The Venture Codex

Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

Ent operates an intent-aware Workspace Security platform that observes behavior across browsers, applications, workflows, data movement, and local runtimes to evaluate human and AI agent intent in real time. The platform runs as a lightweight agent hosted in the customer’s cloud, applies customer-defined policy, and performs configurable, just-in-time interventions to stop risky actions before they become incidents. Ent is generally available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and via a browser extension and is deployed with Global 2000 customers across hospitality, financial services, and defense. The company was founded by Elias Manousos and Brandon Dixon, founders of RiskIQ and contributors to Microsoft Security Copilot, and includes advisors with senior security and intelligence backgrounds. Ent plans to use new funding to hire across engineering and go-to-market teams and to accelerate product roadmap items including AI governance, threat prevention, security integrations, and multimodal endpoint intelligence. The company positions its technology as a preventive layer at the workspace to address AI-era, fast-moving attacks by bringing AI reasoning directly to endpoints.

Participated · Series A · May 2026

Geordie builds a security and governance platform that helps enterprises discover, understand, secure and govern AI agents across their systems. The platform provides real-time visibility into which agents exist, what they can access, how they behave, and the risks they create. Geordie is led by CEO Henry Comfort and is headquartered in London. The company has reported strong commercial momentum, including winning the 2026 RSAC Innovation Sandbox and achieving 1,300% ARR growth five months into 2026. Geordie has raised $36.5M to date, including a $30M Series A recently led by Balderton Capital, and plans to use the new capital to enhance product capabilities and expand engineering and go-to-market teams, with a focus on extending U.S. operations.

Led · Equity · Mar 2026

TENEX develops an AI-native managed detection and response (MDR) platform that uses AI agents to detect and escalate cyber threats to human analysts. The company emphasizes an architecture built from first principles for AI, claiming threat response times under a minute. TENEX has around 100 employees and previously said it aimed to reach 300 employees by the end of 2026. It operates offices in Sarasota, San Jose, Overland Park (Kansas) and Phoenix and is planning a global office in Europe. TENEX reported funding growth of 318% year-over-year and raised $27 million in a Series A in September 2025 prior to this round. Leadership changes following the raise include the appointment of Bashar Abouseido as president.

Led · Seed · Feb 2026

Evoke Security is building a security platform specifically designed for the emerging “agentic workforce,” in which AI agents operate alongside humans inside the enterprise. The product auto-discovers every agent, skill, tool, and data source, eliminating Shadow AI and establishing a live inventory and governance layer. It performs AI Security Posture Management and threat modeling, mapping attack paths and flagging over-permissioned or malicious agents before they are exploited. A third pillar delivers real-time detection, prevention, and response, blocking risky behaviors such as data exfiltration as they occur. Deployment options include a lightweight endpoint sensor for local agents, a browser extension for SaaS agents, and an SDK/proxy for production agents, allowing installation in minutes with no workflow disruption. The company envisions a future in which every employee is supported by multiple AI agents and intends to be the foundational security layer for that ecosystem. Evoke has been accepted into the 2026 CrowdStrike, AWS & NVIDIA Accelerator Program and is a member of the NVIDIA Inception Program. Its immediate financial footing is a $4 million pre-seed raise that will fund further product development and early go-to-market efforts.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

Seattle-based Clearly AI builds software that replaces manual spreadsheets, tickets and engineer interviews with an automated workflow that gathers technical context, evaluates risk and flags items needing human review. The platform is aimed at security, privacy and compliance teams that must sign off on new products, features, vendors and AI deployments. Less than two years after launch, the tool is already used by 17 enterprise customers, including Rivian, Ericsson, Okta, Webflow, Affirm and HID Global; Rivian, for instance, screens every new vehicle feature through Clearly AI for privacy and AI risk. The company was founded by married co-founders Emily Choi-Greene and Joe Choi-Greene, alumni of Amazon’s Alexa, device security and Kuiper initiatives, and it graduated from Y Combinator in 2024. Clearly AI was selected as one of ten finalists for the 2026 RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest, highlighting industry recognition of its approach. The startup employs 12 people and recently secured $8.4 million in seed funding to further develop its product and scale its customer base.