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Akto describes Fortune 1000 security teams as its users, yet the public record shows no named case study or independently corroborated reference for the AI agent security platform it now leads with. The named evidence on record is vendor-published: an open-source API security tool, review ratings that also appear on its API-security page, and an AI-security logo wall that includes Airmeet and Plivo. Since June 2025 Akto has shipped quickly, first a security product for MCP, the protocol AI agents use to reach tools, then a full agent-security platform, then further feature releases into 2026. Akto has raised $11.5 million in total. The company's product list has grown faster than its roster of named references. It fits best for teams willing to validate the product in their own pilot.
| Description | Agentic AI and API security platform that discovers AI agents, MCP servers, and APIs, runs continuous red teaming against them, and enforces runtime guardrails, with an open-source API security core. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2022 | [f2] |
| HQ | San Francisco, California, United States | [f1] |
| Funding | $11.5M total | [f2] |
| Latest funding | Series A, $7M | [f2] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Akto Atlas | Discovers and governs AI agents, MCP tools, and LLM use on employee endpoints, applying guardrails to shadow AI usage across workstations and devices. |
| Akto Argus | Secures homegrown AI agents and applications with agentic discovery, automated red teaming, posture management, and runtime guardrails, including an MCP proxy. |
| Akto API Security Platform | Discovers APIs, tests them for vulnerabilities in CI/CD, and detects API threats, built on an open-source core distributed under the MIT license. |
AI Defense Matrix
| Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-Workload Platforms Inference servers, training platforms, vector DB platforms, and the model-loading supply chain. | ||||||
| AI Orchestration Tools Agentic orchestration tools, plus their plugins, skills, hooks, system prompts, scaffolding, harnesses, configuration settings, and MCP clients on user devices. | ||||||
| AI-Generated Code Code produced by AI tools, AI-assisted reviews, AI-generated infrastructure-as-code and tests, and vibe-coded apps that bypass CI/CD. | ||||||
| AI Gateways & Routers MCP proxies and gateways, LLM routers, outbound AI-service traffic, shadow AI egress, and model-registry traffic. | ||||||
| AI Model Model weights, fine-tuning checkpoints, model cards, registries, AIBOM, and the third-party LLMs your enterprise consumes. | ||||||
| Training Data Datasets used for training, fine-tuning, and continued learning. | ||||||
| Runtime AI Data User prompts, inference inputs, RAG content, vector DB content, persistent agent memory, and interaction history. | ||||||
| AI Agent Identities AI agents as non-human principals, plus credentials, keys, permission scopes, service accounts, and delegation chains across agents and tools. |
Akto Argus and Akto Atlas discover AI agents, MCP servers, and the tools they connect to, red-team them, and enforce runtime guardrails against prompt injection and data leakage. These capabilities are mapped to the AI Defense Matrix. [f3]
Cyber Defense Matrix
| Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devices Workstations, servers, phones, tablets, storage, network devices, IoT infrastructure, and similar hardware. | |||||
| Applications Software, interactions, and application flows on the devices. | |||||
| Networks Connections and traffic flowing among devices and apps, plus communication paths. | |||||
| Data Content at rest, in transit, or in use across devices, apps, and networks. | |||||
| Users The people using the devices, apps, networks, and data. |
The Akto API Security Platform discovers and inventories APIs, tests them for vulnerabilities in the CI/CD pipeline, and detects API threats, defending conventional application assets. These capabilities are mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f4]
How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.
| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs, demos, and third-party validation. | 4/5 |
| Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. | 4/5 |
| Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. | 3/5 |
| GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. | 3/5 |
| Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. | 3/5 |
| Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. | 3/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. | 3/5 |
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| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. | 2/3 |
| Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. | 2/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. | 1/3 |
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| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | Akto homepage | official | 2026-07-03 |
| f2 | CB Insights: Akto company profile | research | 2026-07-03 |
| f3 | AI Defense Matrix Catalog: Akto | research | 2026-07-03 |
