Straiker
Founded
2024
Status
Private
Leadership
Ankur Shah - Co-Founder & CEO
Sreenath Kurupati - Co-founder & CTO
LSVP Investment
2024
Stage Invested
Seed
Lightspeed Team
Bucky Moore - Partner
Guru Chahal - Partner
Arif Janmohamed - Partner

Straiker is an AI-native security company building what it calls the first platform purpose-built to protect enterprise AI applications and autonomous agents. Its products pair automated, red-team-level assessment (Ascend AI) with real-time runtime guardrails (Defend AI) that detect and block prompt injection, data exfiltration, and tool manipulation across every layer of the AI stack. Powered by a medley of small, fine-tuned models and backed by its STAR threat-research team, Straiker helps organizations deploy AI and agentic systems with confidence.

Straiker