GoKawiilAIR emerges from stealth with $50M to secure AI agent tools and plugins
Israeli startup AIR, founded by former Unit 8200 cybersecurity officers Yair Saban and Niv Hoffman, has raised $50 million across two seed rounds to build a platform that monitors and vets the skills, plugins, and MCP servers that AI agents use inside companies. The rounds, led by Sequoia and Greenoaks respectively, closed weeks apart and included several notable angel investors from the cybersecurity world.
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As enterprises hand AI agents broader access to internal systems, the add-ons and connectors those agents rely on form an unregulated software supply chain with little of the vetting applied to traditional drivers or applications. AIR's bet is that this gap will become a major security liability, and its rapid, oversubscribed fundraising signals investor belief that agent security tooling will be as essential as endpoint or driver signing was in earlier computing eras.
- AIR raised $50M in two seed rounds within weeks, led by Sequoia and Greenoaks.
- The platform discovers AI agents in company systems and continuously vets their tools, skills, and plugins.
- Founders compare unvetted AI agent add-ons to unsigned software drivers from the early 2000s, a security gap they aim to close.
Source: techcrunch.com — Ram Iyer, 2026-09-01
Published there as: “AIR raises $50M to help companies vet the skills and add-ons AI agents use”
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