Air Security Emerges Out of Stealth to Protect AI Agents

Air, the context firewall for AI agents, founded by Yair Saban and Niv Hoffman, has announced that it is coming out of stealth.

AI With Seatbelts.

AI agents are becoming a fundamental part of enterprise knowledge work, with coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex seeing rapid adoption. Yet enterprises remain cautious about deploying them without stronger controls.

Organizations face risks from employees using AI through personal accounts, untrusted agent harnesses, unapproved open-weight models, and an expanding ecosystem of tools and add-ons.

AIR is building around a single mission: protecting AI agents and helping enterprises adopt them securely without limiting their potential.

The Team.

Over the past year, AIR has assembled a high-density team spanning elite engineering, research, infrastructure, solutions, product, and brand. The company has also built partnerships with cloud providers, AI labs, and leading cybersecurity organizations.

Ryan Kinsley, former CISO at Costco and Walt Disney and a two-time Fortune 50 CISO, recently joined the company, bringing deep enterprise security expertise.

AIR has also built a strong customer base, refined its mission through customer feedback, and established backing from investors supporting the company’s next phase.

With the team, product, customers, partnerships, and brand now in place, AIR is emerging from stealth with the foundation to compete in the rapidly growing market for enterprise AI security.

The Vision.

AIR protects the context of AI agents by filtering untrusted inputs before they reach the agent. The approach functions as a firewall for agent context, screening threats from unvetted add-ons, untrusted websites, and dynamic enterprise data.

The core thesis is that an agent is only as safe as its context. While some protections operate at runtime, AIR focuses on pre-runtime protection, identifying and filtering threats before they enter the agent’s context.

The result is a security layer for AI agents across endpoints, cloud environments, and SaaS.

Well Positioned for the Big Wave.

AIR is backed by Sequoia, Greenoaks, Swish, Netz, and TTP, alongside early angel investors, customers, and a growing team.

The AI security market currently generates less than $100 million in combined annual revenue, but could exceed $1 billion by the end of 2027. With the market still in its early stages, AIR is entering the next phase of growth with strong investor backing, customer traction, and a focused position in the emerging AI security landscape.

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