๐ฉบ Neo: Securing AI Agents at the Endpoint
Bessemer Venture Partners is leading a $100 million Series A in Neo Security, a startup building AI agent security purpose-built for the endpoint rather than retrofitted from legacy tools. Gartner projects 40% of enterprise applications will embed AI agents by year-end, yet CyberArk finds 68% of enterprises have no identity controls for the agents they've already deployed. Neo's platform observes agent traffic, auto-proposes policy, and lets security teams set guardrails in plain language via a built-in LLM. The founding team is led by CEO Nick Warner, who helped scale SentinelOne from $5M to over $500M ARR through its IPO. For fintech and enterprise investors, this signals AI agent security is becoming one of cybersecurity's hottest new categories.
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