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Oligo vs Operant AI

Oligo gives security teams real-time runtime intelligence across code, cloud, and AI. Operant AI sells one platform covering Endpoints, Agents, MCPs, and AI applications. CISO Tribune files both under AI model and agent security. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Oligo vs Operant AI: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
OligoOligo gives security teams real-time runtime intelligence across code, cloud, and AI.oligo.securityOperant AIOperant AI sells one platform covering Endpoints, Agents, MCPs, and AI applications.operant.ai
What it sells
  • AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM)[11]Oligo AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) delivers real-time visibility and control over every AI asset running in the environment.
  • Real-Time BOM[8]Oligo generates a Real-Time BOM that detects exactly which libraries are executed.
  • Operant Semantic Firewall[1][7]Understands the intent behind every agent action and enforces an allow, block, or redact decision inline, in real time.
  • Agent Protector[1][5][6]Inventories all AI agents operating within an organization's infrastructure.
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Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesSan Francisco, United States[2]
Founded
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Ownership and funding
Privately heldPrivately held[1][3]
Named customers
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Recent news
  • August 4, 2026Oligo Security announced the completion of a $60 million financing round, bringing its total funding to $140 million.[16]
  • August 4, 2026Oligo Security said it raised $60 million in new funding to speed up product innovation and expand its global go-to-market operations.[15]
  • May 4, 2026Operant AI launched Operant Endpoint Protector, a new addition to its AI Defense Platform for discovering and defending against threats across AI tools and coding agents.[4]
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Who it fits
Oligo addresses security operations teams that are flooded with alerts and overwhelmed by false positives. Oligo addresses teams protecting IaaS and containerized environments and applications. Oligo pages address organizations that need to keep compliant with FedRAMP, PCI 4.0, and license policies.It describes plans for teams putting their first production AI into customers' hands and for companies running AI across teams and products with critical data and compliance requirements. Its pages say regulated and government deployments mostly use the VPC, on-premise, or air-gapped options on the Enterprise plan. Workloads it covers range from coding agents on employee laptops to cloud agents across any infra.
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October 23, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Oligo and Operant AI are both filed under AI model and agent security.
  • Both are privately held.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Oligo's primary category is Cloud workload protection; Operant AI's is AI firewalls and guardrails.
  • Oligo is also filed under Software composition analysis.
  • Oligo lists AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) and Real-Time BOM. Operant AI lists Operant Semantic Firewall and Agent Protector.
  • Operant AI is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.

What it sells: Oligo

What AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) does[11]
Oligo generates a real-time bill of materials for every AI component and dependency. Oligo can detect drift, unauthorized model changes, and risky third-party AI services.
What Real-Time BOM does[8]
Oligo enriches SBOMs with exploitability determinations. Oligo VEX and Real-Time BOMs are generated from running applications.

What it sells: Operant AI

What Operant Semantic Firewall does[1][7]
Operant Semantic Firewall holds an agent to its assigned purpose across the whole session, catching drift from manipulation or its own initiative. Operant can redact the sensitive part of an action and let the agent keep working within scope, instead of killing the workflow.
What Agent Protector does[1][5][6]
Agent Protector covers managed agents deployed through official channels and unmanaged agents running in cloud environments, SaaS platforms, and development tools. Agent Protector analyzes agent behavior patterns to identify and prevent security threats before they execute.

Questions about Oligo and Operant AI

What do Oligo and Operant AI sell?
Oligo sells AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) and Real-Time BOM. Operant AI sells Operant Semantic Firewall and Agent Protector.
Are Oligo and Operant AI in the same category?
They share AI model and agent security. Oligo's primary category is Cloud workload protection and Operant AI's is AI firewalls and guardrails.
Where are Oligo and Operant AI headquartered?
Operant AI is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
Who owns Oligo and Operant AI?
Oligo is privately held. Operant AI is privately held.
Who are Oligo and Operant AI sold to?
Oligo addresses security operations teams that are flooded with alerts and overwhelmed by false positives. It describes plans for teams putting their first production AI into customers' hands and for companies running AI across teams and products with critical data and compliance requirements.
What have Oligo and Operant AI announced recently?
August 4, 2026: Oligo Security announced the completion of a $60 million financing round, bringing its total funding to $140 million. May 4, 2026: Operant AI launched Operant Endpoint Protector, a new addition to its AI Defense Platform for discovering and defending against threats across AI tools and coding agents.

