Straiker, a Mountain View (California) startup for the safety of artificial intelligence agents that Ankur Shah (ceo) and Sreenath Kurupati (cto) founded, secured a Series A round of 64 million US Dollars for a total of 85 million US Dollars raised since its birth in 2025 and attracted the resources of lead investors Marathon Management Partners, Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial, Workday Ventures, and Neva, a venture capital firm of Milan-listed Intesa Sanpaolo’s Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, joined the (press release of Straiker and press release of Neva ).
Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners also poured resources in the round. Gokul Rajaram, a founding partner of Marathon Management Partners, will be part of Straiker board of directors. The company will invest such resources in accelerating the development of the platform, expanding the research activities of STAR Labs and support its international commercial expansion.
The company is developing a cybersecurity platform for protecting the new generation of AI agents and autonomous software capable of reasoning, using IT tools, accessing corporate data and carrying out tasks independently. The growing adoption of Agentic AI within businesses is creating a new attack surface that requires specific protection tools.
Straiker is experiencing a rapid growth. Straiker increased its annualised recurring revenue more than 15-fold in less than a year and its clients list includes Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s leading artificial intelligence laboratories.
Shah commented: “Ensuring the security of artificial intelligence agents is one of the most challenging and pressing issues in today’s landscape. Some of the world’s largest companies already rely on us to identify, test and protect the AI agents they are deploying. Partners such as Neva and the Intesa Sanpaolo Group enables us to extend this protection to a greater number of businesses worldwide.”
Mario Costantini, ceo of Neva, added: “Straiker effectively rose to one of the challenges of our time –safeguarding the adoption of Agentic AI – and earned the trust of numerous customers and investors. This is exactly the sort of company we aim to support with our funds: one capable of developing technology that makes digital transformation not only powerful, but also secure.”
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