JetStream raises $34M seed to bring real-time governance and visibility to enterprise AI

JetStream has entered the AI governance race with fresh capital and a familiar cast of cybersecurity veterans. The San Francisco AI startup announced a $34 million seed round led by Redpoint Ventures, with backing from CrowdStrike’s Falcon Fund and a group of high-profile angel investors, including CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport, and Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest.

The pitch is straightforward: companies are deploying AI agents faster than they can track or control them. JetStream wants to be the control tower.

Founded by former operators from CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Cohesity, McAfee, Attivo Networks, and other companies, JetStream is building a platform that gives enterprises real-time visibility into how AI systems behave in production environments. The company says it is already working with Fortune 500 customers and hiring across engineering, product, and go-to-market roles.

The timing is hard to ignore. Corporate adoption of AI agents, custom models, and automation workflows has surged over the past year. Many teams can spin up powerful AI systems in days. Few can clearly explain what those systems are doing once deployed.

That gap has created a new category of risk.

Companies often cannot answer basic operational questions about their AI stack: which data an agent accessed, which model produced a decision, who approved the workflow, or how much a given run actually cost. Security leaders and boards are starting to treat this visibility gap as a blocker to broader AI rollouts.

AI is moving faster than enterprise controls. JetStream, founded by CrowdStrike and SentinelOne veterans, raises $34M to restore visibility

JetStream is betting that governance becomes the next major layer in the enterprise AI stack.

At the center of the platform is JetStream AI Blueprints™, which the company describes as dynamic graphs that map how AI systems operate in real time. Each Blueprint tracks the relationships between agents, models, data sources, tools, and identities behind every action, whether human or machine. The system focuses on observed runtime behavior rather than static architecture diagrams.

The platform flags activity that drifts from an approved purpose and can update workflows through an authorization process. It also tracks the cost of each AI workflow, assigning accountability for spend at the agent level. The company frames the Blueprint as an operational contract for AI workflows and a single source of truth for enterprise teams.

“AI is moving faster than most organizations can manage,” said Raj Rajamani, CEO and co-founder of JetStream. “Leaders are being asked to bet their businesses and careers on their systems they can’t fully see, explain, or control. That’s where trust breaks down. With AI Blueprints™, we give teams a clear, practical way to understand what their AI is doing, manage risk in real time, and move from experimentation to production with confidence. Our goal is simple: help companies scale AI responsibly, without slowing innovation.”

Investor interest reflects the growing pressure enterprises feel around AI oversight. According to data cited by the company, 93 percent of executives report challenges implementing AI governance and security guardrails. At the same time, more than 80 percent of CEOs remain optimistic about AI returns, even as half say their own roles could be at risk if those investments fall short.

That tension is creating room for new infrastructure players.

“What stood out to us about JetStream is not just the product as an answer to major challenges, but also the team behind it,” said Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures. “These are operators who’ve previously been ahead of every major security shift, and we trust them to stay ahead as agentic AI reshapes how organizations operate.”

JetStream’s founders bring experience from companies that defined earlier waves of enterprise security. The team has led product, engineering, and go-to-market efforts from early stage through IPO at firms such as CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Cohesity, Cylance, Attivo Networks, and McAfee. That background is central to the company’s pitch to large enterprises that already trust those brands.

The seed round closed within weeks, a signal of strong investor appetite for tools that bring order to AI deployments. JetStream says demand from large customers is already driving the company forward as organizations look to move AI projects from pilot programs into production environments with greater confidence.

The broader shift is clear. AI adoption inside enterprises is no longer limited by model capability. It is limited by trust, visibility, and accountability. JetStream is positioning itself squarely at that pressure point, betting that every serious AI deployment will eventually need a governance layer that can keep pace with autonomous systems.