About Oligo

Oligo gives security teams real-time runtime intelligence across code, cloud, and AI.[1][3]

Oligo catches zero-days and active exploit attempts in real time. The Oligo sensor is built around patented eBPF technology that identifies when attackers start to use applications in unintended ways. Oligo ties malicious CWPP detections to exploits seen at the application layer. Oligo protects workloads and hosts against malware, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and more.[3][4][5]

Oligo can pinpoint exact containers, pods, and code paths under attack. Oligo can block or alert on unauthorized external network connections. Oligo detects risks originating in CVEs, malicious packages, misconfigurations, zero-days, undisclosed risks, and disputed vulnerabilities. Oligo flags suspicious processes, Kubernetes, network, and file activity across all workloads and hosts. Oligo can limit library-level permissions to stop breaches in progress. Oligo maps suspicious behavior across the MITRE ATT&CK framework.[3][4][5][9]

Oligo pinpoints vulnerabilities that are actively loaded into execution memory. Oligo can distinguish between vulnerable code on disk and code in execution. Oligo prioritizes risks across packages, images, and workloads based on what is running in applications. Oligo provides call stacks and runtime proof that vulnerable libraries exist in running applications. Oligo can identify malicious packages, configuration-based vulnerabilities, and libraries that have already been breached.[3][5][6][7]

Oligo makes standard SBOMs and generates a Real-Time BOM that detects exactly which libraries are executed. Oligo enriches SBOMs with exploitability determinations. Oligo VEX and Real-Time BOMs are generated from running applications. Oligo can trace malicious code back to its original source repository after detection. If attackers activate malicious code that was previously dormant, the Oligo sensor detects indicators of compromise and limits library-level permissions.[7][8][9]

Oligo enables compliance with multiple segments of PCI 4.0 Requirement 2. Oligo lets users set different allowable license types for different applications and application types, with alerts whenever policies are violated.[10]

Oligo AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) delivers real-time visibility and control over every AI asset running in the environment. Oligo safeguards open-source AI models, LLM frameworks such as LangChain/Hugging Face, and agent workflows against malicious exploits, model tampering, and unauthorized data leakage in runtime environments. Oligo can inspect model files and dependencies loaded into GPU/CPU memory. Oligo can prevent AI agents from making unvetted egress API calls. Oligo gives real-time insight into shadow AI components running in cluster. Oligo generates a real-time bill of materials for every AI component and dependency.[1][3][11]

Oligo deploys in minutes for modern cloud applications built on K8s or older applications hosted on-prem. Oligo makes no changes to customer code when it is deployed. Oligo describes the application security sensor as one sensor per host that monitors code in real time. Oligo describes cloud application and workload security as a siloed process in which SOC, AppSec, and CloudSec teams each chase their own alerts.[1][2][6][7][10][11][12][13][14]

Oligo on the record

Sources

Oligo full record

  1. [1]oligo.securityOligo Security · oligo.security · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]OLIGO Security Crosses $140M in Total Funding with $60M Round to Stop AI Driven AttacksBusiness Wire · businesswire.com · published August 4, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Runtime Security | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Detection and Response | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Workload Protection | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Application Security | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Application Vulnerability Management | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Real-Time BOM | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Supply Chain Security | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Compliance and Assurance | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]AI Security Management | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Runtime Security Leadership | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Security Operations | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Cloud Security | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Oligo Security raises $60M as AI speeds up exploit development - SiliconANGLESiliconANGLE · published August 4, 2026 · Tier B
  16. [16]Israeli runtime security co Oligo raises $60m - GlobesGlobes · published August 4, 2026 · Tier B

Operant AI full record

  1. [1]Operant AI - Secure Your AIOperant AI · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Operant ai launches agent protector the first real time agentic security solution enabling safe ai agent innovation at scaleOperant AI via GlobeNewswire · globenewswire.com · published February 5, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Operant ai secures 10m series a to protect the modern cloud across apis applications and aiOperant AI via GlobeNewswire · globenewswire.com · published September 12, 2024 · Tier A
  4. [4]Operant AI Endpoint Protector secures AI agents and MCP toolsHelp Net Security · published May 4, 2026 · Tier B
  5. [5]Pricing - AI & Agent Security Platform | Operant AIOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Agent Protector: Real-Time AI Agent Security | OperantOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Operant Semantic Firewall | Govern AI Agents in Real TimeOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Operant MCP GatewayOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]AI GatekeeperOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]AI Application SecurityOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]API & Cloud Protector | Real-Time API Security | Operant AIOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Woodpecker: Open Source Red Teaming for AI, APIs & K8sOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]FAQsOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Start Your Free 7-Day Trial | Operant AI Security PlatformOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

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