Operant AI provides a runtime application protection platform that actively shields every layer of live applications from infrastructure to APIs, aiming to secure the “cloud within the cloud.” Its multidimensional approach extends protection across AppSec, API, and AI protection gaps to cover APIs, services, and identities beyond firewalls. The platform uses adaptive internal firewalls that the company says block more than 80% of the most critical and common runtime attacks, including data exfiltration, unauthorized access, and AI supply‑chain attacks. Operant AI touts single-step deployment that within minutes gives security and platform teams real-time visibility and cloud-native protection across application stacks. The company plans to use the new funds to accelerate team and product expansion. Led by CEO Vrajesh Bhavsar and CTO Dr. Priyanka Tembey, Operant emphasizes frictionless security for dev, sec, and ops so teams can deploy products and AI faster without security slowing them down. Financially, the company has raised a total of $13.5M following the latest round. Operant offers a runtime application protection platform that learns application, service-to-service and API interactions at runtime and enforces security policies across Kubernetes and cloud layers. The product installs in dev, staging and production Kubernetes environments to generate live API catalogs and service interaction maps and to feed learnings back into development. Operant emphasizes protecting containers, microservices, APIs and data flows without instrumentation, aiming to provide guard rails from development through deployment. The company launched in 2020 and began building the product in 2021, working with design partners before emerging publicly. Operant currently has six employees and says it may double headcount this year as it scales. Financially, the startup announced a $3 million seed and previously raised a $500,000 pre-seed, bringing total funding to $3.5 million.

Total raised

$13M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Sep 2024