| f4 | Akto API Security Platform page | official | 2026-07-03 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Akto homepage (Fortune 1000 usage claim) “Akto is the trusted AI Agent Security Platform by Fortune 1000 security teams.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s2 | Akto homepage, platform overview, displays G2 4.8 (24+) and Gartner Peer Insights 4.5 (45+) badges, the latter labeled Akto API Protection “Akto maps every AI agent and MCP tool, gives visibility, runs continuous red teaming, and enforces guardrails at scale.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s3 | Akto about page, leadership and popular features list (MCP Proxy) “Ankush Jain Co-Founder & CTO Ankita Gupta Co-Founder & CEO” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s4 | Akto about page news timeline (MCP Security launch June 6, 2025, AI Agent Security Platform launch September 26, 2025, partnerships April 23, 2026) “Akto Announces Partnerships with Langchain, Portkey, TrueFoundry, Arcade, and LiteLLM to expand AI Agent Security across your AI tech stack.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s5 | Akto about page, The Enterprises Trusting Akto logo carousel, customer names Airmeet and Plivo appear as image data attributes in the served HTML “Airmeet_Anti_Logo_Reverse_Logo” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s6 | Akto about page, analyst recognition blurb “Akto is listed as a Representative Vendor in Gartner's 2025 Guide for Securing AI Agents, alongside the vendors defining how enterprises secure agentic AI systems.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s7 | Akto about page, State of Agentic AI Security 2026 survey blurb (vendor-run survey) “The State of Agentic AI Security 2026 survey reveals a critical disconnect: 69% of enterprises are deploying AI agents, but only 21% have full inventory of their agents.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s8 | Akto pricing page (Cloud and Self Hosted plans, contact-sales motion, navigation lists financial services, SaaS, healthcare, public sector solutions) “Akto offers usage based Enterprise-grade pricing for Modern AI Security Teams.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s9 | Akto API Security Platform page (displays 2024 Gartner Market Guide for API Protection Representative Vendor mention) “Akto named as Representative Vendor in 2024 Gartner Market Guide for API Protection Akto builds the world's first plug-n-play API security platform.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s10 | Akto agentic AI docs: Atlas for employee endpoints, Argus for homegrown AI, red teaming, guardrails, MCP registry, Splunk SIEM, Jira, ServiceNow “Akto Atlas: Agentic AI Security for Employee Endpoints” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s11 | Akto MCP security page (vendor-cited statistics, unattributed) “82% of analyzed MCP server implementations are vulnerable to path traversal attacks.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s12 | GitHub API, akto-api-security/akto repository (MIT license, created January 31, 2023) “Proactive, Open source API security, API discovery, API Security Posture, Testing in CI/CD, Test Library with 1000+ Tests, Add custom tests, Sensitive data exposure” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s13 | Akto Trust Vault portal, browser-rendered, public compliance list, downloads behind Get Access, SOC 2 file Akto_Io__Inc._SOC_2_Type_2_Report_2025.pdf “HIPAA SOC 2 GDPR ISO 27001:2022 ISO 27017:2015 ISO 27018:2019 ISO 27701:2019” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s14 | Forbes: Akto Promises To Protect The World's APIs From Cyber Attackers (David Prosser, November 3, 2022, quotes co-founders Gupta and Jain) “The $4.5 million is coming from Accel India, which is leading the round, as well as a group of angel investors, and is earmarked for further product development, as well as market outreach.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s15 | TFiR: Akto Raises $4.5M In Seed Funding (November 2022) “a $4.5 million seed funding round led by Accel India with participation from angel investors Akshay Kothari (co-founder and COO of Notion), Renaud Deraison (co-founder Tenable) and Milin Desai (CEO of Sentry), among others.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s16 | VentureBeat: Akto raises $4.5M in funding (Tim Keary, November 3, 2022, names Noname Security and Traceable AI as key competitors) “Cybersecurity provider Akto, which today announced raising $4.5 million in seed funding, aims to mitigate these cyberthreats by providing organizations with a platform to create a real-time inventory of APIs to secure the entire DevSecOps pipeline.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s17 | CB Insights: Akto company profile (Series A stage, last raised $7M, founded 2022, San Francisco, competitors include Pynt) “Akto raised a total of $11.5M.” | research | 2026-07-03 |
| s18 | AppSec Santa: Akto Review 2026 (Suphi Cankurt, updated May 19, 2026) “Akto shipped one of the first dedicated MCP security solutions in June 2025 and launched the full Agentic Security Platform in September 2025.” | research | 2026-07-03 |
| s19 | The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026 winner page for Akto “2026 WINNER, CYBERSECURITY STARS AWARDS Akto, Agentic AI Security Platform Best Agentic Exposure Management Platform” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s20 | Akto pricing page, feature highlights (compliance mapping) “Audit-ready records mapped to compliance frameworks such as EU AI Act, OWASP, MITRE ATLAS etc” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s21 | Akto pricing page, feature highlights (agent context mapping) “Context-maps each agent to the MCP servers, tools and databases it connects to” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s22 | Akto homepage threat catalog (tool poisoning, line jumping, tool shadowing, prompt injection via tool output, broken authorization, rug pull attacks) “Tool Poisoning Attackers compromise MCP-connected tools to manipulate agent behavior, extract context, or return malicious outputs.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s23 | GitHub API, akto-api-security/akto license object and activity (pushed_at July 2, 2026) “MIT License” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Akto homepage (Fortune 1000 usage claim) “Akto is the trusted AI Agent Security Platform by Fortune 1000 security teams.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s2 | Akto homepage, platform overview, displays G2 4.8 (24+) and Gartner Peer Insights 4.5 (45+) badges, the latter labeled Akto API Protection “Akto maps every AI agent and MCP tool, gives visibility, runs continuous red teaming, and enforces guardrails at scale.