What happened
Boston-based Neo (founded by ex-SentinelOne/Wiz/Palo Alto veterans) launched publicly July 20, 2026 with $100M seed+Series A, shipping a platform that inventories AI agents, browser extensions, plugins and AI-enabled apps, assesses their access/permissions, attributes actions to identities, and can pause or block risky agent behavior at the endpoint.
Why it matters
Addresses the 'zombie agent' governance gap (CyberArk cited 68% of enterprises lack identity controls for deployed agents) and landed the same week as the OpenAI-Hugging Face agent breakout incident, giving the AI-agent-governance category real urgency.
Applicability
Enterprise security/identity teams evaluating AI agent inventory and behavioral control tools, especially those with heavy coding-assistant/browser-agent adoption.