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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

Asymmetric Security , the first AI-native Digital Forensics and incident response company, led by Zainab Ali Majid , Pippa Thompson , and Alexis Carlier , has announced  its launch and raised a $4.2M pre-seed led by Chad Byers at Susa Ventures , with participation from others including Halcyon Ventures, Overlook Ventures , Seldon Lab , Matt Clifford, Geoff Ralston, Charlie Songhurst, and AI and security leaders from Anthropic and Google DeepMind. Hundreds of real-world cybera

Stoik , combining insurance and cybersecurity to help companies control their exposure to cyber risk, led by Jules Veyrat, Alexandre Andreini, Nicolas Sayer, Franziska Geier, and Philippe Mangematin, has announced the closing of a €20 Million Series C funding round co-led by Impala , owned by the Veyrat family, which joins the company as a new investor, and Opera Tech Ventures , a long-standing investor of Stoïk, with the participation of existing investors Alven  and Andrees

WitnessAI , a platform that helps enterprises protect and accelerate their AI journey across the rapidly evolving AI tech stacks, led by Rick Caccia, Gil Spencer, Stephanie Gilliam, and others, has secured  strategic funding of $58 million led by Sound Ventures , with participation from Fin Capital , Qualcomm Ventures , Samsung Ventures, and Forgepoint Capital Partners . The company also unveiled expanded agentic AI governance capabilities that bring observability to global e

depthfirst , an applied AI Lab solving security’s AI-era problems, led by Daniele Perito, Qasim Mithani, and Andrea Michi, has secured $40M Series A round, led by Accel  with participation from Alt Capital , BoxGroup , Liquid 2 Ventures , Mantis VC , SV Angel , and notable angel investors including Jeff Dean, Kirsten Green, Colin Evans, Logan Kilpatrick, and Julian Schrittwieser. depthfirst’s General Security Intelligence platform introduces a unified AI system that detects,

Aikido , securing your code, cloud, and runtime in one central system, led by Willem Delbare , Roeland Delrue , Felix Garriau , and others, has secured $60 million in Series B at a $1B valuation, led by Tom Stafford at DST Global , with participation from PSG Equity , Singular, Notion Capital , and others. Aikido was created to fix a core problem in security: developers were being burdened, not supported. Traditional tools generated noise instead of clarity and complexity ins