# Cyber Company Profiles: Koi

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## At a Glance

- Website: [koi.ai](https://www.koi.ai/)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/koi
- Type: Security for AI, Endpoint Security, Application Security
- Status: acquired
- Also known as: Koi Security, Koi Security Ltd.
- Market readiness: Established (30/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (13/21)
- Founded: 2024
- Funding: $48M total
- Last updated: 2026-07-12

## Executive Summary

Koi is an Israeli endpoint-security company that Palo Alto Networks bought in April 2026, roughly two years after its January 2024 founding. It secures the software employees and developers install on their own, from browser extensions and code packages to AI models, AI agents, and the MCP servers that connect AI agents to company tools. Its Wings engine scores each item's risk in real time, and a Supply Chain Gateway approves or blocks installs by policy before they reach a machine. Koi showed traction before the sale: named customers including OpenAI, Fireblocks, and FHLBank Dallas among roughly forty to fifty accounts. Palo Alto Networks keeps Koi's capabilities standalone and plans a Cortex XDR module and Prisma AIRS integration for a category it calls agentic endpoint security.

## 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 | Koi is an endpoint-security platform that discovers, risk-scores, and gates installs of self-provisioned software across endpoints, including browser extensions, code and OS packages, AI models, AI agents, and MCP servers. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Acquisition | Palo Alto Networks, announced 2026-02-17 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2024 | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Tel Aviv, Israel | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $48M total | [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | $38M Series A (September 2025, led by Battery Ventures and Team8) | [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Koi | Agentless platform that inventories self-provisioned software, risk-scores it with the Wings engine, and gates installs of extensions, packages, AI models, agents, and MCP servers by policy. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f6\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Orchestration Tools |  | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |
| AI Model |  |  | ✓ |  |  |  |

Koi discovers and inventories MCP servers, AI agents, and extensions across endpoints, risk-scores them with the Wings engine, gates risky installs by policy, and vets AI models from registries such as Hugging Face before they reach endpoints. These capabilities are 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 (30/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-09. Scope: whole company.

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

**Contested (13/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-07-12. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 |
| 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 | [Koi homepage: unified platform to secure all software](https://www.koi.ai/) | official | 2026-07-06 |
| f2 | [Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of Koi to Secure the Agentic Endpoint](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/company/press/2026/palo-alto-networks-completes-acquisition-of-koi-to-secure-the-agentic-endpoint) | official | 2026-07-06 |
| f3 | [Ctech: Palo Alto Networks completes $400 million acquisition of Koi](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/nu6ccmpyw) | press | 2026-07-06 |
| f4 | [SDxCentral: Palo Alto Networks collects Koi in completed acquisition](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/palo-alto-networks-collects-koi-in-completed-acquisition/) | press | 2026-07-06 |
| f5 | [Ctech: Cyber startup Koi raises $38M Series A](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/syoe1xjslx) | press | 2026-07-06 |
| f6 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping (aligned to catalog)](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/koi/) | other | 2026-07-06 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

