2026-10-01
$514M of new funding is targeting AI agents and automation at work
6 funded companies building into AI agents and automation at work. The work in scope is what the Senior Leader owns today.
The funding
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Agentic Control Plane Maker Island Raises $400M Series F at $6.4B Valuation →See every AI agent in your environment, who owns it, what it can access, and where the risk is. Reco secures agentic AI from day one across 280+ apps.
Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market →doxx.net is an Agentic Defined Network (ADN). A private, parallel internet where you and your agents browse, mesh, call, message, and transfer files. P2P Comms connects devices directly with end-to-end encryption. Nothing to log. Nothing to know.
doxx.net Raises $38 Million, Led by Andreessen Horowitz, to Launch Agentic Defined Networking →Agentic AI-first SOC processes that reduce your risk, not your alert volume. Built sovereign by design — your data stays where it needs to.
Sovera Security secures €535K from EIFO to build sovereign AI cybersecurity →RRSI Raises AI Agent Scores While Keeping Models Fixed
RRSI Raises AI Agent Scores While Keeping Models Fixed →What it means
Capital arriving in a function is a reliable leading indicator. It does not mean the incumbents are wrong, and it does not mean these companies will succeed. It means that within the next few quarters the people who run this work will be asked what their function is doing about it, and the honest answer has to start with where that function actually stands.
So we built the assessment for it. Not a purchase decision, a structured set of questions to take to your own team.