• Critical Ventures set investment priorities around AI agent security, targeting approval verification, continuous adversarial testing, and protection for embedded systems agents will control.
• The firm expects large security platforms to cover identity discovery, access controls, and runtime enforcement, leaving fewer openings for new standalone vendors.
• Future backing will favor founders who can demonstrate working integrations inside real customer workflows.

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