Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M

By Marina Temkin · TechCrunch · Friday, 6 November 2026 at 06:28 (32m ago) · Original article ↗

Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.

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