The sources the full Market Readiness analysis cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Koi homepage: Wings agentic AI risk engine](https://www.koi.ai/) “Wings, our agentic AI risk engine, correlates code diffs, runtime behavior, ownership changes, update channels, network egress, and install source to detect malware, impersonation, and policy drift in real time.” | official | 2026-07-06 |
| s2 | [Koi homepage: Supply Chain Gateway registries](https://www.koi.ai/) “A Supply Chain Gateway (SCG) is a new architectural layer that acts as a single, proactive network-based gate for curating incoming software from marketplaces, app stores, or registries like Github, Hugging Face, Chrome Web Store, Visual Studio Code Marketplace, Homebrew, and more.” | official | 2026-07-06 |
| s3 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog: Koi](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/koi/) “Endpoint security for software supply chains that inventories, risk-scores, and gates installs of MCP servers, AI models, AI agents, extensions, and packages by policy.” | other | 2026-07-06 |
| s4 | [Ctech: Cyber startup Koi raises $38M Series A (founders)](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/syoe1xjslx) “Koi was founded in 2024 by IDF's 8200 intelligence unit alumni Amit Assaraf (CEO, founder of real estate startup Landa), Idan Dardikman (CTO), and Itay Kruk (CPO), ex-Sygnia, Zscaler, after uncovering a major security gap in the VSCode Marketplace.” | press | 2026-07-06 |
| s5 | [Ctech: Cyber startup Koi raises $38M Series A (funding)](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/syoe1xjslx) “Koi has raised $38 million in a Series A round. The investment was led by Battery and Team8, with Picture Capital, NFX, and Cerca Partners participating in the company's Seed round. Koi has raised a total of $48 million to date.” | press | 2026-07-06 |
| s6 | [Ctech: Koi CEO on early revenue and retention](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/syoe1xjslx) “We exceeded seven-figure revenues in eight months. We are now generating over $1 million in revenue, and every organization we began with is still our client.” | press | 2026-07-06 |
| s7 | [Ctech: Palo Alto Networks completes $400 million acquisition of Koi](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/nu6ccmpyw) “Palo Alto Networks has completed its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi, finalizing a deal previously estimated at around $400 million.” | press | 2026-07-06 |
| s8 | [SDxCentral: Koi named customers](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/palo-alto-networks-collects-koi-in-completed-acquisition/) “Koi counts between 40 and 50 clients, including OpenAI, Fireblocks, FHLBank Dallas, as well as Palo Alto Networks itself.” | press | 2026-07-06 |
| s9 | [SDxCentral: Dell'Oro analyst on Koi's install and supply-chain layer](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/palo-alto-networks-collects-koi-in-completed-acquisition/) “Koi's value is at the install and supply-chain layer on the endpoint, where extensions and packages are becoming an expanding blind spot for many enterprises.” | press | 2026-07-06 |
| s10 | [Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of Koi (Agentic Endpoint Security)](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/company/press/2026/palo-alto-networks-completes-acquisition-of-koi-to-secure-the-agentic-endpoint) “By integrating Koi's technology with Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks will extend visibility and security to agentic AI on the endpoint ... this acquisition enables Palo Alto Networks to introduce a new module for Cortex XDR.” | official | 2026-07-06 |
| s11 | [Koi trust-surface probe 2026-07-06: footer badges, no trust./security. subdomain or /security page](https://www.koi.ai/) “Footer badges served as image files gdpr.svg, soc.svg, and ico.svg reading ISO 27001, SOC, and GDPR. No trust. or security. subdomain resolves and /security returns 404 (probe 2026-07-06).” | other | 2026-07-06 |
| s12 | [Koi blog: early customers](https://www.koi.ai/blog/koi-raises-48m-to-reinvent-endpoint-security-for-the-modern-software-stack) “It is this approach that our early customers, Fortune 50 organizations, BFIS, and the world's biggest tech and cybersecurity vendors, are excited about.” | official | 2026-07-06 |
| s13 | [FinSMEs: Koi raises $48M (endpoint scale)](https://www.finsmes.com/2025/09/koi-raises-48m-in-seed-and-series-a-funding.html) “The company has rapidly scaled to protect more than 500,000 endpoints worldwide. Its platform is already securing some of the world's largest enterprises, from Fortune 50 companies to leading financial enterprises and major technology companies.” | press | 2026-07-06 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

