Pluto Security just closed a $42 million funding round as it pitches a new class of security tools that monitor and control how employees use AI inside business networks.
Pluto Security just raised $42 million to fund a new wave of security tools designed for AI inside the enterprise. The company monitors AI agents and prompts used by employees, not just the apps themselves, and can intervene in real time if actions go beyond what’s allowed.
Why it matters: as employees bring AI tools into work, traditional security programs miss many risks. Pluto says most of its risk detections come from non-developer teams like finance and marketing.
What happens next: Pluto plans to expand its product, grow its U.S. presence, and push its risk-scanning platform to more customers. Expect more AI-related security tools to surface in the coming months.
Pluto Security has emerged from stealth with a $42 million funding run, aimed at a growing worry in many offices: employees and contractors bringing AI tools into work in unpredictable ways. The company says its platform watches not just apps and data, but the actual AI agents and prompts people use, and it can intervene if an action exceeds what’s allowed. In practice, that means security teams would see more context about what AI tools are doing inside a company network and can stop or redirect actions in real time.
Founder and CEO Shahar Bahat frames the problem as a shift from guarding user behavior to watching agent behavior. “We’re moving from user behavior to agent behavior,” she said, describing a security model that focuses on the AI tools employees enable, the extensions they rely on, and the data flows those tools create. Pluto’s approach plugs into endpoint security and device-management systems and can even deploy its own sensors on devices to monitor prompts, commands, processes, and user history.
The core pitch is simple: traditional security tools can miss the new kinds of risks generated by AI tooling in the hands of non-developers. Bahat says the biggest risk often isn’t a lone developer, but finance, marketing, and legal teams adopting vibe-coded or custom AI add-ons that expose sensitive customer data or internal systems to the internet. Pluto’s platform seeks to provide visibility and control without slowing people down at work.
Pluto isn’t starting from zero. It says it has already crossed $2 million in annual recurring revenue and counts Oscar Health, Workato, Sixt and AlphaSense among its customers. The company started selling in April and says roughly 60% of its risk findings come from tools used by non-developers, with developers ranking lower in priority. The new funding round includes an $8.5 million seed and a $34 million Series A, led by Jump Capital and other investors, and plans to expand the product, grow security research, and push further into the U.S. market.
For businesses, the takeaway is timing matters. As more enterprises ship AI-powered workflows and assistants, the risk surface grows not just at the network edge but inside tools people actively use. Pluto’s answer is to give security teams real-time insight into what AI agents are doing and a way to intervene without halting work entirely.
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