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Arrakis raises $8 million for AI agent runtime security
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Arrakis Security's funding signals growing investment in runtime detection-and-response and MCP-gateway controls for autonomous AI agents, an emerging defensive category defenders should track as agents gain credentials and tool access.
Arrakis Security raised an $8 million seed round led by Hetz Ventures to build runtime governance controls for enterprise AI agents, per a CTech report. The platform aims to discover sanctioned and shadow agents, inventory permissions, baseline behavior, inspect tool calls via an MCP gateway with allow-lists and DLP, and enforce actions such as blocking, revoking permissions or triggering a kill switch, plus red-teaming for multi-turn manipulation.