Welcoming the newest member of the @MarathonMP family @straikerai !! The Marathon Continues!
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I'm incredibly excited for @MarathonMP to lead @straikerai’s $64M Series A and to join the board. My partner @AlexGorgoni and I will work with our friends at Citi Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), and Lightspeed to help co-founders Ankur Shah and Sreenath Kurupati build a generational company.
AI agents are the fastest-growing workforce in enterprise history. IDC expects more than 1 billion AI agents deployed across enterprises by 2029, 40x the number in 2025. No workforce in enterprise history has scaled this fast. Every CISO I've spoken with is staring at the same situation: business teams are deploying agents into production faster than security teams can even inventory them. SaaS-era security tools weren't built for software that reasons and acts on its own.
Straiker is purpose-built for the agentic era: discovery of every agent across the enterprise, pre-deployment adversarial testing through STAR Labs, and runtime protection that catches threats as they happen. The product capabilities compound through threats caught in production feeding back into pre-deployment testing., and vulnerabilities found in testing feeding back into runtime defenses. Importantly, Straiker's partnerships with frontier AI labs put new attack patterns into the detection engine before they reach a customer.
The combination of Unstoppable trend and Exceptional product is leading to incredible customer pull. The more enterprise security buyers and frontier AI labs we spoke with, the more excited we got as we heard how differentiated and powerful the Straiker platform is. The proof is in the numbers. Run-rate revenue has grown 15x+ in less than a year.
Ankur Shah and Sreenath Kurupati are a rare founder pair. Either one alone would have been sufficient reason to invest. Together, they're the perfect team to redefine agentic security. Ankur scaled Palo Alto Networks' Prisma Cloud as SVP and GM into one of the largest cloud security franchises in the world. He is one of the best product and business leaders I've ever met: equal parts product instinct, customer obsession, and operating discipline. Sreenath founded Cyberfend, a fraud detection company acquired by Akamai, and then led AI and security research there. I've known him since our undergrad days together, and is one of the best technical and product minds I've ever worked with (I was also an advisor to Cyberfend :)).
We are honored to work with Ankur, Sreenath, and the Straiker team to build the company that defines how the agentic workforce gets secured.
