Straiker was released in Sunnyvale, California on March 27, 2025 and raised $21 million in funding from Lightspeed Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures. The company has implemented AI-Native security solutions designed to protect corporate AI applications and agents, focusing on mitigating critical security and safety risks.
The purpose of this solution is to address emerging threats such as mass data exfoliation, supply chain attacks, and autonomous chaos. These risks stem from leveraging the language of AI and inferring vulnerabilities.
Straiker co-founder and CEO Ankur Shah highlighted the expansion of the threat landscape. “Companies now have to act to stay ahead of these new risks and make AI security a top priority,” Shah said.
Straiker’s Platform offers automated red team-level ratings integrated with runtime safety and security guardrails. This continuous analysis enables real-time protection against multi-layered threats.
Platform strategies include integration of intelligence from multiple layers, including users, models, applications, agents, identities, and data. This layered approach ensures accurate assessment and protection across the board.
The Straiker launch includes two AI-Native modules designed to robustly address critical AI security concerns.
ASCEND AI: This module provides detailed attack simulations using a curation set of AI-specific threats. Ascend AI provides one-time risk assessments or continuous testing to ensure the proactive detection and resolution of underlying problems. Users can choose to use a one-time rating or continuous monitoring to address potential threats before they appear. Protect AI: This module surpasses rapid levels of threats to protect AI applications and agents from a wide range of security and security threats across different layers. Provides automated threat blocking, dynamically responding to risks detected by rising AI and reducing risk.
Both modules feature Straiker AI Engine and utilize fine-tuning models that infer beyond intelligence from all AI application layers. This design promotes accuracy and low latency for quick app performance. Straiker’s infrastructure ensures privacy concerns by customizing its own safety requirements.
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Straiker also hosts the Star Team, a dedicated AI security research team that assesses the risks of models and autonomous agents and tracks hostile tactics, techniques and procedures.
Customer support highlights the influence of Straker:
“Straiker was crucial in identifying and addressing generative AI native risks within the AI platform” – Aman Sirohi, Ciso, People AI. “Straiker helped remove security blind spots for B2B AI applications using a unique approach using Coupa’s CISOs Ken Ricketts and Ken Ricketts. “Straiker was able to launch a consumer-oriented AI application with confidence. With real-time protection for security and safety, there was no need to choose user experience and robust protection.” – CISO, a leading fintech company. “The security and safety risks of AI have been a major concern in preparing to launch AI experiences for customers. Straiker has helped to provide an assessment of the overall security and safety of your application with specific recommendations on how to fix these issues.” – Dan Garcia, CISO, Enterprise DB. “We have some AI initiatives internally. Straiker helped us provide an overall security and safety assessment of critical home country applications.” – Gulshan Kumar, Head of Technology Architecture, DirectV.
Investors also expressed their support:
“In the AI era, it’s necessary for someone to rethink security and take a fundamentally AI-native approach. It will become the next frontier in cyber. We were active in this field for a long time. We waited for the right team and technology until we met a striker. – Arif Janmohammed, partner at Lightspeed Ventures. “I have been in the industry as an operator and an investor for the past 50 years. I’ve been with AI now, so I’ve never been more excited about cyber.
Straiker was founded by veteran AI and cybersecurity veterans. It aims to protect all stages of the AI application lifecycle and to protect third-party AI applications.
Given today’s escalating threat environment where AI applications are virtually inevitable in business strategies, the emergence of Straiker should raise eyebrows among businesses, especially among content with traditional security measures.
Compared to those who stick to false, mainstream systems, it is appealing to monitor which businesses integrate Straiker’s insightful, subtle consultants into their defense mechanisms.
Security is no longer just a responsive measure. With products like Straiker’s Ascend AI and AI advocacy, businesses can view security as a proactive initiative, allowing AI apps and agents to implement resilient measures as well as protecting them to add value to business security.
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