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

$50M. That's what AIR just raised to solve enterprise AI's biggest liability: rogue agents with unsupervised skills.

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Why it matters

As agents proliferate in production, visibility and control over agent behavior—what they can do, what add-ons they access, what they block—becomes table-stakes infrastructure. AIR is building the guardrails layer that enterprises need to deploy agents at scale without security theater.

The key facts

6 to know
  1. AIR raises $50M funding round

  2. Platform discovers agents running across a company

  3. Continuously vets skills and add-ons agents use

  4. Blocks unwanted agent behavior

  5. Agent governance and security infrastructure play

  6. Published Sep 1, 2026 — breaking funding news

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Publisher excerpt: AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and add-ons they use, and blocks any unwanted behaviour.
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