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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

Torq , the AI security platform, led by Ofer Smadari, Leonid Belkind, Eldad Livni, and others, has secured a massive $140 million Series D funding round led by Merlin Ventures with participation from all existing investors, including Evolution Equity Partners , Notable Capital , Bessemer Venture Partners , Insight Ventures Partners , and Greenfield Partners , propelling its valuation to $1.2 billion and total funding to $332M. Torq is transforming Security Operations Center

Cyera , the AI-native data security platform, led by Yotam Segev, Tamar Bar-Ilan, and others, has secured $400 million in funding. AI now demands a new security model. Public data powered the first wave; proprietary data will drive the next. As agentic AI spreads across enterprises, automated systems generate massive volumes of actions and decisions, expanding exposure. The real challenge is securing this ecosystem. Legacy security tools cannot see or control the data AI dep

Armis , the cyber exposure management & security company, protects the entire attack surface and manages an organization’s cyber risk exposure in real time, led by Yevgeny Dibrov, Nadir Izrael, and others, is being acquired by ServiceNow . The move represents a strategic step forward for customers and the broader mission. Since its inception, Armis has focused on enabling organizations to see, protect, and manage every asset across IT, OT, IoT, medical devices, cloud, and co

Exein , a global leader in embedded IoT cybersecurity, led by Gianni Cuozzo, Giovanni Alberto Falcione, Gerardo Gagliardo, and Gary Walshe, has raised €100 million in new funding led by Blue Cloud Ventures , with participation from HV Capital , Intrepid Growth Partners , Geodesic , and J.P. Morgan . The new funding will drive next-generation AI security and international growth. It will enable: Development of embedded runtime security for connected devices, including AI-

Adaptive Security , protecting your organization from AI-powered attacks like deepfakes, smishing, and vishing, led by Brian Long and Andrew Jones, has secured $81M Series B from new investors NVIDIA , Bain Capital Ventures , Capital One Ventures , and Citi Venture s, alongside participation from existing investors including the OpenAI Startup Fund , Abstract Ventures , and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Less than a year after launch, Adaptive now protects more than 500 enterpr

Soverli , an ETH-Zurich spin-off, led by Ivan Puddu and Moritz Schneider, has secured $2.6 million in pre-seed funding led by Founderful , with participation from the ETH Zurich Foundation , Venture Kick , and cybersecurity industry figures. Built on four years of ETH Zurich research, Soverli’s patent-pending technology runs multiple isolated operating systems on a single device, enabling a sovereign OS to operate alongside Android on standard smartphones with fast, seamless

Saviynt , securing over 100 million identities at global leaders, led by Sachin Nayyar, Paul Zolfaghari, Shankar Ganapathy, Ajay Garg, Jeff Margolies, Atul Vij, Akshay Sivananda, and others, has secured a $700M Series B Growth Equity Financing at a valuation of approximately $3 billion led by Funds managed by KKR , with participation from Sixth Street Growth and TenEleven , as well as new funding from existing Series A investor Carrick Capital Partners . The multi-firm inve

Imper.ai , a pioneer in real-time cyber impersonation prevention, led by Noam Awadish, Anatoly Blighovsky, and Rom Dudkiewicz, has announced its public launch and $28 million in new funding from Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures , with participation from Maple VC , Vessy VC , and Cerca Partners. Imper.ai ’s platform identifies impersonation risks in real time, maintaining privacy and accuracy across widely used communication platforms including Zoom, Teams, and Slack. B

Multifactor , redefining zero-trust so you can protect your accounts with confidence, led by Vivek Nair, Ph.D. and Colin Roberts, Ph.D., has secured $15M seed round led by Nexus Venture Partners , with participation from amazing funds like Y Combinator , Taurus Ventures , Honeystone Ventures , Flex Capital , Pioneer Fund , Ritual Capital , Liquid2 Ventures and leading operators across security, AI and enterprise software including Mohan Warrior & Padma Warrior, Gokul Rajaram