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Straiker

Discovers, red-teams and protects enterprise AI agents at runtime, with a kill switch

Pace
4:40/kmTempo4.0
Distance
Distance 10K.
Open ops roles
1
Last week
#224
Move
▼ 41
Peak
#224
Weeks in the 100
0
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Rank and score over time
Board rank
#214#241#268#224Oct 18#258Oct 25
Pace score
02464Oct 184Oct 25

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Straiker runs in the Tempo lane (4:40/km): 65 of 166. Further right = more momentum. No competitors on the board yet, so it runs alone.
Total raised
$85M (company-stated)see rounds ↓
Founded
2024
HQ
Mountain View, CA

Leadership

The problem

Security teams can't see which AI agents are running or stop one that's hijacked into leaking data

What they do

Discovers, red-teams and protects enterprise AI agents at runtime, with a kill switch

Traction Run-rate revenue up 15x+ in under a year; Fortune 500 and frontier-lab customers

Hiring trend

Open roles
5
Ops roles
1
Headcount
~90

Headcount 15 → 40 in 12 mo (Feb 2026), 64 at Series A (Jun 2026), ~88-99 on LinkedIn now (+170-200% YoY, est.)

Funding

Last round
$64M
Stage
Series A
Date
Jun 2026

Led by Marathon Management Partners, Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial, Workday Ventures

Distance

10K · edge: learns from use

Fast-growing standalone with a learning edge (production detections feed its testing and models), but it is a small player in a crowded field where Palo Alto, Check Point, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Cisco and F5 have bought AI-security startups and now bundle it into their platforms.

Sources: Straiker: $64M Series A, run-rate revenue up 15x+ (Jun 2026) ↗ · Forrester: Securing AI's M&A feeding frenzy (Sep 2025) ↗ · Palo Alto Networks completes Protect AI acquisition (Jul 2025) ↗ · Check Point acquires Lakera (Sep 2025) ↗

Last checked Oct 18, 2026

Funding historyTotal raised $85M (company-stated)

  1. Jun 2026Series A$64MLed by Marathon Management Partners, Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial, Workday Ventures prnewswire.com ↗
  2. Mar 2025Seed$21MLed by Lightspeed, Bain Capital Ventures prnewswire.com ↗

Profile facts checked Oct 19, 2026. Every fact links to its public source.

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