Palo Alto Networks has announced plans to acquire Portkey, a Bengaluru-founded AI infrastructure company, in a deal expected to close in the fourth quarter of Palo Alto’s fiscal year 2026.
Palo Alto Networks intends to integrate Portkey into its Prisma AIRS platform, where it will serve as a centralized AI gateway to monitor, route, and secure AI-driven interactions across enterprise environments. The company said the move addresses a growing security gap as organizations shift from AI copilots to autonomous systems that operate with broad access across internal and external workflows.
Portkey provides infrastructure for managing AI agents at scale, processing trillions of tokens per month with low latency. Its platform supports runtime inspection of AI traffic, governance policy enforcement, identity-based controls, semantic routing, failover capabilities, telemetry, and audit logging. The integration is expected to help enterprises consolidate fragmented AI tooling into a single control layer and reduce operational costs through features such as caching and usage limits.
The acquisition comes less than two and a half months after Portkey raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Elevation Capital and Lightspeed in 2026. The startup had previously secured $3 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed in August 2023.
Palo Alto Networks, headquartered in California, said it will continue to support Portkey’s existing customer base after the deal closes. The acquisition may give enterprises a unified interface for accessing a wide range of large language models and AI tools, while improving oversight of autonomous agent behavior — an area where security controls have historically lagged deployment.
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