Hexboard

Runtime defense for AI agents and tool servers.

A close view of the circuitry on a printed circuit board
Pre-seed

Stage at our first check

2025

Year we invested

Toronto

Headquarters

7 people

Team today

What they do

Founded by Nadia Farouk and Ben Ostrowski.

Every company now runs software that can call tools, read files, and take actions on a user's behalf. Hexboard sits in front of those calls and enforces what an agent is allowed to do, with a record of what it actually did.

It is the boring control layer that security teams will require before they let an agent near production. The company is early and the category is younger than the company.

Why we invested
The surface area here is expanding faster than anyone can patch, and Nadia has been writing runtime defenses since long before agents existed. We would rather back that person early than wait for the category to be obvious.

Ines Carvalho, General Partner

Timeline

How it has gone so far.

First institutional check at pre-seed.

Design partnerships with three security teams.

First paid deployments in regulated industries.

Next step

Building something like Hexboard?

We write first checks at pre-seed and seed, and we answer within two business days.