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Didit, identity and fraud, rebuilt as infrastructure, led by twin brothers Alberto Rosas and Alejandro Rosas, has raised $6 million, bringing the total raised to $7.5 million. This round was backed by Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective, SaaSholic, Founders Future, Phosphor Capital, Rebel Fund, Lobster Capital, alongside angels like Tomer London (co-founder of Gusto) and Taro Fukuyama (founder of Fond), and other amazing VCs and angels who joined the round, operator

Socket, transforming how organizations protect their applications from the rising threat of software supply chain attacks, led by Feross Aboukhadijeh and the team, has raised $60 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, led by Thrive Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Abstract Ventures, and Capital One Ventures, bringing the total funding to $125 million. AI has fundamentally changed how engineering teams write and ship code, dramatically increasing the

Ocean, an agentic email security platform, led by Shay Shwartz and Oran Moyal, has announced its launch from stealth with $28 million in total funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Picture Capital and Cerca Partners. Additional angel investors include Assaf Rappaport (Wiz), Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael (Armis), and Dor Knafo (former CEO of Axis Security and General Partner at Cyberstarts), among other leading angel investors. Ocean is introdu

General Analysis, providing a comprehensive suite of AI safety tools, including run-time guardrails, red-teaming frameworks, interpretability techniques, observability, and more, led by Rez Havaei, Maximilian Li, and Rex Liu, has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Altos Ventures with participation from 645 Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, Leonis Capital, & strategic funds & angels. Agent Security Is an Empirical Problem Traditional software is deterministic and

MindFort, building the security agent company, led by Brandon Veiseh and Akul Gupta, has raised a $3M+ seed round, led by Soma Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, 468 Capital, CRV, Sandwith Ventures, and Blast. The raise comes as Anthropic showcases AI systems capable of uncovering thousands of hidden vulnerabilities, highlighting the limits of traditional security approaches. MindFort addresses this shift with an autonomous security engineer built for continuous,

TENEX.AI , the first leading AI-native, human-led SOC that triages every alert, investigates every threat, and frees your team for strategic work, led by Eric Foster, Venkata Koppaka, Ryan Shreve, Edwin Solis, Jan Grzymala-Busse, Elias “Lou” Manousos, and the team, has raised $250M in Series B funding led by Crosspoint Capital Partners . Nearly one year since entering the market, TENEX has achieved rapid growth, generating $25M+ in contracted revenue, scaling headcount by 3

XBOW , transforming application security with AI-powered continuous offense, led by Oege de Moor, Nico Waisman, Niroshan Rajadurai, Jonaki Egenolf, and others, has raised $120 million in Series C financing led by DFJ Growth and Northzone , valuing the company at over $1 Billion. As part of DFJ Growth’s investment, Ramin Sayar will join XBOW’s board, bringing experience to scale enterprise growth. The round also includes Sofina , Alkeon Capital , and existing investors Alt

Manifold , building runtime security for AI agents on endpoints, led by Oleksandr Yaremchuk, Neal Swaelens, and Michael McKenna, has announced the close of an $8 million seed funding round led by Costanoa Ventures with participation from Cherry Ventures , Rain Capital , and Modern Technical Fund , and notable angel investors including former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan and former Google DeepMind CISO Vijay Bolina. The funding will accelerate development of Manifold’s agentic AI D

Tracebit , the answer to assume breach, led by Andy Smith and Sam Cox, has announced its Series A investment round, led by FirstMark and joined by Accel , MMC Ventures , Tapestry VC , and CCL, with continued support from angel investors. This brings the total investment in Tracebit to $25M. Tracebit was founded three years ago on the belief that an “assume breach” mindset would become increasingly critical, with canary deployments designed to expose attackers the moment they

Armadin , expert AI cybersecurity and cyber defense company, led by Kevin Mandia, Travis Lanham, Evan Peña, David Slater, and the team, has raised an industry record $189.9 million in Seed and Series A funding led by Accel , with participation from Google Ventures , Kleiner Perkins , Menlo Ventures , In-Q-Tel , and follow-on investment from 8VC and Ballistic Ventures , marking the largest combined Seed and Series A funding round in cybersecurity history. Armadin’s mission i

