Lumia Security, an Agentic AI Security Platform, Secures $18 Million Seed Round, Appoints Former NSA Director to Advisory Board

Lumia, an AI Security and Governance platform helping enterprises safely adopt AI and autonomous agents, led by Omri Iluz and Bobi Gilburd, has secured $18 million seed round led by Team8 with support from New Era. As part of the announcement, the company is appointing Admiral Michael Rogers, former Director of the NSA and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, to its Advisory Board.

Enterprise use of AI agents is rising quickly, with Gartner expecting 40% of enterprise applications to embed task-specific agents within a year, up from below 5% in 2025. As agents handle sensitive tasks and trigger automated actions outside traditional IT controls, new governance challenges are emerging. Lumia addresses these risks by interpreting context, intent, and actions across all AI interactions, enforcing adaptive policies, and offering full visibility into agent behavior. With broad application support and gateway-level integration, the platform delivers infrastructure-native, agentless governance without endpoint changes.

Admiral Michael Rogers, former Director of the NSA and newly appointed advisory board member at Lumia, noted that autonomous AI is advancing more quickly than most organizations can accommodate, underscoring the need for early visibility, defined guardrails, and accountable governance frameworks before such systems become embedded across workflows. Founded by Omri Iluz and Bobi Gilburd, Lumia plans to use the new funding to expand engineering and research efforts, strengthen integrations with major AI ecosystems and enterprise infrastructure, and scale go-to-market initiatives with design-partner customers in financial services, technology, and other data-sensitive sectors.

Omri Iluz, Lumia’s Co-founder and CEO, emphasized that CISOs face significant pressure to enable AI-driven productivity while managing risks that organizations cannot ignore. Lumia provides a framework that supports broad AI adoption with built-in, unobtrusive controls to ensure secure and responsible use. Francis Odum, founder and CEO of SACR, noted that Lumia differentiates itself from standard SASE platforms through deeper AI-focused inspection and faster coverage of emerging AI modalities and native applications, enabled by automated protocol analysis.