# AIR Raises $50M to Vet AI Agent Security and Add-ons

> AIR has raised $50 million to police what AI agents are allowed to touch. Founded by Israeli intelligence veterans Yair Saban and Niv Hoffman, the company builds a security layer that discovers, evaluates, and blocks the skills, tools, and add-ons that agents reach for, on the theory that an autonomous system is only as safe as the least-trustworthy plugin it can call. The money came in two quick seed rounds, a $10 million round led by Sequoia followed by a $40 million round led by Greenoaks, funding an expansion to around 40 employees serving more than 20 customers. In practice, AIR says it filters out roughly 27 percent of the add-ons and skills it finds circulating online, maintaining a vetted whitelist of what agents can use. Its early traction is concentrated where the stakes are highest, in regulated industries like financial services and pharmaceuticals that want agentic automation but cannot afford an unvetted tool going rogue. It is a bet that as agents proliferate, someone has to be the bouncer at the door.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: TechCrunch · Published Thursday, September 3, 2026_

## Wortins' read

AIR has raised $50 million to police what AI agents are allowed to touch. Founded by Israeli intelligence veterans Yair Saban and Niv Hoffman, the company builds a security layer that discovers, evaluates, and blocks the skills, tools, and add-ons that agents reach for, on the theory that an autonomous system is only as safe as the least-trustworthy plugin it can call. The money came in two quick seed rounds, a $10 million round led by Sequoia followed by a $40 million round led by Greenoaks, funding an expansion to around 40 employees serving more than 20 customers. In practice, AIR says it filters out roughly 27 percent of the add-ons and skills it finds circulating online, maintaining a vetted whitelist of what agents can use. Its early traction is concentrated where the stakes are highest, in regulated industries like financial services and pharmaceuticals that want agentic automation but cannot afford an unvetted tool going rogue. It is a bet that as agents proliferate, someone has to be the bouncer at the door.

## 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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