Enterprise AI Security Platform

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Straiker, founded in 2024 in Sunnyvale, California, is an AI security company specializing in real-time protection for AI applications and autonomous agents. Backed by a $21 million Series A from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the company has deployed industry-first attack and defense agents that secure enterprise agentic AI throughout its lifecycle. Straiker's platform provides continuous assessment and runtime protection for dynamic AI systems — particularly agentic workflows that introduce new attack surfaces and unpredictable behaviors. Drawing on proprietary models trained by its internal AI Security Research Team, Straiker delivers high-precision detection across prompt injection, data leakage, hallucination exploitation, and malicious tool invocation.

CORE FOCUS

Enterprise AI applications and agentic workflows create a fundamentally different attack surface than traditional software. Agents interact with external tools, access sensitive data, execute code, and make autonomous decisions — all without the deterministic boundaries that conventional security controls rely on. Straiker addresses this by blending automated red teaming with active runtime guardrails, enabling both proactive vulnerability discovery and defensive enforcement across AI applications. Its LAVA (Language-based Adversarial Vector Attack) detection capability identifies language-based injection attacks that weaponize the AI's own reasoning against it. The platform provides continuous security assessment that runs against production AI applications — not just during pre-deployment testing — keeping protection current as applications and threats evolve.

PRODUCTS & TOOLS

Ascend (Attack Agent) — Automated red teaming engine that continuously probes AI applications for exploitable vulnerabilities.

• Runs automated assessments against AI applications to identify prompt injection, data leakage, and evasion vulnerabilities
• Use-case-based testing tailored to the specific behaviors and risks of each AI application
• CI/CD integration enables security testing to run automatically at each deployment
• Light test mode for rapid validation without full assessment overhead

Defend (Defense Agent) — Runtime guardrail engine that enforces security policies against live AI application traffic.

• Blocks prompt injection, PII extraction, malware generation, and role-play evasion attempts in real time
• Detects LAVA injection attacks that use language exploits, HTML/JS injection, and outbound data exfiltration
• System prompt audit and grounding checks validate AI application integrity
• All blocked sessions flagged with full audit trails for security team review

Straiker Console — Centralized visibility and risk management dashboard across all protected AI applications.

• Per-application risk scores, grounding check results, and leakage finding summaries
• Evasion detection reports with session-level evidence for each flagged interaction
• System prompt audit capability to identify unauthorized modifications