Pluto Security raises $42 million to expand enterprise AI security platform

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Pluto Security raised $42 million in funding, including an $8.5 million seed round and $34 million Series A, and surpassed $2 million in annual recurring revenue since April launch.
Pluto reports over 30 enterprise customers, including Oscar Health, Workato, Sixt, and AlphaSense, with 70% of sales pipeline from inbound interest via its Plutonium free risk-check platform.
Pluto's AI security platform detected exposed or malicious enterprise AI activity and integrates with endpoint security software to monitor and intervene in real time without blocking AI adoption.

Funding round and early commercial traction

As first reported by TechCrunch, Pluto Security has emerged from stealth with $42 million in funding, made up of an $8.5 million seed round led by TLV Partners and a $34 million Series A led by Jump Capital. Skinos, Ansa Capital, the founders of Armis and other angel investors also participate in the financing. The company says it begins selling in April and has already surpasses $2 million in annual recurring revenue. Pluto says it has more than 30 enterprise customers, including Oscar Health, Workato, Sixt and AlphaSense. Chief executive and co-founder Shahar Bahat says newly launched AI tools can appear inside a company environment within two hours of release. She tells TechCrunch that around 60% of the risks Pluto detects across its customer base come from tools built by non-developers, with finance teams ranking first, followed by marketing and legal departments.

AI risk exposure widens across enterprises

Pluto focuses on helping companies track how employees use AI tools, what components those tools rely on, and how agents behave in real time. The platform monitors skills, extensions, MCP servers, apps and agents, and the company says it can identify risky components, flag dangerous activity and enforce policies without blocking AI adoption. According to Bahat, Pluto has found exposed and potentially malicious activity during proof-of-concept deployments, including a finance-built application at a Fortune 500 company that handled customer information and churn data while remaining exposed to the internet. She says some assessments uncover live attacks involving extension packages or skills. The startup says its system connects to endpoint security and device management software, gathers data such as prompts, commands, running processes and permissions, and uses lightweight models on endpoints to assess an agent's actions. Bahat says the platform can also intervene during a session by stopping an action or inserting instructions that require an agent to seek confirmation before escalating permissions. Pluto also uses a community-led route to customer acquisition through Plutonium, a free platform launched in April for checking risks tied to public AI skills, connectors and add-ons. The company says thousands of security professionals use the service, and Bahat says 70% of Pluto's sales pipeline now comes from inbound interest. The company says it plans to use the new capital to develop its product, expand security research and grow its presence in the U.S. Pluto has 40 employees across the U.S. and Israel.

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