Straiker
Track on RadarStraiker is an agentic AI security company, discovering, testing, & defending enterprises
- Total raised
- $85M
- Employees
- 62
- Founded
- 2024
- Momentum
- 57
Steady
Data updated August 2026
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Straiker is a cybersecurity company specializing in AI Security, founded in 2024 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, United States. It has raised $85M in total funding, employs about 62 people, and is privately held.
Straiker is the agentic AI security company purpose-built to protect enterprises as they deploy AI agents at scale. Founded by Ankur Shah (CEO) and Sreenath Kurupati (CTO), Straiker launched from stealth in early 2025 with $21 million in funding from Lightspeed Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures, and has since become one of the fastest-growing companies in the AI security space. The company's core thesis is that traditional security tools weren't built for the agentic era, where AI systems can reason, plan, and take autonomous actions across complex tool chains and data sources. Straiker addresses this with a three-product platform designed to give security teams full visibility and control across the AI agent lifecycle, covering coding agents, productivity agents, and custom-built agents. Discover AI, launched at RSAC 2026, provides agent inventory and risk detection. It automatically identifies AI agents, MCP servers, and connected tools across coding platforms, productivity suites, and agent frameworks, giving security teams a centralized view of what agents exist, where they run, and what systems they can access. It also detects misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and vulnerabilities across more than 12,000 MCP entries. Ascend AI delivers the highest attack success rate in the industry through continuous red-teaming and in-depth attack simulations against AI applications and agents. Straiker's AI engine is trained on a unique agentic dataset and supports frontier labs with pre-release agentic testing, which continuously improves attack success rates and informs stronger runtime defenses. Defend AI provides runtime protection, automatically blocking prompt injection attacks, tool misuse, and other threats across live agent deployments, with 98.1% threat detection accuracy. Within its first year of commercial operations, Straiker secured global enterprises and frontier AI labs, achieving multiple six- and seven-figure customer engagement.
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When was Straiker founded?▾
Straiker was founded in 2024.
Where is Straiker headquartered?▾
Straiker is headquartered in Sunnyvale, United States.
How much funding has Straiker raised?▾
Straiker has raised a total of $85M in total funding.
Is Straiker public or private?▾
Straiker is a privately-held company.
How many employees does Straiker have?▾
Straiker has approximately 62 employees.
What does Straiker do?▾
Straiker is the agentic AI security company purpose-built to protect enterprises as they deploy AI agents at scale. Founded by Ankur Shah (CEO) and Sreenath Kurupati (CTO), Straiker launched from stealth in early 2025 with $21 million in funding from Lightspeed Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures, an…