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Operant AI

https://www.operant.ai/

Last activity: 02.09.2026

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Discover, Detect, and Defend all your AI, Agents, and MCP in real-time. Protect your Agentic AI ecosystem with Operant's comprehensive, real-time security solutions that provide discovery, detection, and defense against critical AI attacks while ensuring data privacy through auto-redaction and private mode operation. Trust the only vendor recognized across five Gartner AI security reports to secure your AI agents, AI, APIs, and MCP implementations against threats like prompt injection, data exfiltration, and zero-day vulnerabilities.

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Location: United States

Total raised: $10M

Investors 5

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Funding Rounds 1

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
20.09.2024	Series A	$10M	-

Mentions in press and media 26

Date	Title	Description
02.09.2026	ИИ-агентам понадобились антивирус и техосмотр: стартап AIR проверяет их навыки	ИИ-агент уже может не только отвечать на вопросы, но и получать доступ к базам данных, интернету и корпоративным системам. Для этого ему нужны дополнительные навыки, плагины и внешние инструменты. Проблема в том, что теперь бизнесу приходит...
06.02.2026	Operant AI Launches Agent Protector: The First Real-Time Agentic Security Solution Enabling Safe AI Agent Innovation at Scale	announced the launch of Agent Protector, a groundbreaking security solution purpose-built for the agentic AI era. As organizations rapidly adopt AI agents across cloud platforms, development environments, and enterprise workflows, Agent Pro...
19.06.2025	The AI Revolution: Navigating the New Frontier of Business Technology	The landscape of business technology is shifting. Companies are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) at an unprecedented pace. This surge is not just a trend; it’s a revolution. From enhancing customer engagement to fortifying cybersecuri...
16.06.2025	Operant AI Launches MCP Gateway: Enterprise-Grade Runtime Defense for MCP-Connected AI Applications	Revolutionary 3D Runtime Defense Technology Addresses Critical Security Blind Spots as MCP Adoption Explodes Across Enterprise AI Workflows Operant AI, the world’s only Runtime AI Defense Platform, announced the launch of MCP Gateway, a gro...
16.06.2025	Operant AI expands Gatekeeper platform with MCP Gateway for AI runtime security Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to p...	Operant AI Inc., a startup that offers a runtime application protection platform, today announced the launch of MCP Gateway, an expansion of its AI Gatekeeper platform that offers comprehensive security for Model Context Protocol applicatio...
23.05.2025	Woodpecker Takes Flight: A New Era in Open-Source Red Teaming	In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the stakes are high. Organizations face a barrage of threats, especially as they embrace cloud-native applications and artificial intelligence. Enter Woodpecker, a groundbreaking open-source ...
21.05.2025	Free open-source Woodpecker aims to make red-teaming more accessible	Runtime AI defense platform Operant AI is launching Woodpecker, an open-source, automated red teaming engine, that isn't for the birds but aims to make advanced security testing accessible to organizations of all sizes. As organizations inc...
21.05.2025	Operant Launches Woodpecker: Open-Source Automated Red Teaming Engine for Kubernetes, APIs, and AI	Operant AI, the world’s only Runtime AI Defense Platform, today announced Woodpecker, an open-source, automated red teaming engine, that will make advanced security testing accessible to organizations of all sizes. Woodpecker is designed to...
21.05.2025	Operant AI launches Woodpecker to bring open-source red teaming to AI and cloud environments Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our...	Operant AI Inc., a startup that offers a runtime application protection platform, today announced the launch of Woodpecker, an open-source, automated red teaming engine that helps make advanced security testing accessible to organizations o...
18.04.2025	The Rising Tide of AI Security: Navigating New Threats in a Digital Landscape	In the world of technology, change is the only constant. As enterprises dive deeper into artificial intelligence (AI), they face a tidal wave of challenges. The rapid adoption of AI applications is reshaping the security landscape. With thi...
16.04.2025	New watchdog platform designed to protect enterprise AI deployments	As enterprises turn to increasingly sophisticated AI applications and agentic AI workflows, the large cloud footprint required to support such complex systems has become critically difficult to secure. To address this issue Operant AI is la...
