# Cyber Company Profiles: Airia

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Analyzed 2026-08-21
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## At a Glance

- Website: [airia.com](https://airia.com)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/airia
- Type: Security for AI, Governance Risk Compliance
- Also known as: Airia LLC
- Market readiness: Established (26/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (13/21)
- Founded: 2024
- Funding: $100M total
- Last updated: 2026-08-21

## Executive Summary

Airia sells an enterprise platform that finds the AI tools and agents running inside a company, then enforces policy on what those agents may do. A Cloud Security Alliance working group verified that Airia checks every agent tool call against policy before it runs, at the baseline of two conformance levels. Airia pitches that to security and AI transformation teams. The roles in the record are a data-services manager, an IT associate and a project manager, plus customer stories crediting product, operations, writers and producers. Gartner Peer Insights carries a 4.2 rating from 22 ratings, one review of which is readable without a login. A buyer should establish which team will own Airia, because the reviewed sources do not settle who holds the budget.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Airia sells an enterprise platform that finds the AI agents, models and MCP servers running inside a company, enforces policy on what those agents may do when they call a tool, and produces governance records for auditors. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2024 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Atlanta, United States | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $100M total | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | $100M announced September 2025 from co-founder John Marshall, $50M invested and $50M committed | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Airia AI Discovery | Finds AI agents, model API calls and MCP servers across identity, network, application, API and code signals, then records them in one inventory with owners and permissions. |
| Airia MCP Gateway | Routes agent tool calls through a governed gateway drawn from a catalog of more than 1,000 pre-configured integrations, applying policy, permissions and audit to each call. |
| Airia Agent Constraints | A policy engine that limits which tools an agent may invoke, validates execution parameters, and routes high-impact actions to human review before they run. |
| Airia Responsible AI Guardrails | Runtime checks on prompts and model responses that block injection and jailbreak attempts, mask regulated data, and apply configurable content thresholds. |
| Airia AI Security Posture Management | Routes AI activity through one policy layer so teams can inspect traffic, block unsafe behaviour, standardise controls and govern new deployments from a central view. |
| Airia Agent Red Teaming | Runs simulated attacks against agents, covering prompt injection, tool manipulation and chained scenarios, and maps the findings to recognized security frameworks. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Orchestration Tools |  | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |
| AI Gateways & Routers |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |  |
| AI Agent Identities |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |  |
| Runtime AI Data |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |

Airia AI Discovery inventories the agents, model calls and MCP servers running in an enterprise, Airia MCP Gateway and Airia Agent Constraints gate what those agents may invoke at the tool call, and Airia Responsible AI Guardrails inspects prompts and responses. Mapped to the AI Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Established (26/40)**

