Archestra Inc., a startup providing a platform for artificial intelligence agents and Model Context Protocol servers, today announced that it has raised $3.3 million in new funding to develop its open-source security-first platform for safely deploying AI agents and MCP servers in enterprise environments.
Archestra was founded by serial founders Matvey Kukuy and Ildar Iskhakov in 2024. Matvey and Ildar were the founders of incident management platform Amixr, which was acquired by to Grafana Labs in 2021. Matvey went on to co-found AIOps platform Keep Alerting Ltd., which was acquired to Elastic Inc. in May.
Archestra offers an open-source platform designed to help nontechnical teams securely connect AI agents to enterprise data using MCP. Introduced by Anthropic PBC last year, MCP allows AI systems to integrate with external tools, databases and application programming interfaces.
But it comes with significant security and compliance risks if not properly controlled. Archestra addresses these challenges by offering an enterprise-ready solution that allows organizations to safely adopt MCP without giving AI agents unrestricted or unsafe access to sensitive systems.
The Archestra platform functions as an “MCP orchestrator” that adds critical layers of security, orchestration, guardrails, context management and dynamic permission controls, allowing enterprises to set clear boundaries for AI agent behavior, such as limiting access to specific datasets or workflows, while still enabling powerful, human-in-the-loop AI automations. The open-source aspect of the platform provides transparency, letting businesses inspect and trust the security model before deploying it in production environments.
Whether a human resource manager is connecting AI to employee onboarding systems or a finance team is automating contract reviews, the platform ensures that the benefits of MCP can be realized without exposing the organization to data leaks, compliance breaches, or operational disruptions, the company says.
“MCP is unlocking a new frontier for AI agents and initiating a major shift for the whole iPaaS market. But today, it’s completely unsuitable for the enterprise,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Matvey Kukuy. “We’re building the security-first solution that will change this. Our open-source platform means anyone, whether you’re an engineer or a HR rep, can safely and impactfully integrate AI agents into their workflow.”
The pre-seed round included Zero Prime Ventures, Celero Ventures, RTP Global Management and Aloniq Inc.
“Just as APIs became the foundational building blocks for internet infrastructure, MCPs are emerging as the connective tissue for improving the context layer of AI tools within enterprise,” said Ariel Rahamim, principal at Concept Ventures. “Archestra is building the infrastructure layer this ecosystem needs.”
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