Artificial Intelligence Onyx Security Launches With $40 Million in Funding The startup is building a control pane to help organizations oversee autonomous AI agents and rapidly adopt them. By Ionut Arghire | March 13, 2026 (5:25 AM ET) Flipboard Reddit Whatsapp Whatsapp Email On Thursday, Onyx Security announced its launch with $40 million in funding from Conviction and Cyberstarts to control and secure autonomous agents. Founded by Israeli defense veterans Bar Kogan and Gil Elbaz, Onyx Security has built a secure AI control plane that allows organizations to manage AI agents and rapidly adopt them across their environments. The solution was designed to continuously discover AI agents across cloud, endpoints, code, and SaaS deployments, to monitor them, and to approve or correct their actions, enforcing the enterprise’s security and governance policies. Onyx uses supervisory agents and proprietary AI models to understand AI reasoning and react in real time, providing organizations with visibility, control, optimization capabilities, and means to measure AI agent adoption. The startup’s supervisory AI, the Onyx Guardian Agent, continuously monitors assets to identify risks and address issues, enabling businesses to manage large numbers of agents at scale. Based in Tel Aviv and New York, Onyx has over 70 employees in Israel, the US, and Canada, and is already working with multiple large companies. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. The fresh investment will allow Onyx to expand its product and engineering teams, build new AI models, and scale its go-to-market efforts. “Maxim and Gil saw the need for an AI control plane before the market did. While most of the industry was still focused on data loss in chatbots, they predicted that the risk surface of agents was going to be critical. Onyx is the control plane all enterprises will need as they scale to thousands of agents,” said Conviction Partners founder Sarah Guo. Related: Scanner Raises $22 Million for AI-Powered Threat Hunting Related: Quantro Security Emerges From Stealth With $2.5 Million in Funding Related: Jazz Emerges From Stealth With $61M in Funding for AI-Powered DLP Related: Kai Emerges From Stealth With $125M in Funding for AI Platform Bridging IT and OT Security Written By Ionut Arghire Ionut Arghire is an international correspondent for SecurityWeek. 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