bet that agent security becomes its own category, the way cloud and identity security did, and that companies will pay to watch their own automation.

## Source

[Read the full story at TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/air-raises-50m-to-help-companies-vet-the-skills-and-add-ons-ai-agents-use/)

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