Ent Emerges from Stealth to Bring Prevention Back to Cybersecurity
$100 million seed round backs the industry’s first intent-aware Workspace Security platform, built on real-time intervention and designed to stop AI-era threats before they become incidents.
Ent, intent-aware Workspace Security company, today emerged from stealth with $100 million in seed financing. The company is pioneering a new approach to cybersecurity built around the simple belief that AI compresses the time between compromise and impact; prevention must once again become the primary objective of security. Ent’s platform helps organizations understand and intervene in risky actions by humans and AI agents before they become incidents.
Ent is already deployed with Global 2000 customers across hospitality, financial services, and defense. Customers use Ent to detect insider risk, govern AI usage, prevent data loss, stop last-mile threats, and investigate incidents with the full behavioral context of what happened, why it happened, and what should happen next.
"Security has been stuck in a reactive loop for over a decade, but AI-powered attacks require new thinking," said Elias Manousos, CEO and co-founder of Ent. "AI is changing both how people work and how quickly attackers can act. What once took days now happens in seconds. By the time traditional security systems detect a problem, it is too late. We believe the future of security lies in understanding intent in real time across people and AI agents and stopping risk before it becomes an incident.”
