Crosspoint Capital Partners leads investment to give security teams visibility and control over AI agents operating across the enterprise
Evoke Security, a cybersecurity startup securing the agentic workforce, announced $4 million in pre-seed funding led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, LP (Crosspoint Capital) with participation from Red Cell Partners. This follows Evoke Security’s selection into the 2026 CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA Accelerator Program and its membership in the NVIDIA Inception Program. Evoke is the security platform for AI agents that are already accessing enterprises’ most sensitive data and systems.
Enterprises are deploying AI agents at unprecedented speed. Employees are granting them access to email, customer data, source code, and production systems. A single agent can touch dozens of critical systems while its activity goes unmonitored. One compromised agent can exfiltrate customer data, modify source code, or pivot across systems, all without triggering a single alert from your existing security stack.
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“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,” said Jason Rebholz, co-founder and CEO of Evoke Security and former CISO at Corvus Insurance. “AI agents are the biggest enterprise security shift in a generation, and security teams are completely in the dark. Evoke turns the lights on.”
Evoke’s platform deploys in minutes with no disruption to employee workflows and delivers three core capabilities purpose-built for the agentic workforce:
- Inventory & Governance: Auto-discovers and governs every agent, Skill, MCP, tool, and data source in the environment, eliminating Shadow AI.
- AI Security Posture Management & Threat Modeling: Map attack paths, surface malicious skills/MCP tools, and identify over-permissioned agents before attackers do.
- Detection, Prevention, & Response: Provides full visibility into every agent action, with custom policies that block risky behaviors, like data exfiltration, in real time. The platform deploys in minutes with no disruption to employee workflows.
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“Evoke is tackling one of the most urgent emerging problems in cybersecurity,” said Andre Fuetsch, Managing Director, Crosspoint Capital. “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.”
“The rise of agents has created an entirely new attack surface that existing security tools were never designed to address,” said George Barnes, President, Cyber Practice at Red Cell Partners and former deputy director of the NSA. “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.”