🩺 Onyx Security: Bessemer Leads $113M Series B for the Agentic Enterprise's Control Plane
• Bessemer led Onyx Security's $113M Series B, building the "secure control plane" for enterprise AI agents — Bessemer calls it a category poised to produce the largest cybersecurity company yet.
• Just a year ago under 5% of enterprise work ran through AI agents; within two years that ratio inverts, with agent swarms doing most of the work.
• Onyx uses small, purpose-trained models plus "Guardian Agents" to approve, block, or redirect risky agent actions in real time — steering behavior instead of just blocking it.
• Bessemer's framing: "The internet created Palo Alto Networks. The endpoint created CrowdStrike. The cloud created Wiz." Agents, they argue, create the next one.
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