Evoke Security, a cybersecurity startup focused on securing the agentic workforce, has raised $4 million in pre-seed funding led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, with participation from Red Cell Partners. The company said the capital will support its mission to provide security teams with visibility and control over AI agents operating across enterprise environments.
The funding announcement follows Evoke Security’s selection into the 2026 CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA Accelerator Program, as well as its membership in the NVIDIA Inception Program. The company positions itself as a security platform designed specifically for AI agents that are already accessing sensitive enterprise systems and data.
As enterprises rapidly deploy AI agents, employees are increasingly granting them access to email, customer data, source code, and production systems. According to the company, a single agent can interact with dozens of critical systems while its activity remains unmonitored by traditional security tools. If compromised, an agent could exfiltrate data, modify code, or move laterally across systems without triggering existing security alerts.
Evoke’s platform is designed to deploy in minutes without disrupting employee workflows. The company offers three core capabilities tailored to the agentic workforce.
The first is inventory and governance, which automatically discovers and governs every agent, skill, MCP, tool, and data source within an environment to eliminate Shadow AI. The second is AI security posture management and threat modeling, which maps attack paths, surfaces malicious skills and MCP tools, and identifies over-permissioned agents before they can be exploited. The third is detection, prevention, and response, providing full visibility into every agent action and enabling custom policies that block risky behaviors, such as data exfiltration, in real time.
In its FAQ, the company said it addresses the gap created by autonomous agents that take actions, call tools, and move across systems at machine speed, capabilities that traditional security tools were not built to manage. The platform covers local agents through a lightweight endpoint sensor, SaaS agents through a browser extension, and production agents through an SDK and proxy.
Evoke Security said its long-term vision is that AI agents will become the next operating system for businesses, with every employee supported by a team of autonomous agents. As these agents gain more autonomy, the company argues, governance and monitoring become essential to managing the associated risks.
Crosspoint Capital Partners focuses on investments in cybersecurity, privacy, infrastructure, and AI software markets, while Red Cell Partners operates as a venture studio building technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security.
KEY QUOTES
“Your workforce is doubling, and half of it isn’t human. Existing security tools weren’t built for a world where autonomous agents have the keys to the kingdom. AI agents are the biggest enterprise security shift in a generation, and security teams are completely in the dark. Evoke turns the lights on.”
Jason Rebholz, Co-Founder And CEO Of Evoke Security And Former CISO At Corvus Insurance
“We spend a lot of time with CISOs, and the number one question we hear right now is: how do I secure AI agents I can’t even see? Evoke is the answer. The team brings hands-on security practitioner experience that gives them a real understanding of how enterprises need to defend against this new class of risk.”
Andre Fuetsch, Managing Director At Crosspoint Capital
“The rise of agents has created an entirely new attack surface that existing security tools were never designed to address. Evoke’s founding team has spent their careers on the front lines: investigating nation-state breaches at Mandiant, building security engineering systems, and leading enterprise security teams. They understand how attackers operate and how enterprises need to defend against them.”
George Barnes, President Of The Cyber Practice At Red Cell Partners And Former Deputy Director Of The NSA
