Neo Emerges From Stealth With $100 Million for Enterprise AI Security Platform
Summary
Neo emerged from stealth with $100 million in seed and Series A funding for a platform that inventories enterprise AI agents and software, identifies excessive privileges and configuration risks, traces actions to identities, and enforces policies.
Key points
- Neo raised $100 million across seed and Series A rounds from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Craft Ventures, and Merlin Ventures.
- The company says its platform catalogs AI agents, models, extensions, MCP servers, AI-enabled applications, and traditional software across enterprise environments.
- The platform evaluates discovered assets for excessive access privileges and configuration vulnerabilities.
- Neo says its product traces software actions to a human user, automated agent, or application identity, and can enforce policies for tool calls, data movement, workflows, and API access.
- Security teams can use the platform to restrict unauthorized activity or pause suspicious operations for manual review.
- Neo plans to use the funding to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Cybersecurity startup launch and funding announcement
- Impact
- Neo emerged from stealth with $100 million in seed and Series A funding to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams. Its platform is designed to help enterprises inventory and assess AI and other software, trace actions to their originating identities, enforce access and data-movement policies, and restrict or pause unauthorized or suspicious activity.
People
Eran ShiraziNeo co-founder and CTO; previously co-founded EasySend, according to the article.Nick WarnerNeo co-founder and CEO; described the company's platform and its purpose of governing and securing agentic software.Shlomi SalemNeo co-founder and CPO; previously led detection engineering at SentinelOne, according to the article.