AI infrastructure / 2 companies

Connectors & auth

How an agent signs in to other software, and what it is allowed to do once it is in.

2 companies on the roster work here.

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Connectors & auth

Cerbos

Decides whether a user or an agent may take an action, from one set of policies.

The runtime permission layer for AI agents — the company answering "what is this agent actually allowed to do", which is the control almost every agent stack is currently missing.

Seedsince September 2026

Connectors & auth

Metorial

Hosts the MCP servers that let an agent reach tools like Salesforce or Slack.

They are building the plumbing that decides which tools an agent may touch and who gets to say so — the governance layer of the MCP stack — at a size where the founders still answer their own mail.

since September 2026

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