Analyzed 2026-08-21. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 | Airia names the problem plainly, that agents and model calls spread through an enterprise outside any inventory, and its discovery page ties that to identity, network, application, API and code signals. The pain is asserted by the vendor and echoed in an analyst market definition rather than quantified by an independent measurement. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 | A public knowledge base carries administrator, security, governance and developer guides alongside a published Python SDK, and a Cloud Security Alliance working group verified the runtime enforcement against a written testing protocol. That conformance is at Core, the baseline of the two levels the specification defines. \[[s23](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 4/5 | Airia announced its placement in a Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI governance platforms published in June 2026 and in a Forrester agentic control plane landscape covering 33 vendors, and the Cloud Security Alliance conformance program for agent runtime security is documented on the standard's own site. The enabler is agents that call enterprise tools directly, which Airia met by building an MCP gateway and a catalogue of more than 1,000 pre-configured connectors. \[[s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 | Chairman John Marshall co-founded AirWatch, which VMware acquired for $1.54 billion in 2014, and he ran Airia until Kevin Kiley took the chief executive role in September 2025. That build and exit are in enterprise device management rather than in AI security, and the reviewed sources show no sustained publication record in the market Airia sells into. \[[s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 4/5 | Airia publishes eight named customer stories, among them Mars, ArcelorMittal, Northwestern, Kyndryl and 8x8, and Optiv and GuidePoint Security appear on its partner page. Gartner Peer Insights carries 22 ratings, which is user evidence Airia did not publish, and the customer-scale figure of more than 300 enterprises reaches a reader through coverage of Airia's own funding announcement rather than through an audited disclosure. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 2/5 | Airia raised $100 million from one investor, co-founder John Marshall, about a year after it emerged from stealth, with $50 million invested and $50 million committed. That is a large raise for the stage, and the reviewed sources disclose no revenue, margin or growth-efficiency figure, so no measure of return on it appears in the record. \[[s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources), [s20](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 | Analysts place Airia in more than one category. Airia announced a Visionary placement in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for AI governance platforms and a listing in Forrester's agentic control plane landscape. Gartner Peer Insights lists Airia in four markets, naming AI application development platforms and AI governance platforms, with Dataiku first among the alternatives beside it. \[[s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | Airia intercepts agent tool calls before they run, which embeds it in the workflow a customer would otherwise have to rewire. Microsoft is both a subprocessor for Airia's own hosting and the publisher of an open-source agent governance toolkit that meets the Extended level of the conformance specification Airia meets at Core, so the bundling pressure is concrete. \[[s11](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- Microsoft could fold agent policy enforcement into the Azure services Airia itself runs on, removing the reason to buy a separate control plane.
- Airia could stay at the baseline Core conformance level while the four Extended holders keep the higher one.
- The teams that own Airia today may be IT and AI platform teams rather than security teams, which would change who has to be convinced at renewal.
- One Gartner Peer Insights reviewer reports inconsistent performance under heavy usage and incomplete workflows, and repeat reports would undercut a product whose value is enforcement at the moment of the tool call.
- The announced $100 million financing has a single investor, so a change in John Marshall's appetite would leave Airia without an outside funding relationship the record can point to.

### Problem & Market

Enterprises are running AI that nobody catalogued, and Airia sells the catalogue plus the controls. Its discovery product looks for agents, model API calls and MCP servers across identity logs, network traffic, SaaS applications, APIs and code repositories, then records what it finds with an owner and a permission set attached.

The second half of the pitch is enforcement rather than inventory. Airia describes stopping unauthorised agent actions at the execution layer, before a tool call fires, an email sends or a database query runs, which is a different promise from a dashboard that reports on AI usage after the fact.

Airia's placement announcement quotes Gartner describing the category as platforms that centrally define, approve and enforce responsible AI policies across AI use cases, applications and agents. Airia sells to that description, and an analyst's category definition is not a measurement of what the problem costs buyers. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

Airia ships a set of security capabilities that share one runtime. AI Discovery builds the inventory, MCP Gateway carries agent tool calls to the connectors an agent uses to reach enterprise systems, Agent Constraints decides which tools an agent may invoke and validates the parameters, Responsible AI Guardrails inspects prompts and responses, and Agent Red Teaming attacks the agents on purpose.

Airia describes the enforcement as code rather than as documentation. Airia writes that constraints run at the execution layer and that every agent inherits the same controls regardless of who built it or where it runs, and its Cloud Security Alliance conformance covers exactly that behaviour: intercept the action, evaluate it against policy and session context, then allow, deny, modify, defer or step it up.

Airia documents four ways to run the platform: managed SaaS, dedicated cloud including AWS GovCloud and Azure Government, on-premises installation on VMware, Kubernetes and bare metal, and hybrid architectures where control plane components run in one environment while execution components run in another. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

The Cloud Security Alliance registry compares Airia with its rivals on published criteria. It lists 102 builders, of which eight hold either conformance level, and it records Airia at the lower one. Airia holds Core, the baseline six requirements, while Noma Security, Runlayer, Operant AI and Microsoft's open-source Agent Governance Toolkit hold Extended, which adds semantic drift tracking, telemetry export and runtime least-privilege enforcement.

The same registry records what each product covers. Airia's row records MCP and API, while the four Extended entries add endpoints, SaaS, cloud, databases and network between them. A buyer comparing runtime enforcement alone would read that row as narrower coverage at a lower conformance level.

Airia also sells the build side, which the registry does not measure. The platform prototypes, builds and runs agents as well as policing them, and the customer stories describe teams doing both on one system. \[[s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

Airia names its customers. Eight customer stories name Mars, ArcelorMittal, Northwestern, BuzzFeed, KOA, Learning Care Group, 8x8 and Kyndryl, and a named individual at the Houston-Galveston Area Council is quoted on the demo page about keeping information from leaving the organisation.

