Straiker: Unlocking AI’s Future
Ankur Shah, Co-founder & CEO and Sreenath Kurupati, Co-founder & CTO
Straiker is building just that.
“Our focus is to architect security, safety, and trust into agentic AI applications from the ground up and unlock the future safely,” says Ankur Shah, co-founder and CEO. “It means enabling AI innovators to move forward with confidence, knowing that every autonomous action, every emergent behavior, and every decision is protected in real time.”
Where Traditional Security Ends
Straiker’s mission is to secure AI with AI. Companies can embrace the most transformative technology shift of our time while protecting them from the fast-emerging security and safety risks that come with it. Trained on enterprise data, AI-powered and agentic apps are prone to leaking data and through simple prompt-based exploits but they also introduce new exploit surfaces driven by natural languages through prompts, emergent behavior, tool misalignment and autonomous chaos.
Invisible to legacy scanners, firewalls, and SIEMs, these risks — called language-augmented vulnerabilities in applications (LAVA) — represent the shift from code-level exploits to intent-driven manipulations.
To address them, Staiker provides a dual-layer, closed-loop protection system: Ascend AI and Defend AI.
Ascend AI relentlessly and autonomously tests agentic AI applications, simulating real-world tested attack scenarios to uncover vulnerabilities before they’re exploited. It continuously tests systems through AI-driven red teaming that mimics sophisticated, adaptive threats. Defend AI then steps in at runtime, applying intelligent, real- time guardrails to block unsafe behaviors like hallucinated tool use or policy violations within milliseconds.
“You can’t rely solely on rules when the threats themselves are evolving in real time. You need reasoning and real-time context,” says Sreenath Kurupati, co-founder and CTO.
A New Security Paradigm
Straiker’s impact is already clear across industries. One enterprise sales team, for example, built a multi-agent AI application to generate sales documents and automate CRM updates. Without safeguards, the agents had unchecked tool access, raising concerns about hallucinations and prompt manipulation.
To address them, Staiker provides a dual-layer, closed-loop protection system: Ascend AI and Defend AI.
Ascend AI relentlessly and autonomously tests agentic AI applications, simulating real-world tested attack scenarios to uncover vulnerabilities before they’re exploited. It continuously tests systems through AI-driven red teaming that mimics sophisticated, adaptive threats. Defend AI then steps in at runtime, applying intelligent, real- time guardrails to block unsafe behaviors like hallucinated tool use or policy violations within milliseconds.
These out-of-band solutions require no changes to customer agents or product development, enabling fast, safe progress through a closed-loop model. Instead of static controls, Straiker uses a collection of fine-tuned security LLMs called the Medley of Experts to detect and stop threats in real-time. This is critical in a future where every interaction could be a potential exploit vector, and where the ability to act immediately is the difference between containment and compromise.Our focus is to architect security, safety, and trust into agentic AI applications from the ground up and unlock the future safely
“You can’t rely solely on rules when the threats themselves are evolving in real time. You need reasoning and real-time context,” says Sreenath Kurupati, co-founder and CTO.
A New Security Paradigm
Straiker’s impact is already clear across industries. One enterprise sales team, for example, built a multi-agent AI application to generate sales documents and automate CRM updates. Without safeguards, the agents had unchecked tool access, raising concerns about hallucinations and prompt manipulation.
Straiker lets them enforce runtime rules and enables them to enforce runtime rules such as “never email external contacts without approval,” while blocking indirect injections and misaligned tool use—creating a safer system without limiting autonomy.
Similarly, a fintech firm offering AI-based banking and stock tracking faced the challenge of protecting sensitive financial data in every user interaction. With Straiker integrated, they monitored data access, prevented PII leaks, and visualized tool call chains to meet strict audits—enabling innovation while adhering to regulatory compliance requirements.
At the heart of Straiker’s vision is the recognition that the future will be shaped by autonomous AI Agents. But for these systems to fulfill their promise, they must be built on a secure foundation. Straiker’s architecture is designed to meet that future with native intelligence that understands, adapts, and evolves. From sub-second threat responses to no-latency enforcement, the company enables AI developers and enterprises to keep building boldly, knowing their creations are shielded from the most dynamic and invisible threats.
Ultimately, the company’s role is not limited to protecting Agentic AI; rather, it is about protecting the future that those agents are building. By designing agentic AI security for a world in motion, Straiker gives AI builders and natives confidence to push forward, knowing they’re covered at runtime across every model, toolchain and autonomous decision.
Similarly, a fintech firm offering AI-based banking and stock tracking faced the challenge of protecting sensitive financial data in every user interaction. With Straiker integrated, they monitored data access, prevented PII leaks, and visualized tool call chains to meet strict audits—enabling innovation while adhering to regulatory compliance requirements.
At the heart of Straiker’s vision is the recognition that the future will be shaped by autonomous AI Agents. But for these systems to fulfill their promise, they must be built on a secure foundation. Straiker’s architecture is designed to meet that future with native intelligence that understands, adapts, and evolves. From sub-second threat responses to no-latency enforcement, the company enables AI developers and enterprises to keep building boldly, knowing their creations are shielded from the most dynamic and invisible threats.
Ultimately, the company’s role is not limited to protecting Agentic AI; rather, it is about protecting the future that those agents are building. By designing agentic AI security for a world in motion, Straiker gives AI builders and natives confidence to push forward, knowing they’re covered at runtime across every model, toolchain and autonomous decision.
