Ankit Gupta, founder of Stackmend

$25M strategic

Stackmend

Stackmend Takes $25M Strategic From Cloud Hyperscaler to Productize Agent Runtime Hardening as a Shared Control Plane

  • Agent Runtime
  • Cloud Infra
  • Enterprise AI

Runtime controls for enterprise agents—tool allowlists, spend caps, and kill paths sold as a co-engineered layer with a major cloud partner.

Ankit Gupta · ex-AWS

“Enterprises will not buy agents without a control plane that looks like infrastructure. We built that plane and sold it as strategic product.”

— Founder

“This is the rare strategic where the product stays independent and the distribution gets real—Stackmend is that hybrid.”

— Matt Garman · Amazon Web Services