The roster is broader than the corroboration behind it. SiliconANGLE reported more than 300 enterprise customers and more than 150 employees when it covered the September 2025 funding announcement, and no independent measurement of either figure appears in the reviewed sources. Gartner Peer Insights carries 22 ratings averaging 4.2 and gates the review bodies behind a login, with one review's text readable and a second surfaced as a title and a score. That is still user evidence Airia did not publish itself.

Two security-focused firms appear in the partner listing. Airia lists Optiv and GuidePoint Security alongside AWS, Microsoft and Google, and the programme separately describes referral and implementation tracks for partners that deploy and configure Airia for clients. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s22](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

Airia's chairman built and sold an earlier enterprise software company. John Marshall co-founded AirWatch, which VMware acquired for $1.54 billion in 2014, and served as Airia's chief executive before moving to chairman in September 2025 when Kevin Kiley took the role.

The about page lists a chief trust officer, a chief scientist, engineering leaders for EMEA and for India, and sales leaders for EMEA and for Australia and New Zealand. Airia staffs for selling into large enterprises across several regions rather than for testing a single market.

The pedigree is adjacent to the market rather than native to it. Device management is not AI security, so what the record supports about this team is enterprise execution and access rather than depth in defending agents. \[[s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

Airia publishes a hosted trust centre, and it lists more than badges. The portal lists ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2, a HIPAA compliance assessment report, the Data Privacy Framework and a penetration testing report, alongside control summaries covering infrastructure, organisational, product and internal security.

The subprocessor list is worth reading for a different reason. Microsoft Azure and Foundry appear as the core cloud infrastructure subprocessor, so Airia's own service depends on a company whose open-source Agent Governance Toolkit is listed in the conformance registry at the Extended level.

Federal authorisation is a different matter from the deployment options. Airia documents installation into AWS GovCloud and Azure Government for customers who need them, and no federal authorisation held by Airia itself appears in the reviewed sources. \[[s11](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Noma Security | competes with | Listed beside Airia in the Cloud Security Alliance conformance registry for agent runtime security, at the Extended level rather than Airia's Core. |
| Runlayer | competes with | Listed beside Airia in the same Cloud Security Alliance conformance registry, at the Extended level rather than Airia's Core. |
| Operant AI | competes with | Listed beside Airia in the same Cloud Security Alliance conformance registry, at the Extended level rather than Airia's Core. |
| Microsoft | competes with | Its open-source Agent Governance Toolkit is listed in the same conformance registry at the Extended level, and Microsoft is also Airia's core cloud infrastructure subprocessor. |
| Dataiku | adjacent | Gartner Peer Insights lists it first among the alternatives shown beside Airia's own profile. |

## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Contested (13/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-08-21. Scope: whole company.

Airia evaluates every agent tool call against policy before it runs, and that interception is the capability a Cloud Security Alliance working group verified. Its registry lists 102 builders, eight of which hold either conformance level, and puts Airia at Core, the baseline, while Noma Security, Runlayer, Operant AI and a Microsoft open-source toolkit hold Extended. The same registry records Airia's reach as agent tool calls and APIs, where all four also cover cloud and SaaS traffic. No dataset, model or corpus that Airia keeps appears in the reviewed sources, so what a funded rival would have to reproduce is engineering rather than an accumulated asset. What the record verifies is the control point at the baseline level, and it does not reach the rest of the platform a buyer pays for.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 | Airia delivers software the customer's team configures and operates, whether Airia hosts it or the customer installs it in their own cloud or data centre, and the customer owns the outcomes. Nothing in the reviewed sources describes Airia accepting responsibility for what an agent does. \[[s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | The MCP Gateway carries every agent tool call and Agent Constraints run as code at the execution layer, so leaving means re-pointing agent traffic and rebuilding the policies. The switching mechanism is documented and the cited record does not size the migration. \[[s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | The trust centre lists SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001:2022, a HIPAA assessment report and the Data Privacy Framework, all of which a funded competitor obtains through ordinary enterprise-market preparation. No authorisation that would block a replacement, such as a federal authority to operate carried by the product itself, appears in the reviewed sources. \[[s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Capturing every agent action, building session context, evaluating it against policy and returning a decision before the action executes is real-time systems work, and Airia layers prompt and response inspection and adversarial agent testing on top of it. A Cloud Security Alliance working group verified that control loop against a published testing protocol. \[[s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 | The customer stories Airia publishes name large enterprises plus a public-sector body, among them Mars, ArcelorMittal, Northwestern, Kyndryl and Learning Care Group, whose story cites the auditability its regulators require, and Airia's demo page quotes a manager at the Houston-Galveston Area Council. Airia also documents AWS GovCloud and Azure Government deployment for government customers. \[[s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s22](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 2/3 | Alongside the gateway and the policy engine Airia lists an agent builder, a prototyping studio, model routing and cost optimisation, and its developer hub adds a mobile SDK and an Airia Chat application, so customers meet it as a platform with substantial application features. The pure-infrastructure reading fits the gateway rather than the product a customer buys. \[[s23](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 | The reviewed sources name no dataset, model or corpus Airia retains. The connector catalogue is product content rather than accumulated data, and Airia's own company description lists more than 2,500 pre-built agent templates in the same character, and the record's one intellectual-property signal is dozens of patent filings still pending, carried in an outlet's summary of Airia's own funding announcement. \[[s20](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