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s3 | Akto about page, leadership and popular features list (MCP Proxy) “Ankush Jain Co-Founder & CTO Ankita Gupta Co-Founder & CEO” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s4 | Akto about page news timeline (MCP Security launch June 6, 2025, AI Agent Security Platform launch September 26, 2025, partnerships April 23, 2026) “Akto Announces Partnerships with Langchain, Portkey, TrueFoundry, Arcade, and LiteLLM to expand AI Agent Security across your AI tech stack.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s5 | Akto about page, The Enterprises Trusting Akto logo carousel, customer names Airmeet and Plivo appear as image data attributes in the served HTML “Airmeet_Anti_Logo_Reverse_Logo” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s6 | Akto about page, analyst recognition blurb “Akto is listed as a Representative Vendor in Gartner's 2025 Guide for Securing AI Agents, alongside the vendors defining how enterprises secure agentic AI systems.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s7 | Akto about page, State of Agentic AI Security 2026 survey blurb (vendor-run survey) “The State of Agentic AI Security 2026 survey reveals a critical disconnect: 69% of enterprises are deploying AI agents, but only 21% have full inventory of their agents.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s8 | Akto pricing page (Cloud and Self Hosted plans, contact-sales motion, navigation lists financial services, SaaS, healthcare, public sector solutions) “Akto offers usage based Enterprise-grade pricing for Modern AI Security Teams.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s9 | Akto API Security Platform page (displays 2024 Gartner Market Guide for API Protection Representative Vendor mention) “Akto named as Representative Vendor in 2024 Gartner Market Guide for API Protection Akto builds the world's first plug-n-play API security platform.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s10 | Akto agentic AI docs: Atlas for employee endpoints, Argus for homegrown AI, red teaming, guardrails, MCP registry, Splunk SIEM, Jira, ServiceNow “Akto Atlas: Agentic AI Security for Employee Endpoints” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s11 | Akto MCP security page (vendor-cited statistics, unattributed) “82% of analyzed MCP server implementations are vulnerable to path traversal attacks.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s12 | GitHub API, akto-api-security/akto repository (MIT license, created January 31, 2023) “Proactive, Open source API security, API discovery, API Security Posture, Testing in CI/CD, Test Library with 1000+ Tests, Add custom tests, Sensitive data exposure” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s13 | Akto Trust Vault portal, browser-rendered, public compliance list, downloads behind Get Access, SOC 2 file Akto_Io__Inc._SOC_2_Type_2_Report_2025.pdf “HIPAA SOC 2 GDPR ISO 27001:2022 ISO 27017:2015 ISO 27018:2019 ISO 27701:2019” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s14 | Forbes: Akto Promises To Protect The World's APIs From Cyber Attackers (David Prosser, November 3, 2022, quotes co-founders Gupta and Jain) “The $4.5 million is coming from Accel India, which is leading the round, as well as a group of angel investors, and is earmarked for further product development, as well as market outreach.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s15 | TFiR: Akto Raises $4.5M In Seed Funding (November 2022) “a $4.5 million seed funding round led by Accel India with participation from angel investors Akshay Kothari (co-founder and COO of Notion), Renaud Deraison (co-founder Tenable) and Milin Desai (CEO of Sentry), among others.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s16 | VentureBeat: Akto raises $4.5M in funding (Tim Keary, November 3, 2022, names Noname Security and Traceable AI as key competitors) “Cybersecurity provider Akto, which today announced raising $4.5 million in seed funding, aims to mitigate these cyberthreats by providing organizations with a platform to create a real-time inventory of APIs to secure the entire DevSecOps pipeline.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s17 | CB Insights: Akto company profile (Series A stage, last raised $7M, founded 2022, San Francisco, competitors include Pynt) “Akto raised a total of $11.5M.” | research | 2026-07-03 |
| s18 | AppSec Santa: Akto Review 2026 (Suphi Cankurt, updated May 19, 2026) “Akto shipped one of the first dedicated MCP security solutions in June 2025 and launched the full Agentic Security Platform in September 2025.” | research | 2026-07-03 |
| s19 | The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026 winner page for Akto “2026 WINNER, CYBERSECURITY STARS AWARDS Akto, Agentic AI Security Platform Best Agentic Exposure Management Platform” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s20 | Akto pricing page, feature highlights (compliance mapping) “Audit-ready records mapped to compliance frameworks such as EU AI Act, OWASP, MITRE ATLAS etc” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s21 | Akto pricing page, feature highlights (agent context mapping, continuous risk assessment per asset) “Context-maps each agent to the MCP servers, tools and databases it connects to” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s22 | Akto pricing page, feature highlights (endpoint deployment and SIEM feed) “Deploy Akto Endpoint Shield via MDM tools such as Intune, NinjaOne, Automox and more” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s23 | GitHub API, akto-api-security/akto license object and activity (pushed_at July 2, 2026) “MIT License” | official | 2026-07-03 |
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