Opsin has raised $21 million in funding to expand its AI governance and security platform, which is designed to help enterprises detect, understand, and contain potentially dangerous behavior from autonomous AI agents. SYN Ventures and Race Capital led the financing. Opsin plans to use the capital to expand its platform as enterprises increasingly deploy AI agents that can independently access data, use software tools, and take action across business systems.
Opsin focuses on goal-oriented AI agents that can autonomously perform multiple actions to complete assigned objectives rather than simply respond to individual prompts. As organizations grant these agents broader access and permissions, Opsin is seeking to address risks including unauthorized actions, sensitive data exposure, circumvention of security controls, and disruptions to critical systems.
In an analysis of AI agent activity across its enterprise customers, Opsin found that 93% of misaligned tools connected to agents had full, unrestricted access to the systems they interacted with. Only one in 200 required human approval before taking action, highlighting the increasing autonomy granted to enterprise AI systems.
Opsin gives security teams centralized visibility and control over agents employees create across platforms, including Microsoft Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini, and other approved enterprise AI products. The platform connects information about an agent’s purpose, identity, permissions, data access, tools, and activity to establish context around what the agent is supposed to do and how it actually behaves.
This contextual approach helps security teams identify excessive access, discover AI agents operating across their organizations, detect behavior outside an agent’s intended purpose, prioritize significant risks, and enforce security controls before problematic activity becomes a larger incident.
CEO James Pham, cybersecurity veteran Oz Wasserman, and engineering leader Jeremy Mailen founded Opsin. Pham and Wasserman previously worked together at Abnormal Security before joining Mailen to create Opsin to address emerging security challenges tied to increasingly autonomous AI systems.
The company already serves nearly 20 enterprise customers across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and other regulated industries. Customers include Culligan, Barry-Wehmiller, Wellstar Health System, and UiPath. With the new funding, Opsin plans to expand its platform as AI agents become more deeply integrated into enterprise applications, processes, data, and workflows.
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“We’ve already seen what can happen when AI agents go off course, and the stakes will only get higher as they become a bigger part of how enterprises operate. We’re moving toward a world where employees supervise teams of agents that work across an enterprise’s data, knowledge, and systems, with increasing authority to act on their behalf. In that environment, knowing what an agent has permission to access isn’t enough. Security needs to understand what the agent is trying to do, who is behind it, what data it is using, and how its actions connect to the broader workflow. That’s the shift Opsin is building for.”
James Pham, Co-Founder And CEO Of Opsin Security
“AI agents are gaining access and authority to act on critical systems, creating a security problem enterprises haven’t faced before. James and Oz bring firsthand experience from Abnormal Security, and together with Jeremy have assembled a team with deep expertise in detecting complex threats. Opsin connects what an agent is supposed to do with what it actually does helping enterprises spot dangerous behavior and address it. We backed this team because they have the security experience and technical depth to solve a problem becoming more urgent with every agent deployed.”
Alfred Chuang, General Partner At Race Capital
“Enterprises are racing to adopt AI agents but there is still a fundamental trust gap around giving them access to sensitive data. Opsin provides enterprises the confidence to embrace AI agents without opening the door to uncontained risks.”
Glenn Chisholm, Partner At SYN Ventures
