Onyx Security Launches With $40 Million in Funding

The startup is building a control pane to help organizations oversee autonomous AI agents and rapidly adopt them.

On Thursday, Onyx Security announced its launch with $40 million in funding from Conviction and Cyberstarts to control and secure autonomous agents.

Founded by Israeli defense veterans Bar Kogan and Gil Elbaz, Onyx Security has built a secure AI control plane that allows organizations to manage AI agents and rapidly adopt them across their environments.

The solution was designed to continuously discover AI agents across cloud, endpoints, code, and SaaS deployments, to monitor them, and to approve or correct their actions, enforcing the enterprise’s security and governance policies.

Onyx uses supervisory agents and proprietary AI models to understand AI reasoning and react in real time, providing organizations with visibility, control, optimization capabilities, and means to measure AI agent adoption.

The startup’s supervisory AI, the Onyx Guardian Agent, continuously monitors assets ...