Asymptote Labs raises $5.5 million for AI agent security
Original title: Asymptote Labs Lands $5.5 Million Seed for AI Agent Runtime Security
Tower Research Ventures led the seed round; open-source Beacon normalizes telemetry from more than 20 agent harnesses.
Asymptote Labs raised $5.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round to build runtime control and visibility for enterprise AI agents. Tower Research Ventures led, with Lytical Ventures, 1984 Ventures, and South Park Commons participating. Founders Justin D’Souza and Shukan Shah, formerly at Doppel, say the money will fund product development, engineering, and go-to-market work. Their open-source Beacon layer standardizes activity from more than 20 harnesses, including Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code, into an OpenTelemetry-based model, with a commercial platform enforcing prompt and tool-execution guardrails.
- The round was oversubscribed and led by Tower Research Ventures.
- Beacon covers more than 20 agent harnesses, including Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code.
- The commercial layer blocks risky prompt and tool actions in real time.
- Founders previously built defenses at Doppel.
- Vendors
- Asymptote Labs
- Products
- Beacon
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