AIR raises $50M to help companies vet the skills and add-ons AI agents use

An AI security startup has raised funding to build a platform that helps companies monitor and control the skills, plug-ins, and add-ons that AI agents use within their systems. As companies increasingly give AI agents access to their internal systems and the internet, a software supply chain is forming around these tools, creating potential security risks that companies currently lack ways to oversee. The platform discovers which AI agents are running in a company's environment, continuously evaluates whether the tools and skills those agents want to use are safe, and can block unsafe ones from being used. The startup argues that this type of vetting is needed because AI agent tools currently lack the security oversight that other types of software, like computer drivers, have received for years.