Bay AI Launches With $50M to Vet Agent Actions

Israeli AI security startup Bay AI Inc. launched with $50 million in funding to help enterprises control what AI agents do before they act. Its software inventories agents across laptops, cloud workloads and SaaS apps, then checks each proposed action on the device itself in milliseconds, blocking anything too risky. Policies are auto-drafted from 30 days of agent activity, reducing manual rule-writing. Customers include Micron, Wix, ClickUp and Peloton. Battery Ventures led a $37 million Series A; a $13 million seed round was co-led by YL Ventures and Striker Venture Partners.