13.11.2024	Guarding the Digital Frontier: The Rise of AI Security Solutions	In the digital age, artificial intelligence (AI) is both a boon and a bane. It drives innovation but also invites threats. As organizations rush to adopt AI, they face a new battlefield. The stakes are high. The need for robust security mea...
12.11.2024	The Evolving Landscape of Cybersecurity: A Deep Dive into OSINT and AI Defense Mechanisms	In the digital age, information is power. Cybersecurity is the fortress that protects this power. As threats evolve, so must our defenses. Two critical components in this landscape are Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and advanced AI defens...
12.11.2024	Operant AI launches 3D Runtime Defense Suite for enhanced AI application security Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to...	Runtime application protection platform startup Operant AI Inc. today announced the launch of 3D Runtime Defense Suite, a suite that brings together discovery, detection and defense capabilities in real time to protect every layer of live c...
12.11.2024	New defense suite is designed to secure AI workloads	As organizations increasingly adopt AI capabilities, the most common and dangerous attacks often go undetected by static code scanning or traditional security methods. The only effective way to stop common AI attacks, such as prompt injecti...
12.11.2024	Operant AI Announces 3D Runtime Defense Suite to Secure Live AI Workloads	Automated in-line redaction and real-time data protection shields sensitive information across AI and cloud environments Operant AI, the world’s only Runtime Application Defense Platform, today announced its 3D Runtime Defense Suite, bringi...
26.09.2024	Cloud, edge or on-prem? Navigating the new AI infrastructure paradigm	Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More No doubt, enterprise data infrastructure continues to transform with technological innovation — most notably toda...
20.09.2024	Operant: Runtime AI Application Protection Platform Company Raises $10 Million (Series A)	Operant AI, the world’s only Runtime AI Application Protection Platform, announced that it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round co-led by SineWave Ventures and Felicis. Alumni Ventures, Massive, Calm Ventures, and Gaingels par...
12.09.2024	Operant AI's $10 Million Boost: A New Era in Cloud Security	In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, Operant AI has emerged as a beacon of innovation. The San Francisco-based startup recently secured $10 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $13.5 million. This investmen...
12.09.2024	Operant AI Secures $10 Million Series A to Protect the Modern Cloud Across APIs, Applications and AI	Funding will accelerate Operant AI’s leadership in bringing active runtime protection to every layer of the “cloud within the cloud” Operant AI, the world’s only Runtime AI Application Protection Platform, announced today that it has raised...
12.09.2024	Operant AI Secures $10M Series A Funding	SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Operant AI, the world's only Runtime AI Application Protection Platform, announced today that it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round. >> Click here for more funding data on Operant AI >> To exp...
12.09.2024	Operant AI raises $10M to expand runtime application protection platform Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provide ...	Runtime artificial intelligence application protection platform startup Operant AI Inc. today announced that it has raised $10 million in new funding to accelerate team and product expansion. Founded in 2020, Operant AI offers a runtime app...
12.09.2024	Operant AI Raises $10M in Series A Funding	Operant AI, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a runtime AI application protection platform, raised $10M in Series A funding. The round, which brought total funding to $13.5M, was led by SineWave Ventures and Felicis, with participation ...
26.04.2023	Operant is changing the way you secure cloud native applications	Containers and micro services may not be a new concept at this point, but lots of companies are struggling with the transition to cloud native applications, and the impact of that approach on their security. Operant is an early startup that...
-	Operant	“Operant AI shields every layer of modern applications, from Infra to APIs. Within minutes of a single-step deployment, Operant provides full-stack security visibility and runtime controls for every layer, blocking a wide range of common an...
-	Operant	“Operant is the only runtime application protection platform for cloud-native environments. Operant shields your applications with fine-grained security enforcements across every interaction and every cloud. All with zero instrumentation, z...

Operant AI

Investors 5

Funding Rounds 1

Mentions in press and media 26

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