Backslash Security announces their Series A
At First Rays Venture Partners, we invest at inflection points; when a platform shift creates a new category before most of the market realizes it exists. AI-driven software development is that moment.
AI coding has crossed a point of no return.
But this shift is creating one of the largest security blind spots we’ve seen in decades.
AI coding agents behave like an army of talented junior developers but without the architectural judgment, security awareness, or guardrails of experienced engineers.
This is Shadow AI, and it is becoming the fastest-growing attack surface in the enterprise.
That’s why First Rays is proud to participate in Backslash Security’s new Series A financing round.
Backslash is building the control plane for AI-native software development, the enforcement layer for how autonomous code is written, governed, and protected.
Their platform gives organizations:
Full visibility across all AI coding agents, IDEs, MCP servers, Skills and models
Live security posture across those tools
Centralized governance for models, tools, prompts, MCPs and Skills
Real-time protection against data leakage, tool poisoning, and prompt injection
Forensic-grade auditability of every AI-driven action
Unlike retrofitted AppSec, Backslash was built from day one for agentic development — scanning MCPs, validating AI rules, and enforcing inbound and outbound protection before damage can occur. The team has already earned the trust of leading organizations like Monday, Chipotle, PandaDoc,... protecting their AI-driven software factories. At First Rays, we believe:
The next generation of software will be written by AI agents.
The winners will be the teams that can see them, govern them, and protect them — in real time.
Backslash is that platform.
We’re excited to partner with this team as they build the security layer for the AI-native enterprise. 🚀
