Kindo raises $30m to give security teams control of AI agents

Kindo raises $30m to give security teams control of AI agents

12 November 2026: Kindo has raised $30 million co-led by Crosspoint Capital and Forgepoint Capital, bringing its total funding to $57.6 million, to sell software that lets an organisation decide centrally what its AI agents may do. The Los Angeles company aims the product at security and IT teams that already run agents for operations work and want to see and stop their actions.

Not yet independently verified. We found this release only on PR Newswire, not on Kindo's own site, and the round's stage is not stated. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

Central control over what agents do

Kindo's AI Control Center is where agents are built, governed and audited, and its Deep Hat models are tuned for security work such as threat hunting. The company's argument is that agents are arriving faster than the controls around them.

"What's missing is the tooling that lets an organization centrally control how those agents are built," said Ron Williams, founder and chief executive. The release names Aireon as a customer whose security chief uses Kindo for threat hunting and security operations work, and lists financial services, professional services, healthcare and aviation and transport as its main sectors.

Two security investors at the front

Crosspoint Capital and Forgepoint Capital both invest mainly in cybersecurity, which says something about how Kindo is positioning itself. New investors TFX Capital and CircleRock Capital joined, along with existing backers Drive Capital, Riot Ventures, RRE Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Marlinspike Partners, New Era Ventures and Sunset Venture.

"Kindo differentiates itself by giving the teams who need deep control the ability to see and take action," said Andre Fuetsch, managing director at Crosspoint Capital.

What the money is for

Kindo says it will expand its go-to-market teams and speed up development of the AI Control Center, the Deep Hat models and add-ons for them. The headline of its release also pitches the product on reducing costs. The release does not give revenue, customer counts or the round's stage.

Agent governance among the tools we list

Our SIEM software category lists 15 products and data governance software eight. Agent governance sits between the two, and buyers comparing Kindo with their existing security operations tools should ask how its audit trail feeds the SIEM they already run.

Sources

• Kindo (via PR Newswire): Kindo Secures $57.6 Million to Expand Enterprise Control Over AI Agent Actions and Reduce Costs, 12 November 2026