Dubai based Lyrie.ai has raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round as the company prepares to scale its AI cybersecurity platform and expand deployment across enterprise and government environments.
The company operates under OTT Cybersecurity LLC and focuses on building security infrastructure for autonomous AI agents.
Growing Demand for AI Agent Security
The funding comes as businesses rapidly adopt AI agents for tasks such as coding, communication, transaction processing, and workflow automation. While AI adoption continues to grow, security standards around AI agents still remain limited.
Most AI systems today lack clear frameworks for identity verification, access control, authorization, and tamper detection. Lyrie.ai aims to solve this challenge by building a trust layer that allows organizations to securely manage AI agents operating inside sensitive digital systems.
Guy Sheetrit, Founder and CEO of OTT Cybersecurity LLC, said the current AI ecosystem is growing without proper security foundations in place.
“Every AI agent on the internet today is effectively anonymous. No identity verification, no scope enforcement, no tamper detection.”
Launch of Agent Trust Protocol (ATP)
Alongside the funding announcement, Lyrie.ai introduced the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP), an open cryptographic standard for AI agent identity and authorization management.
The protocol focuses on AI agent identity verification, permission management, delegation, attestation, and revocation. The company plans to release ATP as a royalty-free standard for developers and organizations globally.
Lyrie.ai is also preparing ATP for submission to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which could help establish it as a broader industry standard for AI security infrastructure.
The company compares ATP’s long-term role in AI systems to the way SSL/TLS became a foundational security layer for the internet.
How the Company Will Use the Funding
Lyrie.ai plans to use the $2 million funding to expand its security research team, scale infrastructure, and strengthen enterprise and government partnerships.
The company will also accelerate development and operational deployment of ATP across its platform and partner ecosystem.
As part of its growth strategy, Lyrie.ai is preparing for a future Series A funding round focused on scaling enterprise adoption globally.
Platform Capabilities
The company’s platform delivers autonomous offensive and defensive cybersecurity tools for AI environments.
Its platform supports autonomous penetration testing, adversarial AI red teaming, zero-day vulnerability research, and OWASP ASI 2026 threat coverage. The infrastructure is designed to support deployment across enterprise GPU systems as well as consumer hardware environments.
Lyrie.ai also announced that it has been accepted into Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program, which supports verified cybersecurity operators working on advanced AI infrastructure and security research.
What This Means for the UAE Startup Ecosystem
The funding highlights growing investor interest in AI infrastructure and cybersecurity startups across the UAE and wider MENA region.
The UAE continues to attract strong startup investment activity across sectors such as AI, fintech, enterprise software, and digital infrastructure. Recent regional funding reports show that investors are increasingly focusing on startups with strong infrastructure capabilities, operational efficiency, and enterprise-focused business models.
