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Onyx Security
A control plane for AI agents. Onyx gives security teams visibility, governance and protection across the agents a company runs, from discovery to runtime.
Shadow AI Discovery & Workforce AI Governancealso: AI Runtime Security & Guardrails51-200 peopleonyx.security ↗
Updated 12 October 2026
Hiring now
From Onyx Security's own jobs board, checked every week.
Building its first sales team. It is advertising for its first account executive, the hires a company makes when it starts selling properly.
Where the roles are
Against its sector
5 of the 16 active companies in Shadow AI Discovery & Workforce AI Governance are advertising roles. WitnessAI has the most, with 8.
Funding
Onyx Security announced a $113 million Series B in July 2026, led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
Source: Onyx Security's announcement
Who Onyx Security competes with
The other active companies we file under Shadow AI Discovery & Workforce AI Governance, sorted by how much they are hiring.
Where this fits
Finding the AI tools employees are already using without telling anyone, and governing what staff may put into them. Every company of any size has this problem.
We track hiring and team changes across all 186 companies in AI Safety, Security & Governance.
Our talent report for this sector shows how Onyx Security's team compares with its competitors.
What is in it:
- Every company's team size, side by side, grouped by sub-sector
- Who grew their team over the last year, and by how much
- Who is losing people: attrition for each company, against the sector average
- Who is hiring right now, and how many open roles each has
I am Ben Jackson. I map this market, and I hire the commercial teams inside it: sales, marketing, product and delivery.
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