Airia sells to large organisations that already run AI in several places at once. The customer stories Airia publishes name ArcelorMittal, Mars, Northwestern, BuzzFeed, Kyndryl, 8x8 and Learning Care Group, and the Learning Care Group story cites the auditability its regulators require.

Airia describes its buyer two different ways. A banner repeated across its product pages addresses security and AI transformation teams, and its newswire boilerplate groups security, compliance and IT teams together.

Government buyers appear on both sides of the record. Airia's demo page quotes a manager at the Houston-Galveston Area Council, and the one reviewer whose review text is readable without a login works in government at an organisation of 5,000 to 50,000 employees. \[[s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s22](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

Airia rests its technical case on interception. It describes stopping agent actions at the execution layer before a tool call fires, and the Cloud Security Alliance conformance record spells the loop out: capture the action, build session context, evaluate it against policy, then allow, deny, modify, defer or step it up, and write a signed receipt.

The rest of the platform is what a buyer can compare feature by feature. Discovery reads identity, network, application, API and code signals. Guardrails inspect prompts and responses for injection attempts, sensitive data and toxicity. Red teaming runs prompt-injection, tool-manipulation and chained attacks against deployed agents.

What the reviewed sources do not carry is a measurement. No benchmark, no detection rate and no third-party evaluation of accuracy appears in them, so the capability claims stand on the conformance verification and on Airia's own descriptions. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

Airia goes to market through named references and a partner programme. Eight customer stories carry named logos and one-line descriptions of what each organisation does with the platform, and the partner page lists Optiv and GuidePoint Security alongside Microsoft, AWS and Google, with referral and implementation tracks described for partners.

Airia sells hard on analyst placement. It announced a Visionary position in Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for AI governance platforms, a listing in Forrester's agentic control plane landscape among 33 vendors, and earlier appearances in a Gartner market guide, all announced by Airia itself rather than carried as independent coverage in the reviewed sources.

Award announcements make up much of the rest of the newsroom. Airia posted wins in the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards and in CIO Review's Enterprise AI Orchestration Platform of the Year among others, and a reader should weigh trade-award volume as marketing output rather than as buyer preference. \[[s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s18](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s19](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

The reviewed pricing path leads to a demo request rather than to prices. It resolves to a page offering a 30-minute slot with a solutions engineer, framing the conversation around use cases, a security and governance walkthrough and a rollout plan.

A free entry point existed at the time of the funding announcement. FinTech Global reported that thousands of organisations had signed up to a free starter tier, and no self-serve tier appears on the reviewed pages.

What the reviewed pages describe is a sales-assisted motion, with a solutions engineer walking a buyer through security, governance and rollout before any commercial terms appear. \[[s22](#deep-dive-sources), [s20](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

Airia gives customers four ways to run the platform. The documented options are managed SaaS on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, dedicated cloud including AWS GovCloud and Azure Government, on-premises installation on VMware, Kubernetes or bare metal, and hybrid splits where the control plane and the execution run in different environments.

