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Asymptote Labs Raises $5.5M for AI Agent Security Platform

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Asymptote Labs raised a $5.5 million seed round led by Tower Research Ventures, with Lytical Ventures, 1984 Ventures and South Park Commons also participating. Its open-source Beacon tool records prompts, commands and file edits performed by more than 20 coding agents, while a paid platform can block risky actions such as data leaks, according to the company. The valuation was not disclosed, and the funds will support engineering, hiring and sales.

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Beacon centralizes activity records from multiple coding agents, while Asymptote’s paid offering adds controls intended to prevent risky agent actions, directly addressing enterprise monitoring and security needs.

Asymptote Labs co-founders Shukan Shah, left, and Justin D’Souza, right, smiling with arms crossed in front of a hand-drawn mural.
Asymptote Labs co-founders Shukan Shah (left) and Justin D’Souza. Credit: Asymptote Labs
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Asymptote Labs co-founders Shukan Shah (left) and Justin D’Souza. Credit: Asymptote Labs

New York startup Asymptote Labs has raised a $5.5M seed round led by Tower Research Ventures. It makes Beacon, a free open-source tool that records what AI agents do, and sells a paid platform that can block risky agent actions. The money will go on engineering, hiring and sales.

Asymptote Labs, a New York startup that monitors what AI agents do inside companies, has raised $5.5M in seed funding, it said on Tuesday. Tower Research Ventures, the venture arm of trading firm Tower Research Capital, led the round.

#Asymptote Labs#Beacon#Tower Research Ventures#Lytical Ventures#1984 Ventures#South Park Commons#Claude Code#Codex#Cursor

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