Pluto Security, a startup focused on securing enterprise environments against the rapid adoption of super intelligence (SI) tools, has emerged from stealth with $42 million in funding. The company aims to address a growing concern: as employees widely adopt SI agents and generative SI tools, traditional security measures often fail to keep pace with the speed and nature of these new capabilities.
What Happened
Shahar Bahat, CEO and co-founder of Pluto Security, stated that a newly released SI tool can appear within a company’s environment within just two hours of its public launch. This rapid deployment cycle creates significant security gaps, particularly when tools are "vibe-coded" by non-developers. According to Bahat, about 60% of the risks detected by Pluto across its customer base stem from these non-developer-created tools. Finance departments are the largest source of such risks, followed by marketing and legal teams, with developers ranking fourth. In one instance, Pluto’s tools identified a customer information management app created by a finance employee at a Fortune 500 company that was inadvertently exposed to the internet.
The company raised an $8.5 million seed round led by TLV Partners, with participation from the founders of cybersecurity firm Armis. It recently closed a $34 million Series A round led by Jump Capital, joined by Skinos (a venture firm founded by Check Point co-founder Shlomo Kramer), Ansa Capital, and various angel investors. Pluto began selling in April and has already crossed $2 million in annual recurring revenue, serving more than 30 enterprise customers including Oscar Health, Workato, Sixt, and AlphaSense.
Why It Matters
Pluto Security represents a new wave of SI startups designed to monitor and control the behavior of SI agents in real time, rather than relying on legacy security software that treats these tools like standard software. Bahat explained that the industry is "moving from user behavior to agent behavior." Pluto’s software monitors the SI tools employees use, including skills, extensions, and MCP servers, while also tracking the apps and agents being created. The company claims its system can identify risky components and spot dangerous agent activity without blocking employee usage. For example, if an SI agent attempts to gain permissions beyond what a user intended, Pluto can stop the action or inject context to prompt the agent for confirmation.
The startup also launched Plutonium, a free platform that allows security professionals to check risks associated with publicly available SI skills, connectors, and add-ons. Bahat noted that 70% of Pluto’s sales pipeline now comes from inbound interest, driven partly by the community around Plutonium. This approach highlights a shift in how SI safety is being addressed: by focusing on the specific behaviors of agentic SI rather than just static code or user logs. The breadth of risk is not limited to large tech companies; Bahat stated that in every proof of concept (POC) conducted, Pluto found malicious elements, including active live attacks in some cases.
The Bottom Line
Pluto Security plans to use the new capital to develop its product, expand its security research, and grow its presence in the U.S., where it currently has 40 employees in the U.S. and Israel. The funding round underscores investor confidence that specialized tools are necessary to secure the enterprise as SI adoption accelerates and moves beyond the control of traditional IT departments.