Anaconda buys AI-security firm Enkrypt AI
Anaconda acquired AI-security startup Enkrypt AI, adding red-teaming and MCP scanning after Enkrypt found 143,000+ flaws across 25,000 MCP servers.
Anaconda announced on August 4 that it has acquired Enkrypt AI, an AI security and compliance startup, for an undisclosed sum. The deal folds Enkrypt’s pre-deployment red-teaming across 300+ attack categories, runtime guardrails against jailbreaks and data leakage, and NIST/EU AI Act compliance automation into Anaconda’s platform. Anaconda CEO David DeSanto and Enkrypt AI co-founder and CEO Sahil Agarwal announced the deal jointly.
The number behind the acquisition: Enkrypt scanned more than 268,000 tools across 25,000 MCP servers over the past two months and found more than 143,000 vulnerabilities, affecting 73% of the servers it checked. Enkrypt’s research team has also red-teamed models from Anthropic, Mistral, OpenAI, Gemini, and DeepSeek, and says it found exploitable weaknesses in every one.
What it means for operators
The scan numbers matter more than the deal terms. If nearly three in four MCP servers Enkrypt checked had exploitable flaws, and your stack connects agents to any MCP server you didn’t build in-house, that is a concrete audit item, not a hypothetical one. This is the second AI-security acquisition Anaconda has made this year after buying coding-agent tool Kilo Code, a sign that platform vendors are treating agent and MCP security as a feature gap worth acquiring for rather than building alone, the same wave of consolidation behind Zenity’s $125M raise to police AI agents and Obsidian Security’s climb to unicorn status.