The sources the full Strategy Deep Dive cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Koi homepage: Wings agentic AI risk engine](https://www.koi.ai/) “Wings, our agentic AI risk engine, correlates code diffs, runtime behavior, ownership changes, update channels, network egress, and install source to detect malware, impersonation, and policy drift in real time.” | official | 2026-07-06 |
| s2 | [Koi homepage: Supply Chain Gateway registries](https://www.koi.ai/) “A Supply Chain Gateway (SCG) is a new architectural layer that acts as a single, proactive network-based gate for curating incoming software from marketplaces, app stores, or registries like Github, Hugging Face, Chrome Web Store, Visual Studio Code Marketplace, Homebrew, and more.” | official | 2026-07-06 |
| s3 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog: Koi](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/koi/) “Endpoint security for software supply chains that inventories, risk-scores, and gates installs of MCP servers, AI models, AI agents, extensions, and packages by policy.” | other | 2026-07-06 |
| s4 | [Ctech: Cyber startup Koi raises $38M Series A (founders)](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/syoe1xjslx) “Koi was founded in 2024 by IDF's 8200 intelligence unit alumni Amit Assaraf (CEO, founder of real estate startup Landa), Idan Dardikman (CTO), and Itay Kruk (CPO), ex-Sygnia, Zscaler, after uncovering a major security gap in the VSCode Marketplace.” | press | 2026-07-06 |
| s5 | [Ctech: Cyber startup Koi raises $38M Series A (funding)](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/syoe1xjslx) “Koi has raised $38 million in a Series A round. The investment was led by Battery and Team8, with Picture Capital, NFX, and Cerca Partners participating in the company's Seed round. Koi has raised a total of $48 million to date.” | press | 2026-07-06 |
| s6 | [Ctech: Koi CEO on early revenue and retention](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/syoe1xjslx) “We exceeded seven-figure revenues in eight months. We are now generating over $1 million in revenue, and every organization we began with is still our client.” | press | 2026-07-06 |
| s7 | [Ctech: Palo Alto Networks completes $400 million acquisition of Koi](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/nu6ccmpyw) “Palo Alto Networks has completed its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi, finalizing a deal previously estimated at around $400 million.” | press | 2026-07-06 |
| s8 | [SDxCentral: Koi named customers](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/palo-alto-networks-collects-koi-in-completed-acquisition/) “Koi counts between 40 and 50 clients, including OpenAI, Fireblocks, FHLBank Dallas, as well as Palo Alto Networks itself.” | press | 2026-07-06 |
| s9 | [SDxCentral: Dell'Oro analyst on Koi's install and supply-chain layer](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/palo-alto-networks-collects-koi-in-completed-acquisition/) “Koi's value is at the install and supply-chain layer on the endpoint, where extensions and packages are becoming an expanding blind spot for many enterprises.” | press | 2026-07-06 |
| s10 | [Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of Koi (Agentic Endpoint Security)](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/company/press/2026/palo-alto-networks-completes-acquisition-of-koi-to-secure-the-agentic-endpoint) “By integrating Koi's technology with Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks will extend visibility and security to agentic AI on the endpoint ... this acquisition enables Palo Alto Networks to introduce a new module for Cortex XDR.” | official | 2026-07-06 |
| s11 | [Koi trust-surface probe 2026-07-06: footer badges, no trust./security. subdomain or /security page](https://www.koi.ai/) “Footer badges served as image files gdpr.svg, soc.svg, and ico.svg reading ISO 27001, SOC, and GDPR. No trust. or security. subdomain resolves and /security returns 404 (probe 2026-07-06).” | other | 2026-07-06 |
| s12 | [Koi blog: early customers](https://www.koi.ai/blog/koi-raises-48m-to-reinvent-endpoint-security-for-the-modern-software-stack) “It is this approach that our early customers, Fortune 50 organizations, BFIS, and the world's biggest tech and cybersecurity vendors, are excited about.” | official | 2026-07-06 |
| s13 | [FinSMEs: Koi raises $48M (endpoint scale)](https://www.finsmes.com/2025/09/koi-raises-48m-in-seed-and-series-a-funding.html) “The company has rapidly scaled to protect more than 500,000 endpoints worldwide. Its platform is already securing some of the world's largest enterprises, from Fortune 50 companies to leading financial enterprises and major technology companies.” | press | 2026-07-06 |

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