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Aug 4, 2026

Obsidian Security raises $85M Series D at $1.1B valuation amid surge in AI agent security demand

Obsidian Security has raised $85 million in Series D funding led by Crescent Cove Advisors, valuing the AI security startup at $1.1 billion. The company focuses on securing AI agents and non-human identities accessing enterprise data across third-party applications.

Aug 4, 2026·9 sources
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  • ▪Obsidian Security cited recent incidents where an AI agent triggered a 13-hour cloud outage, another deleted decades of personal files, and a third deleted a production database and backups.
  • ▪Obsidian Security added features providing enterprise-wide inventories of Model Context Protocol servers and large language models to track active infrastructure and model substitutions.
  • ▪Following the Series D investment, Obsidian Security achieved a post-money valuation of approximately $1.1 billion.

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