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Announcing Asymptote

Justin D'Souza
Justin D'Souza
Co-Founder & CTO
Shukan Shah
Shukan Shah
Co-Founder & CEO

We're incredibly excited to share that Asymptote Labs has raised a pre-seed round from the South Park Commons Founder Fellowship. We're also fortunate to be backed by a select group of seasoned founders and operators from world-class companies across cybersecurity and data infrastructure, whose experience and conviction are a powerful validation of our vision.

The SDLC Has a New Blind Spot: AI

Software now writes the software that runs the world.

AI coding agents are shipping more code, with more autonomy, than any human team could ever hope to keep up with. That creates AI-specific vulnerabilities in prompts, tool calls, and agent workflows that traditional application security tools simply can't see.

Attack vectors include:

  • Prompt injection that turns a code assistant into a data-exfiltration path
  • Over-privileged tool calls against internal APIs
  • Agent chains that quietly route around RBAC and policy

Traditional static-analysis (SAST) tools were never built to see these failures in prompts, tool wiring, or runtime behavior.

This turns your SDLC into a massive new attack surface.

Product security reimagined for an AI-first SDLC

Asymptote is the security layer for this shift.

Our core innovations include the Asymptote Security MCP Server, and an AI observability platform. This enables Asymptote to:

  • Plug into your development stack: coding tools, repos, and pipelines to apply real-time guardrails aligned to standards like the OWASP Top 10 and CWE Top 25.
  • Inspect every AI-generated change before it lands and log exactly what each agent did and why.
  • Keep developers moving fast, while security and platform teams get back the visibility and control they need.

Asymptote monitors what your AI agents do, locks down what they can access, and catches risky changes before they ship. That way you can lean into AI in your SDLC without sacrificing security or control.

Our Team

At Asymptote Labs, we're building a small, focused team of people who care deeply about their craft and push themselves to do the best work of their careers as we grow Asymptote into a category-defining cybersecurity company.

Justin and Shukan bring deep experience building and operating large-scale systems at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and data infrastructure. Their shared journey and complementary perspectives shape Asymptote's principles and continue to drive how we design, build, and iterate on our platform.

Thank You

Last, we want to thank our customers, angel investors and the incredible investor team and community South Park Commons. We're so grateful for your support.

We're just getting started!