Qevlar , shifting security operations from reactive firefighting to proactive defense, led by Ahmed Achchak , Hamza Sayah , and the team, has raised $30 million in funding for its autonomous AI SOC platform, led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital International , with participation from EQT Ventures . The development follows a period of strong growth, with the company expanding its global customer base to include enterprises such as Mercedes-Benz and Sodexo, alongside leadin

Cotool AI , scaling defensive security with tokens, led by Max Pollard, Logan Carmody, Eddie Conk, and Josh Pachter, has announced a $7.4 Million Seed round, led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from WndrCo and an exceptional group of angel investors. Advances in AI are rapidly scaling cyber offense. Research from Anthropic revealed that a state-sponsored group used its model Claude to support cyber-intrusion operations such as reconnaissance, scripting, and plann

Secfix , the all-in-one security compliance platform for Europe, led by Fabiola Munguia, Grigory Emelianov, and Branko Džakula, has raised $12 million Series A led by Alstin Capital , with participation from Bayern Kapital and continued backing from existing investor Neosfer . The new funding is set to accelerate European expansion and strengthen capabilities. Over the next 12 months, priorities include advancing AI-native features, scaling the automation and CISO-as-a-S

Vega , redefining the boundaries of Security Operations by eliminating the limits of the past, led by Shay Sandler and Eli Rozen , has raised a $120 million Series B round led by Accel with participation from Cyberstarts , Redpoint , and CRV . The new round nearly doubles Vega’s valuation to $700 million, and brings its total funding to $185 million. Enterprises generate massive security data, yet legacy tools like Splunk rely on centralizing it before detecting threats, a

Clearly AI , automating security and privacy assessments, reducing backlogs, and improving visibility without sacrificing trust, led by Emily Choi-Greene and Joe Choi-Greene, has raised $8.4 million in Seed funding from Basis Set Ventures , Crosspoint Capital Partners , Argon Ventures , Ritual Capital , and Y Combinator . Security teams are facing increasing strain. Each new feature, third-party vendor, and AI deployment demands thorough evaluation across security, privacy,

enclaive , a deep tech cybersecurity company specializing in confidential computing, led by Andreas Walbrodt and Sebastian Gajek, has announced the successful closing of a €4.1 million Seed funding round, co-led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund , with participation from Auriga Cyber Ventures . Accelerating AI adoption, stricter data regulations, and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats have turned cloud computing into a high-stakes tradeoff. While th

Refute , fighting disinformation on behalf of your organisation, detecting and responding to campaigns at the speed of the attackers, led by Tom Garnett and Vlad Galu, has raised £5m in seed funding led by Amadeus Capital Partners , with participation from Playfair , Episode 1 , Osney Capital and the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), the UK Government's deep tech venture capital fund that invests in dual-use technologies for national security and defence

Palo Alto Networks , the global cybersecurity leader, led by Nikesh Arora, and others, has announced it has completed its acquisition of Chronosphere , led by Martin Mao , addressing a core challenge of the AI era: the inability to see and secure the massive data volumes running modern businesses. Chronosphere, recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, was built for large-scale cloud-native environments. The acquisition positions P

Mesh Security , the company delivering the world's first Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA) platform, led by Netanel Azoulay and Omri Hering, has secured $12 million in a Series A funding round led by Lobby Capital , with participation from S Ventures ( SentinelOne VC Arm), and Bright Pixel Capital . Mesh acts as the execution layer for modern security, unifying fragmented tools into a single interoperable system that reduces risk and strengthens enterprise resilience

Upwind , building the world’s best cloud security platform, led by Amiram Shachar, Tal Zur, Tomer Hadassi, Rinki Sethi, and others, has raised $250M in a Series B funding round, from Bessemer Venture Partners , Picture Capital , Greylock Partners , Cyberstarts , Craft , Leaders Fund , Swish Ventures , Cerca Partners, Alta Park Capital , TCV , and Penny Jar Capital , bringing the total investment in Upwind to over $430M. Upwind has raised $250M in Series B, bringing total fun