Recognition
Securing AI agents is a claim every vendor makes. These are the occasions where people outside the company — a jury, an editorial team, an operator running agents at carrier scale — looked at the gateway and made a judgement of their own.
VivaTech · 2026
Hodor took the top prize at Europe's flagship AI and technology startup event. The finalists pitched live to a jury that included TechCrunch, Nvidia's startup ecosystem lead, and partners from Speedinvest and Serena.
Source: VivaTech Awards — Innovation of the Year, 2026 winner
The identity and permission engine for AI agents
VivaTech recognised Hodor for giving CTOs and CISOs visibility and control over every agent action, before it becomes a security incident.
An MCP gateway with policy-as-code and PII redaction
The award recognised Hodor's MCP security gateway for enforcing fine-grained, zero-trust access control on every tool call an AI agent makes to an internal application.
Built for production
Audit logging, a replayable compliance trail and self-hosted deployment were central to the win, and are what make the gateway usable in regulated and enterprise environments.
TechCrunch · 2026
Hodor was selected for TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield 200, the cohort of startups presenting at TechCrunch Disrupt, and is one of the few AI agent security companies on the list.
Spotlighted in cybersecurity
TechCrunch placed Hodor in the cybersecurity cohort, alongside the startups its editors expect to define AI agent security in the coming year.
Listed as an MCP gateway
The listing's own descriptor: Hodor — MCP gateway between AI and applications.
Orange · Agentic AI Challenge
Hodor was one of two startups Orange chose to secure, govern and observe enterprise AI agents at scale. The selection was made under the company's former name, Colibri.
Source: Maddyness — Orange distingue les startups Colibri et Swish.ai
An identity and a permission scope for every agent
Orange recognised Hodor for giving each AI agent a unique identity and a strictly defined permission scope, so an enterprise always knows whether an AI or a person performed an action — no shared accounts, no audit blind spots.
For interviews, briefings or logo and brand assets, write to contact@hodor.ai. Hodor SAS is headquartered in France, with infrastructure in the European Union.
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