Neo Launches with $100M to Secure AI Software Across the Enterprise
The company will expand marketing and engineering as Gartner says agentic capabilities will rise from 5% of enterprise applications in 2025 to 40% by 2026.
- On Monday, Israeli-US software company Neo Security emerged from stealth with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures.
- Gartner reports agentic application adoption is surging, rising from 5% of enterprise applications in 2025 to a projected 40% by the end of 2026, creating urgent security demands.
- CEO Nick Warner said the platform provides a "real-time control layer" for enterprises to "secure adoption without slowing down the business." The technology helps organizations govern agentic software safely.
- Competitors Straiker and NewCore have raised $64 million and $66 million respectively for similar agentic security solutions, signaling rapid category formation as enterprises prioritize autonomous software governance.
- Headquartered in Boston with a development center in Tel Aviv, Neo will deploy the capital to expand engineering and marketing teams as enterprises scale agentic software adoption.
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While the industry is debating what AI agents can do, a startup founded by veterans of SentinelOne, Wiz and Palo Alto Networks has decided to focus on a different question: what should they be prevented from doing. Neo came out of the stealth mode on Monday with $100 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Bessemer Venture Partners, with the participation of Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures. The goal is to build a real-time control layer f…
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