SquareX Lands Strategic Investment From Wipro Ventures as Browser Security Arms Race Accelerates

SquareX, a rising player in the rapidly expanding browser security arena, has secured a new strategic partnership with Wipro Ventures, the investment arm of Wipro Limited. The investment folds into SquareX’s Series A round that SYN Ventures and Peak XV kicked off earlier this year, but the signal it sends is bigger than the check size. A global systems integrator is now staking a claim in what many security leaders increasingly view as the next battleground for enterprise defense.

Browser traffic has quietly become the main entry point for attackers who have learned to skirt traditional endpoint and network controls. Security teams are now facing an uptick in threats that misuse the browser itself, exploiting extensions, identity tokens and emerging tactics like data splicing attacks. SquareX has built its business around this shift with a category it calls Browser Detection and Response. Its browser extension aims to add real-time threat visibility and containment at the point where users actually click, type and authenticate.

That mission appears to have resonated with Wipro Ventures. “Browser security has become a major priority for many of our customers, especially with the upsurge in attacks and data leakage coming from the browser,” says Ali Wasti, Managing Partner at Wipro Ventures. “SquareX’s technology and their team’s deep understanding of browser-native threats are of significant value to our customers, as they tackle this new attack vector. We are excited to partner with SquareX in providing Wipro’s existing and new customers with SquareX’s Browser Detection and Response solution.”

SquareX’s pitch is deceptively simple. Instead of requiring enterprises to deploy a full dedicated enterprise browser or rearchitect their network routes, it slips into the environment as a standard browser extension. That lets organizations protect Chrome, Safari, Edge or almost anything else without forcing employees to change how they work. The extension monitors for rogue AI agents that act inside the browser, malicious extensions that piggyback on user permissions and identity attacks that exploit tokens or session data. Because it sits inside the browser environment itself, it can spot behaviors that SASE, SSE and EDR platforms historically miss.

The approach also positions SquareX as an alternative to pure enterprise browsers, which can deliver strong security but often bring administrative overhead and user friction. SquareX wants to provide the same guardrails while keeping the browser experience familiar. For companies that operate with mixed devices, contractors or bring your own device environments, that flexibility is becoming a strong selling point.

For SquareX founder Vivek Ramachandran, Wipro’s involvement is more than a validation. It represents the distribution muscle that young cybersecurity companies struggle to build on their own. “We are delighted to join forces with Wipro as we continue to pioneer the industry’s first Browser Detection and Response solution,” said Ramachandran. “As organizations worldwide grapple with increasingly sophisticated browser-based attacks, having a strategic partner like Wipro, who has deep enterprise relationships and global reach, will play a critical role in accelerating our mission to enable employees to be fearless online.”

The browser has outgrown its role as a simple productivity tool. It is now the primary place where business applications live, where AI agents execute tasks and where sensitive identity tokens get passed around. That shift is creating a vacuum in enterprise visibility, and attackers have been quick to jump in. Large security vendors are now racing to plug the gap from the endpoint, the network and the identity stack, but none have fully solved what happens inside the browser tab itself.

SquareX believes its extension-based approach can become the missing layer. With Wipro Ventures stepping in, the company is likely to find itself in front of a much larger class of global enterprises who are tired of watching attackers slip through one of their last unprotected surfaces.