Helmet Security, an emerging cyber company focused on protecting communications between artificial intelligence systems, has raised new capital to boost its platform as enterprises accelerate their adoption of agentic AI.
The business has secured $9m in funding from SYN Ventures and WhiteRabbit, two well-known early-stage investors specialising in security innovation. The investment highlights growing interest in technologies that secure AI-to-AI connectivity, an area many analysts believe will underpin the next generation of enterprise systems.
Helmet Security was established with input from Fortune 500 chief information security officers to address a rapidly developing problem in enterprise technology. As agentic AI expands, businesses are deploying thousands of server connections through the Model Context Protocol, known as MCP.
These connections allow AI systems to communicate with software and data, but they are often invisible to traditional monitoring tools. Helmet aims to close this gap by continuously discovering, observing and enforcing policy controls on MCP servers and other agent communication pathways.
The company plans to use the new funds to extend its existing security capabilities, with a focus on protecting AI-to-AI interactions at scale. Its platform works by scanning networks to locate MCP servers, migrating them into a managed environment and applying structured rules to block non-compliant or suspicious links. According to Helmet, this aims to provide instant visibility for CISOs while allowing development teams to continue innovating without slowing down engineering speed.
Additional product information shows the platform is built to integrate with standard enterprise tools including EDR systems and API connections. Helmet says each time a new MCP communication path appears, its software detects it and offers CISOs the ability to enforce policy in real time. The founding leadership team includes CTO Kaushik Shanadi, a long-time security engineer, and CEO Fred Kneip, who has extensive experience in security and risk management.
WhiteRabbit Ventures founder Caleb Sima said, “AI-to-AI communication is the critical foundation for the next generation of tech. Helmet Security provides the safety layer to make this a reality for the enterprise.”
SYN Ventures managing partner and founder Jay Leek said, “Helmet Security is batting one thousand on early prospect conversions because the platform delivers the Wiz proposition of instant value and applies it to AI-to-AI communications.”
Helmet Security CEO Fred Kneip said, “Helmet helps CISOs understand what servers are already in their environment, what information they are sharing, and who is using them. It then allows for simple policy enforcement to reduce the attack surface.”
Helmet Security CTO Kaushik Shanadi said, “By covering the full MCP lifecycle today and preparing to secure the emerging A2A methods for tomorrow, we help developers maintain speed while giving CISOs real guardrails.”
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