Straiker
Also known as: Straiker, Straiker AI, Ascend AI, Defend AI, Discover AI, STAR Labs
Agentic-first AI security platform securing agents across their lifecycle through three modules: Discover AI (inventory of agents, tools, and MCP servers with shadow-usage detection), Ascend AI (continuous adversarial testing on every deployment, mapped to OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, and the EU AI Act), and Defend AI (sub-second runtime blocking of prompt injection, agent manipulation, and regulated-data leakage). Single-hook install, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified, ~$85M raised, customers include Comcast, Fortinet, Snowflake, and Deloitte.
Straiker is an agentic-first AI security platform that secures enterprise AI applications and autonomous agents across their full lifecycle. Three modules map to the agent lifecycle. Discover AI inventories every agent, tool, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in the environment, surfacing shadow usage and providing visibility into each agent's access, behavior, and risk. Ascend AI runs attack agents that continuously simulate prompt injection, tool misuse, and data exfiltration, executing on every deployment through native pipeline integration, plotting each attempt on a threat matrix, and mapping findings to the OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, and the EU AI Act. Defend AI enforces runtime protection with semantic detection that blocks prompt injection, agent manipulation, and leakage of regulated data at sub-second decision speed. The platform installs through a single hook with no infrastructure changes and draws intelligence from every layer of the AI stack: prompts, models, application, agents, identity, and data. Straiker pairs what it describes as the industry's most comprehensive agentic exploit dataset with an AI-native detection engine, works directly with frontier AI labs that use the platform to validate pre-release models, and runs its own threat research team, STAR Labs. The company holds ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 certification, belongs to the NVIDIA Inception program, the Cloud Security Alliance, and OWASP, and was named a Gartner Representative Vendor in the February 2026 Market Guide for Guardian Agents. Launched from stealth in March 2025, it describes itself as the fastest-growing agentic-first AI security company, with customers spanning Comcast, Fortinet, DIRECTV, Snowflake, Deloitte, financial services, healthcare, and direct-to-consumer enterprises. Within the AI-agent-security cluster of independents, Straiker is the agentic-first entrant with the strongest disclosed customer proof and the only retrieved first-party attestation stack.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.straiker.ai
Category
Security / SOC agent
Funding status
Independent California company (Sunnyvale/Mountain View) launched from stealth March 2025 with $21M from Lightspeed and Bain Capital Ventures; $64M Series A June 2026 co-led by Marathon Management Partners, Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and Workday Ventures, bringing total funding to ~$85M; co-founders Ankur Shah (CEO) and Sreenath Kurupati (CTO); Gartner Representative Vendor in the Feb 2026 Market Guide for Guardian Agents and sample vendor in the inaugural 2026 Hype Cycle for Agentic AI; customers include Comcast, Fortinet, DIRECTV, Snowflake, and Deloitte plus frontier AI labs
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Installs through a single hook with no infrastructure changes and integrates natively into deployment pipelines so adversarial testing runs on every release. Discovers and secures internally built and third-party agents, tools, and MCP servers, analyzing behavioral signals across models, prompts, tools, identity, and infrastructure. Listed on AWS Marketplace; findings map to the OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, and the EU AI Act.
Sources & related URLs
Research sources
Capability coverage
8.5 / 14 capabilities · 61%
| Integrations & Tool CallingSingle-hook installation with no infrastructure changes, native CI/CD pipeline integration running tests on every deployment, coverage of internally built and third-party agents, tools, and MCP servers, plus an AWS Marketplace listing, Security Stack directory and AWS Marketplace 2026-07-22 | Full |
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| Workflow OrchestrationAttack agents autonomously simulate prompt injection, tool misuse, and data exfiltration in continuous campaigns, feeding a discovery-testing-runtime lifecycle where frontier-lab and STAR Labs threat intelligence improves detections, Straiker materials and SecurityWeek 2026-07-22 | Full |
| Knowledge Grounding & RAGDetections grounded on a comprehensive agentic exploit dataset, STAR Labs threat research, and early attack-technique intelligence from frontier AI labs; not a general knowledge or RAG platform, Straiker and SecurityWeek 2026-07-22 | Partial |
| Human Oversight & GuardrailsRisk assessments with threat-matrix breakdowns by category delivered to security teams as actionable insights, with runtime guardrails enforcing configured policy; automated blocking runs autonomously, Straiker launch materials 2026-07-22 | Partial |
| Security, Identity & GovernanceSecurity is the product, with ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 certification, identity-layer signal analysis, regulated-data leakage blocking, and compliance mapping to the EU AI Act; serves financial services and healthcare, Security Stack directory 2026-07-22 | Full |
| Observability & AuditabilityDiscover AI inventories agents and surfaces shadow usage with visibility into access, behavior, and risk; Ascend AI plots every attack attempt on a threat matrix with per-risk-category breakdowns mapped to OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS, Straiker materials 2026-07-22 | Full |
| Memory & State PersistenceMaintains an agent, tool, and MCP server inventory with posture over time and analyzes behavioral signals across models, prompts, tools, identity, and infrastructure, Security Stack directory 2026-07-22 | Partial |
| Deployment & Data ResidencySingle-hook deployment without infrastructure changes and an AWS Marketplace listing; on-premise or options not retrieved, Straiker and AWS Marketplace 2026-07-22 | Partial |
| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & PacksThree productized lifecycle modules (Discover AI, Ascend AI, Defend AI) with curated AI-specific attack sets for simulation, Straiker materials 2026-07-22 | Partial |
| Triggers & Channel CoverageAdversarial testing runs continuously and on every deployment via pipeline integration, while Defend AI enforces real-time runtime protection with sub-second decisions, covering buildtime through runtime, Straiker materials 2026-07-22 | Full |
| Model Flexibility & RoutingNo customer-facing model choice or routing; Straiker's highly tuned detection models are internal to the product and it secures rather than serves models, Straiker materials 2026-07-22 | Unable to verify |
| APIs, SDKs & MCP ExtensibilityMCP server discovery and security coverage plus native pipeline and hook-based integration points, Security Stack directory 2026-07-22 | Partial |
| Testing, Debugging & OptimizationAscend AI is a first-class continuous adversarial-testing product running attack simulations on every deployment, with pre-deployment testing improved by threat-detection feedback, Straiker materials 2026-07-22 | Partial |
| Browser & Computer UseNo browser or computer-use capability documented; Straiker operates at the agent-traffic, pipeline, and runtime-policy layer, Straiker materials 2026-07-22 | Unable to verify |
Pricing
Contact sales
scope of agents, applications, and MCP servers secured across testing and runtime protection
What is public
The three lifecycle modules (Discover AI, Ascend AI, Defend AI), certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2), compliance mappings (OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, EU AI Act), and marquee customers are public; no plans, tiers, or dollar amounts are disclosed.
Variable cost rationale
Cost scales with the fleet of agents, applications, and MCP servers under discovery, adversarial testing, and runtime protection, growing as an organization's agent deployments expand.
Sales call required
Yes — required for paid access
Free / trial
Not published
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