Geordie, a purpose-built security and governance platform for AI agents, has raised £22 million in a Series A led by Balderton Capital. The round included participation from Crosspoint Capital, as well as follow-on investment from existing investors General Catalyst and Ten Eleven Ventures, bringing total funding to $36.5 million. The capital will be used to expand engineering and go-to-market teams, with a focus on growing Geordie's US operations.
Enterprises are increasingly deploying AI agents as the primary mechanism for operationalising AI, but security and IT teams lack the visibility, governance, and operational controls needed to do so safely. Geordie addresses this gap by providing a real-time understanding of which agents exist, what they can access, how they behave, and the risks they create across enterprise systems. The platform also includes Beam, a runtime remediation suite that uses context engineering to proactively shape and constrain agent behaviour without slowing innovation.
At Owkin, an AI-first drug discovery and biomedical research company running hundreds of agents across more than 50 petabytes of data, a single Geordie proof of concept allowed the company to avert exposure that, according to its own risk quantification methodology, totalled between $12 million and $13 million.
Founded by alumni of Darktrace and Snyk, Geordie has posted 1,300% ARR growth in the first five months of 2026 and won the 2026 RSAC Innovation Sandbox. As part of this investment round, James Wise, Partner at Balderton Capital, will be joining the company's board.
The organisations today that can safely approve and deploy AI agents are the ones that are capturing a new competitive advantage in their space. Geordie enables teams to take a holistic, defence in depth approach so they can deploy their AI agent systems safely at scale.
For us, AI agents are a necessity to our competitive advantage. We chose Geordie because of its purpose-built approach, which doesn't risk the business innovation that started our AI agent journey in the first place. We're seeing the iceberg that rocked the Titanic weeks in advance rather than the moment it appears on screen.
When we backed Geordie at seed, agentic AI security was still a hypothesis. In just six months, AI agents have moved from pilot to production faster than most enterprises were ready for. Geordie's growth in that short time confirms that Henry, Hanah, and Benji correctly identified that trajectory and we are excited to continue to invest in them.
AI agents are becoming the operating system of the modern enterprise, but security and governance infrastructure has struggled to keep pace. Geordie fills that gap with a purpose-built platform that gives security teams the visibility and control they need to deploy agents confidently and at scale. What gives us particular conviction is the team: we have followed the founders since their time at Darktrace and Snyk, and they understand better than almost anyone how to build behavioural security that works in complex, dynamic environments. We're proud to lead this round and support Geordie as they become the foundational security layer for the agentic era.
