# Cyber Company Profiles: Akto

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## At a Glance

- Website: [akto.io](https://www.akto.io)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/akto
- Type: Security for AI, Application Security
- Also known as: Akto IO, Inc.
- Market readiness: Established (26/40)
- Defensibility: Exposed (12/21)
- Founded: 2022
- Funding: $11.5M total
- Last updated: 2026-07-15

## Executive Summary

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.

## 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 | 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. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2022 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | San Francisco, California, United States | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $11.5M total | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Series A, $7M | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| 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. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources):

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

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.

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

| Asset | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applications | ✓ |  | ✓ |  |  |

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.

## Market Readiness

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

**Established (26/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-08. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 |
| Market Timing | 4/5 |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 |
| GTM Proof | 3/5 |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 |

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## 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

**Exposed (12/21)**

Band guidance: pivot urgently. Analyzed 2026-07-15. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 |
| Layer | 2/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 |

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## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Akto homepage](https://www.akto.io/) | official | 2026-07-03 |
| f2 | [CB Insights: Akto company profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/akto-1) | research | 2026-07-03 |
| f3 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog: Akto](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/akto) | research | 2026-07-03 |
| f4 | [Akto API Security Platform page](https://www.akto.io/api-security) | official | 2026-07-03 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

The sources the full Market Readiness analysis cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Akto homepage (Fortune 1000 usage claim)](https://www.akto.io/) “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](https://www.akto.io/) “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)](https://www.akto.io/about) “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)](https://www.akto.io/about) “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](https://www.akto.io/about) “Airmeet_Anti_Logo_Reverse_Logo” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s6 | [Akto about page, analyst recognition blurb](https://www.akto.io/about) “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)](https://www.akto.io/about) “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)](https://www.akto.io/pricing) “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)](https://www.akto.io/api-security) “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](https://ai-security-docs.akto.io/) “Akto Atlas: Agentic AI Security for Employee Endpoints” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s11 | [Akto MCP security page (vendor-cited statistics, unattributed)](https://www.akto.io/mcp-security) “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)](https://api.github.com/repos/akto-api-security/akto) “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](https://trust.akto.io/) “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)](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidprosser/2022/11/03/akto-promises-to-protect-the-worlds-apis-from-cyber-attackers/) “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)](https://tfir.io/akto-raises-4-5m-in-seed-funding-as-it-builds-plug-n-play-api-security-platform/) “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)](https://venturebeat.com/security/api-security-devsecops/) “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)](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/akto-1) “Akto raised a total of $11.5M.” | research | 2026-07-03 |
| s18 | [AppSec Santa: Akto Review 2026 (Suphi Cankurt, updated May 19, 2026)](https://appsecsanta.com/akto) “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](https://awards.thehackernews.com/winners/2026/akto-ai-agent-security-platform/) “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)](https://www.akto.io/pricing) “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)](https://www.akto.io/pricing) “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)](https://www.akto.io/) “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)](https://api.github.com/repos/akto-api-security/akto) “MIT License” | official | 2026-07-03 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

The sources the full Strategy Deep Dive cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Akto homepage (Fortune 1000 usage claim)](https://www.akto.io/) “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](https://www.akto.io/) “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)](https://www.akto.io/about) “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)](https://www.akto.io/about) “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](https://www.akto.io/about) “Airmeet_Anti_Logo_Reverse_Logo” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s6 | [Akto about page, analyst recognition blurb](https://www.akto.io/about) “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)](https://www.akto.io/about) “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)](https://www.akto.io/pricing) “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)](https://www.akto.io/api-security) “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](https://ai-security-docs.akto.io/) “Akto Atlas: Agentic AI Security for Employee Endpoints” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s11 | [Akto MCP security page (vendor-cited statistics, unattributed)](https://www.akto.io/mcp-security) “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)](https://api.github.com/repos/akto-api-security/akto) “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](https://trust.akto.io/) “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)](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidprosser/2022/11/03/akto-promises-to-protect-the-worlds-apis-from-cyber-attackers/) “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)](https://tfir.io/akto-raises-4-5m-in-seed-funding-as-it-builds-plug-n-play-api-security-platform/) “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)](https://venturebeat.com/security/api-security-devsecops/) “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)](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/akto-1) “Akto raised a total of $11.5M.” | research | 2026-07-03 |
| s18 | [AppSec Santa: Akto Review 2026 (Suphi Cankurt, updated May 19, 2026)](https://appsecsanta.com/akto) “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](https://awards.thehackernews.com/winners/2026/akto-ai-agent-security-platform/) “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)](https://www.akto.io/pricing) “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)](https://www.akto.io/pricing) “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)](https://www.akto.io/pricing) “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)](https://api.github.com/repos/akto-api-security/akto) “MIT License” | official | 2026-07-03 |

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