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Funding and backers

Total raised
$85M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$64M
Series A · Jun 2026 · 3 mo ago
Team
21
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +75% in a year
Backers
3
Illuminate Financial, Lightspeed Venture Partners
The money's age
Fresh money
3 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
35/100
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Jun 28 Raised a round Series A $64M · BnkInfoSecurity 2025 Team of 21 was 12 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Oct 30, 2025 Recognition Straiker Recognized as a Fortune Cyber 60 Company for Second Consecutive Year · YahooFinance Aug 5, 2025 Launched Straiker Introduces Industry's First Attack and Defense Agents to Secure Enterprise Agentic AI Applications · marketwatch.com Apr 1, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $21M · Pulse 2.0 2024 Founded
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Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Jun 2026 $64M — BnkInfoSecurity
Venture round Apr 2025 $21M — Pulse 2.0
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Overview

Straiker provides security testing and runtime guardrails for enterprise artificial intelligence applications and autonomous agents. Founded in 2024 in Silicon Valley by former Palo Alto Networks and Symantec leaders, it combines offensive testing with inline defence. Its research team publishes work on novel agent attack techniques.

News

Press release PRNewswire 2 months ago
Straiker Named an OpenAI Select Partner
/PRNewswire/ -- Straiker, The Agentic Security Company, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. The...
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News Forbes 3 months ago
AI-Powered Cyberattacks: Understanding The Less Obvious Part
To understand how to defend the modern enterprise, it's necessary to identify the three primary forces affecting the threat environment:
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News TNW Artificial-intelligence 4 months ago
Straiker raises $64M to secure enterprise AI agents
Agentic security startup Straiker has raised a $64M Series A led by Marathon to discover, test and protect the AI agents flooding into enterprises.
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News SiliconANGLE 4 months ago
Straiker lands $64M to defend enterprise AI agents from attack
Straiker lands $64M to defend enterprise AI agents from attack - SiliconANGLE
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News Pulse 2.0 4 months ago
Straiker Raises $64 Million Series A To Secure Enterprise AI Agents
Straiker announced that it has raised $64 million in Series A funding to secure enterprise AI agents. The round was led by Marathon Management Partners, Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and Workday Ventures, with continued support from Bain Capital Ve
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News BnkInfoSecurity 4 months ago
Straiker Raises $64M to Safeguard Autonomous AI Agents
AI security startup Straiker closed a $64 million Series A funding round to expand GPU infrastructure, develop specialized security models and strengthen defenses
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News Forbes 4 months ago
How To Build A Company To Withstand The SaaS Apocalypse
When everyone has intelligence, intelligence stops being the moat. Context becomes the moat.
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News Forbes 6 months ago
Cybersecurity Tasks That Shouldn't Fall Solely On Security Teams
When accountability is clear and distributed across leadership, operations and technical teams, organizations are better positioned to reduce risk and bottlenecks.
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Sunnyvale United States
HQ
157 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, United States
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Mountain View United States
Regional office
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321 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
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Financials

Total raised
$85M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2026 $64M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $21M Details