AIR, şirketlerin yapay zeka ajanlarının kullandığı becerileri ve eklentileri incelemesine yardımcı olmak için 50 MİLYON $ topladı

As companies start giving AI agents access to an increasing portion of their systems, a nascent software supply chain seems to be forming around the new tooling AI agents are using: skills, plug-ins, MCP servers, and add-ons that let them interact with the internet.

AI security startup AIR believes companies will need a way to monitor that supply chain, and it s now coming out of stealth with $50 million raised across two seed rounds to build that product.

Founded by Yair Saban (CEO) and Niv Hoffman (CTO), veterans of Israel s Unit 8200 intelligence corps, where they worked on offensive cybersecurity, AIR offers a platform that can discover agents running inside companies, continuously vet any skills, tools, and components those agents use, and block them from interacting with software or external sources that don t pass security criteria. It also offers a marketplace of vetted add-ons and skills for AI agents.

The funding rounds closed within weeks of each other, Saban told TechCrunch, with the first round raising $10 million, and the second $40 million. Sequoia led the first round, while Greenoaks led the second, Saban said.

Swish, Netz, and Zach Frankel (president of Cognition), Yinon Costica (co-founder of Wiz), Ofir Ehrlich (co-founder of Eon), Anne Neuberger, Omer Adam, Varun Anand (co-founder of Clay), and other angel investors also participated.

AIR s pitch goes thusly: The way AI agents are used wholesale at companies is beginning to resemble operating systems, but the tools they use, or the software they can install, aren t yet being given the kind of oversight we give to drivers or applications.

In the early 2000s, whenever you installed a driver, the driver didn t need to be signed. Today, every time you install a driver, you see a signature saying who signed it, because the driver is actually loading code into the kernel, Saban said.