Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market

TechCrunch Ram Iyer

29 Sept 2026 22:30 AEST Summary

Security Artificial intelligence Fundraising AI Agents AI Security

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At one of the startup’s Fortune 100 customers, he said, Reco’s platform found 21,000 agents the company didn’t know about.

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Some vendors vet the tools agents use.

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Niral Score 10 · calm mundaneloaded

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Jingoistic 4.7 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Sourcing 57 unattributednamed sources Mood 52.2 sorrowjoyful

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