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Venture capital firm focused exclusively on cybersecurity, investing in startups across the security technology sector.
Rig Security raised $12 million in seed funding to separate an AI agent's actions from those of the employee whose identity it borrows. The standard way to stop a misbehaving agent, disabling its account, locks out the person as well.
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Rig Security launched with $12 million to separate the actions of AI agents from those of the employees whose accounts they run under. Its early customers use it to learn whether a person or an agent took an action logged under an employee's name.
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HiddenLayer's revenue grew more than tenfold last year selling security for models, while the new money funds a coding-agent module announced on the same day, which makes this a round priced on next year's budget line.
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Gartner has AI-security spending up 83% year over year, which turns HiddenLayer's Series B into a bet on budgets rather than on counted attacks, and leaves buyers grading runtime tools with almost no renewal data.
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HiddenLayer says it will contribute to Prometheus, the Idaho-led federal effort to put AI into reactor work. The Phase II selection belongs to the consortium, and still depends on appropriations.
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