Airia hosts the platform in its managed option, and the rules agents run under are the ones the customer defines. The reviewed sources describe no service in which Airia operates those controls on the customer's behalf or accepts responsibility for what an agent does.

Gartner Peer Insights qualifies that picture. The dislike excerpt its insight module carries is one reviewer's list, covering inconsistent performance under heavy usage, incomplete workflows and slow support response, and the same themes title the one review the page marks critical. Those complaints land harder against a control that runs in the execution path than they would against a reporting tool. \[[s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

Airia publishes a hosted trust centre with documents behind it rather than badges alone. The portal names ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2, a HIPAA compliance assessment report, the Data Privacy Framework and a penetration testing report, and it groups control summaries by category.

The conformance listing tests something the certificates do not. A Cloud Security Alliance working group reviewed an evidence package against a published testing protocol and recorded Airia at the Core level, which checks the product's behaviour rather than the company's control environment.

No federal authorisation held by Airia itself appears in the reviewed sources. Airia documents deployment into AWS GovCloud and Azure Government, which is a customer-side environment rather than an authorisation Airia carries. \[[s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

Airia builds its ecosystem out of connectors and partners. The MCP Gateway draws on a catalogue of more than 1,000 pre-configured integrations, and SiliconANGLE describes the security framework underneath it as model-agnostic.

The dependency worth naming is Microsoft. Azure and Foundry appear on the trust centre as the core cloud infrastructure subprocessor, Airia launched a model risk management capability integrated with Microsoft Foundry, and Microsoft's own open-source Agent Governance Toolkit holds the Extended conformance level in the registry where Airia holds Core.

The developer surface is real but modest. A public knowledge base carries administrator, security, governance and developer guides, and a Python SDK is published on PyPI with its source repository named in the package description. \[[s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s19](#deep-dive-sources), [s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s23](#deep-dive-sources), [s24](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

Airia's chairman built and sold an earlier enterprise software company. John Marshall co-founded AirWatch, acquired by VMware for $1.54 billion in 2014, and ran Airia until Kevin Kiley took the chief executive role in September 2025, at which point Marshall became chairman.

Airia staffs for selling across regions. The about page lists a chief trust officer, a chief scientist, a VP of engineering for EMEA and a VP of technology for India, plus sales leaders for EMEA and for Australia and New Zealand, alongside offices in Atlanta, Miami, London, Sofia, Bangalore, Melbourne and Singapore.

