Pluto Security exits stealth with $42M to secure the enterprise AI workspace
What's the deal? Israeli cybersecurity startup Pluto SecurityDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has emerged from stealth with $42 million in total funding and a product that secures the AI tools and applications employees build at work. The company says it serves more than 40 enterprise customers, including Oscar HealthDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Workato, Sixt, and AlphaSense, alongside Fortune 500 organisations.
The money: Pluto's latest round is roughly $34 million, led by Jump CapitalDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. TLV Partners led the earlier seed round, with participation from additional investors. The capital will fund product development, research, and US expansion.
What's the endgame? Pluto focuses on the "AI workspace" — the environment created when employees use AI tools to build applications, agents, automations, and workflows. Its platform combines endpoint visibility, contextual risk assessment, and real-time control across those activities and their supply chains.
Why now? Tools such as Claude CodeDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, CodexDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Base44Dealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → let workers build software without engineering teams, pulling in skills, extensions, packages, and models as dependencies. Pluto says employees across its customers use hundreds of supply chain components while building thousands of applications.
Chief executive officer and co-founder Shahar Bahat argues traditional security cannot keep pace. "Security has traditionally been built around stopping things, but that model breaks down when the business is moving faster than security can evaluate every new tool," he said.
Instead of defaulting to blocking, Pluto aims to understand what users are trying to do and apply controls only where needed — stopping malicious skills or restricting access to sensitive data without halting legitimate work.
By the numbers: Though it only began selling in April, Pluto says it has reached multi-million-dollar annual recurring revenue and secured more than 1 million endpoints globally.
Part of its pitch is distribution. Pluto runs a community-driven, inbound go-to-market approach built around its Plutonium AI supply chain security hub, powered by a proprietary RisksDB that thousands of security professionals use and contribute to.
That resource drew investor interest. "Pluto has built a fundamentally different GTM engine for cybersecurity," said Saaya Pal, partner at Jump Capital, citing Plutonium as the clearest example.
The signal: As AI tools hand ordinary employees capabilities once reserved for engineers, the enterprise endpoint becomes harder to govern — and a new security market is forming around it. Pluto's raise is an early bet that controlling AI-driven work, rather than blocking it, is where that market is heading.
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