About Akto
Ankush Jain
Co-Founder & CTO
Ankita Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO
$231B
combined revenue
$1T
combined market cap
700K
total employees
Awards & Recognitions
Community Recognition
Awarded Best Cybersecurity Startup
Akto won Best Cybersecurity Startup at The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026. Recognized as the security control plane for AI agents, MCP ecosystems, and the LLMs they depend on.
Community Recognition
Awarded Best Agentic Exposure Management Platform
Named Best Agentic Exposure Management Platform at The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026, recognized for modeling the real exposure created by Agentic AI systems.
Community Recognition
Recognized in the OWASP AI Agent Security Solutions Landscape
Akto recognized in two categories - Monitor and Test & Evaluate categories of OWASP's LLM and Gen AI Security Landscape cheatsheet.
Community Recognition
Featured in SafenAI's AI Agent Security 50 Category Map
SafenAI and Sixty Degree Capital's AI Agent Security 50 Category Map, places Akto at the intersection of Discovery & SPM, Governance & Audit, and Runtime Security - 3 pillars of AI Security.
Analyst Recognition
Named Representative Vendor in Gartner's Guide on Security AI Agents
Akto is listed as a Representative Vendor in Gartner's 2025 Guide for Securing AI Agents, alongside the vendors defining how enterprises secure agentic AI systems.
4.8 out of 5
Our Investors & Advisors
Akshay Kothari
Co-Founder & COO, Notion
Renaud Deraison
Co-Founder & CTO, Tenable
Milin Desai
CEO, Sentry
Duncan Godfrey
Security at Rippling
Jim Manico
Former, OWASP Global Board Member
Mark K.
Co-Founder and CTO, Synack
Akto in the news
23rd April, 2026
Akto Joins Cloud Security Alliance as AI Corporate Member
Akto joins CSA as a leading voice in AI safety standards and our CEO and Co-Founder Ankita Gupta will join CSA's AI Safety Ambassador Program council, bringing Akto's practitioner-level expertise in Agentic AI and MCP Security.
23rd April, 2026
Akto Widens AI Agent Security With New Partnerships
Akto Announces Partnerships with Langchain, Portkey, TrueFoundry, Arcade, and LiteLLM to expand AI Agent Security across your AI tech stack.
8th December, 2025
Akto's Releases State of Agentic AI Security 2026 Report
26th September, 2025
Akto Launches AI Agent Security Platform to Secure AI Agents
Akto today announced the launch of the AI Agent Security Platform, the end-to-end security solution purpose-built for the age of autonomous AI agents.
6th June, 2025
Akto Launches Industry's First MCP Security Platform
Akto announced the launch of Akto MCP Security the world's first purpose-built solution designed to secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