Marshall's experience is adjacent to the market rather than native to it. Device management is not AI security, and no published security research from Airia's team appears in the reviewed sources. Two founding dates appear in the record. SiliconANGLE and FinTech Global, covering the September 2025 funding, date the founding to the previous year and the emergence from stealth to about a year before that coverage, and Gartner's company record lists 2022. \[[s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s20](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Airia: homepage, platform overview](https://airia.com) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| f2 | [SiliconANGLE: Airia raises $100M from its co-founder](https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/16/airia-raises-100m-co-founder-build-security-foundation-enterprise-ai/) | press | 2026-08-21 |
| f3 | [Gartner Peer Insights: Airia reviews and company record](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/product/airia-813846165) | research | 2026-08-21 |
| f4 | [Airia: security overview page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/security) | official | 2026-08-21 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Airia: homepage, platform overview](https://airia.com) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s2 | [Airia: about page, leadership and offices](https://airia.com/about) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s3 | [Airia: security overview page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/security) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s4 | [Airia: AI Discovery product page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/ai-discovery) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s5 | [Airia: Agent Constraints product page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/agent-constraints) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s6 | [Airia: Responsible AI Guardrails product page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/guardrails) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s7 | [Airia: Agent Red Teaming product page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/agent-red-teaming) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s8 | [Airia: MCP Gateway capabilities page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/mcp-capabilities) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s9 | [Airia: customer stories index](https://airia.com/airia-in-action) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s10 | [Airia: deployment options page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/deployment) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s11 | [Airia: Trust Center, rendered](https://trust.airia.com) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s12 | [SiliconANGLE: Airia raises $100M from its co-founder](https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/16/airia-raises-100m-co-founder-build-security-foundation-enterprise-ai/) | press | 2026-08-21 |
| s13 | [AARM: builder registry, conformance and coverage table](https://aarm.dev/builders) | other | 2026-08-21 |
| s14 | [AARM: about the specification and conformance levels](https://aarm.dev/about) | other | 2026-08-21 |
| s15 | [Gartner Peer Insights: Airia reviews and company record](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/product/airia-813846165) | other | 2026-08-21 |
| s16 | [GLOBE NEWSWIRE: Airia announcement of AARM conformance](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/03/3337426/0/en/Airia-Achieves-AARM-Conformance-Joins-Select-Group-of-Verified-AI-Runtime-Security-Platforms.html) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s17 | [GLOBE NEWSWIRE: Airia announcement of Gartner Magic Quadrant placement](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/06/22/3315345/0/en/Airia-Named-as-a-Visionary-in-the-2026-Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-for-AI-Governance-Platforms.html) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s18 | [Airia: partners page](https://airia.com/partners) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s19 | [Airia: newsroom index](https://airia.com/category/airia-news) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s20 | [FinTech Global: report on Airia funding and company facts](https://fintech.global/2025/09/18/ai-security-platform-airia-bags-100m-investment/) | press | 2026-08-21 |
| s21 | [Airia: AI Security Posture Management product page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/security-posture-management) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s22 | [Airia: pricing path probe, resolved to the demo-request page](https://airia.com/pricing) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s23 | [Airia: developer hub overview in the product knowledge base](https://airia.ai/docs/developers-hub/capabilities/intro) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s24 | [PyPI: airia Python SDK package page](https://pypi.org/project/airia/) | other | 2026-08-21 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Airia: homepage, platform overview](https://airia.com) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s2 | [Airia: about page, leadership and offices](https://airia.com/about) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s3 | [Airia: security overview page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/security) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s4 | [Airia: AI Discovery product page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/ai-discovery) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s5 | [Airia: Agent Constraints product page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/agent-constraints) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s6 | [Airia: Responsible AI Guardrails product page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/guardrails) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s7 | [Airia: Agent Red Teaming product page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/agent-red-teaming) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s8 | [Airia: MCP Gateway capabilities page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/mcp-capabilities) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s9 | [Airia: customer stories index](https://airia.com/airia-in-action) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s10 | [Airia: deployment options page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/deployment) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s11 | [Airia: Trust Center, rendered](https://trust.airia.com) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s12 | [SiliconANGLE: Airia raises $100M from its co-founder](https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/16/airia-raises-100m-co-founder-build-security-foundation-enterprise-ai/) | press | 2026-08-21 |
| s13 | [AARM: builder registry, conformance and coverage table](https://aarm.dev/builders) | other | 2026-08-21 |
| s14 | [AARM: about the specification and conformance levels](https://aarm.dev/about) | other | 2026-08-21 |
| s15 | [Gartner Peer Insights: Airia reviews and company record](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/product/airia-813846165) | other | 2026-08-21 |
| s16 | [GLOBE NEWSWIRE: Airia announcement of AARM conformance](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/03/3337426/0/en/Airia-Achieves-AARM-Conformance-Joins-Select-Group-of-Verified-AI-Runtime-Security-Platforms.html) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s17 | [GLOBE NEWSWIRE: Airia announcement of Gartner Magic Quadrant placement](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/06/22/3315345/0/en/Airia-Named-as-a-Visionary-in-the-2026-Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-for-AI-Governance-Platforms.html) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s18 | [Airia: partners page](https://airia.com/partners) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s19 | [Airia: newsroom index](https://airia.com/category/airia-news) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s20 | [FinTech Global: report on Airia funding and company facts](https://fintech.global/2025/09/18/ai-security-platform-airia-bags-100m-investment/) | press | 2026-08-21 |
| s21 | [Airia: AI Security Posture Management product page](https://airia.com/ai-platform/security-posture-management) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s22 | [Airia: pricing path probe, resolved to the demo-request page](https://airia.com/pricing) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s23 | [Airia: developer hub overview in the product knowledge base](https://airia.ai/docs/developers-hub/capabilities/intro) | official | 2026-08-21 |
| s24 | [PyPI: airia Python SDK package page](https://pypi.org/project/airia/) | other | 2026-08-21 |

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