Lumia, an AI security and governance platform that helps enterprises monitor and control employee use of artificial intelligence and autonomous agents, announced Thursday it has raised an $18 million seed round led by Team8 with participation from New Era.
As part of the announcement, the company said it is appointing retired Adm. Michael Rogers — former director of the National Security Agency and former commander of U.S. Cyber Command — to its advisory board.
Lumia’s founders said the new funds will allow the company to expand engineering and research teams, deepen integrations with major AI ecosystems and enterprise infrastructure and scale go-to-market operations, particularly with design-partner customers in financial services, technology and other highly regulated industries.
Enterprise use of autonomous AI agents is growing rapidly. A recent Gartner report projects that 40% of enterprise applications will embed task-specific AI agents over the next year, up from less than 5% in 2025. These tools increasingly draft contracts, analyze sensitive data and trigger automated actions, often outside traditional IT oversight, raising concerns about accountability and security.
Lumia’s platform aims to address that gap by evaluating context, content, intent and actions across AI interactions — whether performed by human users or autonomous agents. The company says its system assesses exposure risks, enforces dynamic policies and gives enterprises full visibility into which agents are performing what actions and under what permissions. The platform integrates at the network-gateway level, requires no endpoint modifications and supports thousands of AI applications.
“Autonomous AI is accelerating faster than most organizations are prepared for,” Rogers said in a statement. “Enterprises need early visibility, clear guardrails, and a framework for accountability before these systems become embedded in every workflow.”
Lumia was founded by Omri Iluz, formerly co-founder and CEO of PerimeterX, and Bobi Gilburd, former CTO in Unit 8200.
Iluz said the goal is to help companies adopt AI without slowing innovation. “The pressure on CISOs is huge — they cannot afford to be the ones pulling back the business on the greatest productivity boost in this century. However, AI introduces risks that the business just cannot afford,” he said. “Lumia allows enterprises to adopt AI securely and responsibly. Allowing broad usage while putting seamless controls in place.”
According to the company, its system is powered by a proprietary Protocol Analysis Engine that evaluates risk and enforces policy at scale without disrupting productivity.