Ultra Security, a Birmingham company that provides real-time visibility and enforcement for AI systems that act on their own, is coming out of stealth backed by $10 million in seed funding.
Startups use stealth (secret development) to protect proprietary technology and intellectual property, prevent well-funded competitors from copying an idea, and build core products without market noise or premature judgment.
Ultra has built an agentic (AI Agent) security platform built for real-time visibility and guardrails so autonomous agents run securely. Investors include Ludlow Ventures, Hidden Capital, Entrée Capital, Detroit Venture Partners, firedrop, and FDVC, along with angels from the broader security and SaaS communities.
Ultra sits between AI agents and the MCP servers and connectors they call. Every tool call, data read, and prompt request runs through Ultra, so organizations can see and control what their agents are doing as it happens, not after the fact.
Ultra was founded in 2025, by Chase Lee, former founder and CEO of Trustpage (acquired by Vanta). Lee saw gaps and vulnerabilities in AI security quickly increasing. Agents were connecting to tools, services, and the rest of the tech stack, and modern security tools were not built for software that acts on its own.
Over the past year in stealth, the Ultra team worked with customers and design partners making it easy to secure AI agents and govern AI use, no matter an organization’s size, security posture, or AI maturity.
Lee says he envisions a future where agents run on all types of devices and hardware, and control over those autonomous bots is critical.
“Agents have moved from chatbots to autonomous software with real access to real systems, and their capabilities grow daily while organizations of all industries and sizes try to keep up,” Lee says. “MCP is becoming the standard way agents connect to tools, APIs, and sensitive data, and adoption is moving faster than the tooling built to watch it.
“We are trusting agents to do work in email, code, and the typical workflow and security stack is not ready for today’s capabilities. Web application firewalls and API gateways were built to watch traffic between people and systems, and cloud posture tools check configuration at a single point in time. None of them see what an agent does inside a live session.”
Most teams, he says, cannot answer a basic question: what are agents doing, when, what data did it touch, and how? Ultra was built to answer that question and solve that problem, according to Lee.
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