Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks

Cymphony, a New York– and Tel Aviv–based startup backed by Sequoia, raised $30M to help enterprises govern AI agents that access corporate systems and data; the article highlights real-world exposures (e.g., ~85,000 files reachable by AI tools and an unsanctioned Claude instance scanning sensitive files), outlines Cymphony’s “workforce graph” approach to unify identity, data, and activity signals, and places the company in the broader market of vendors addressing agent-related security risks.