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Glow, the endpoint AI company led by Roi Tiger, Omer Singer, Ophir Arie, and the team, has announced its launch with $180M in funding, led by Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Index Ventures, Swish Ventures, Holly Ventures, Operator Collective, and Lux Capital. Traditional endpoint security has long forced organizations to choose between reacting after threats emerge or restricting business operations to reduce risk. As AI

Neo, building real-time protection for the agentic enterprise, led by Nicholas Warner, Shlomi Salem, and Eran Shirazi, has emerged from stealth with $100M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures. Neo was founded by former executives and engineers from SentinelOne, Wiz and Palo Alto Networks. The company's platform provides security operations (SecOps) teams with inventory management, posture

Dawnguard, building the next-gen platform that makes security easy from day one, led by Mahdi Abdulrazak, Kim van Lavieren, Sarah van Lavieren, and David van der Hoeven, has announced the public launch of its security architecture automation platform, making it available to organizations looking to design, build, and operate secure cloud-native systems from day zero through production. Dawnguard announced the opening of its New York City office and an additional $3.3 million

NeuralTrust, the platform for AI & agent security, led by Joan Vendrell and Victor García, has announced a $20 million seed round led by Alstin Capital, with participation from VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, EA Ventures Plug and Play Fund, and Finaves, the venture capital fund of IESE Business School. NeuralTrust is also backed by public funding from the European Innovation Council and Spain's State Research Agency (AEI). The round will fund engineering,

Ent, the intent-aware security platform powering the AI-native enterprise, extending endpoint security into a real-time layer of prevention across human and AI-driven work, Elias(Lou)Manousos and Brandon Dixon, has emerged from stealth with $100 million in seed financing led by Decibel, with participation from Sequoia, Crosspoint Capital Partners, Craft Ventures, Shield Capital, Felicis, and In-Q-Tel (IQT). Preventing Cyber Threats Before They Become Incidents. Ent is pioneer

NewCore, the security-first identity platform built for humans and AI agents, led by Zohar Alon, Amihai Neiderman, and Erez Yarkoni, has emerged from stealth and has raised $66 million from Cyberstarts, Index Ventures, and Evolution Equity Partners. It is led by a founding team of cybersecurity and enterprise-IT veterans whose prior exits include Check Point's acquisition of Dome9. Identity has emerged as the primary attack surface within modern enterprises. Many of the large

Cyera, the AI security platform, led by Yotam Segev, Tamar Bar-Ilan, Yonatan Itai, and the team, has announced its Series G: $600 million at a $12 billion valuation, led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from Cyberstarts and Temasek, in addition to all existing investors, including Accel, AT&T Ventures, Blackstone, Coatue, Spark Capital, among others. Building The Trust Layer For AI. Cyera was founded to help enterprises understand what sensitive data they hav