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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

Verkada , an American leader in cloud-based physical security, led by Filip Kaliszan, Hans Robertson, James Ren, and Benjamin Bercovitz, has secured  an investment from Alphabet's independent growth fund, CapitalG ,  valuing the company at $5.8 billion, a $1.3 billion increase from Series E earlier this year. More than 2 million devices from Verkada are now deployed across 171 countries, unifying video security, access control, sensors, intercoms, and alarms on a single platf

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 applica

Saporo , helping security teams reduce attack paths, enforce least privilege, and prevent breaches, led by Olivier Eyries, Guillaume Eyries, and Dr. Eric Blavier, has secured €7 million in Series A funding led by  TIN Capital , with participation from  G+D Ventures ,  CDP  Venture Capital through its Corporate Partners I – ServiceTech fund,  XAnge ,  Lightbird VC , and  Session VC . Each investor will play a targeted role in Saporo’s expansion: TIN Capital in Northern Europe,

Raindrop , Sentry for AI Agents, led by Zubin Singh Koticha , Alexis Gauba , and Ben Hylak , has secured  $15M in seed funding from Lightspeed  and leading AI companies, including Figma Ventures, Vercel Ventures , founders of Replit (Amjad Masad and Michele Catasta), Cognition (Walden Yan), Framer (Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk), Speak (Andrew Hsu), Notion (Akshay Kothari), and YC . Over the past two years, the landscape has shifted from simple chatbots to agent systems capable

Doppel , defending your brand and people from social engineering attacks, led by Kevin Tian , Rahul Madduluri, Mike Ferrari, Bobby Ford, and others, has secured $70M Series C, led by returning investors Bessemer Venture Partners  alongside Andreessen Horowitz , South Park Commons , Script Capital , 9Yards Capital , Sozo Ventures , and Strategic Cyber Ventures . In addition, new investors include George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Aurum Partners, the invest

Guardio , protecting your entire digital world by securing every account and interaction, led by Amos Peled, Michael Vainshtein, Daniel Sirota, Meital Baruch, Sharon Cohen, and others, has raised  $80 million in a funding   round led by ION Crossover Partners , with participation from existing investors, including Union Tech Ventures , Vintage Investment Partners , and Emerge . The funding follows Guardio’s recent partnership with Lovable , the fast-growing AI software compan

Truffle Security , the company behind TruffleHog™, a leading open-source security project that makes it easier to identify and fix exposed secrets before hackers exploit them, led by Dylan Ayrey and Dustin Decker, has secured  a $25 million Series B funding round led by Intel Capital  and a16z . The round also includes participation from Abstract , Lytical Ventures , and prominent security leaders Casey Ellis (Founder, BugCrowd), Emilio Escobar (CISO, Datadog), and Haroon Mee

Acoru , a Madrid-based AI-powered platform to monitor financial fraud and money laundering, led by Pablo de la Riva Ferrezuelo and David Morán, has secured  a €10 million Series A round led by  33N  Ventures with participation from  Adara Ventures  and Athos Capital  also joined the round. Generative AI-driven scams, like deepfakes, voice cloning, and social engineering, are driving global fraud losses of nearly $500 billion annually. Current solutions focus on transactions,

Keycard , building identity infrastructure for AI agents, led by Matt Creager, Jared Hanson, and Ian Livingstone, has secured  a $38 million combined inception round led by  Andreessen Horowitz , Acrew Capital , and  Boldstart Ventures  with participation from Mantis VC ,  Tapestry Ventures ,  Essence Ventures ,  Exceptional Capital , Modern Technical Fund ,  Vermillion Cliffs Ventures , and many incredible angels. A new era of computing is emerging, where software evolves in

Ploy , an AI Native identity, governance, and security platform, led by Harry Lucas and Jacob Prime, has raised  £2.5 million led by Osney Capital , with participation from Superseed , Tiny.vc  and Rule30 , alongside notable angels including Johnathan Scudder (co-founder of ForgeRock), Alastair Paterson and James Chappell (co-founders of Digital Shadows), Mark Ryan (VP of Product Management at ZScaler), Jonathan Tom (VP of GTM Enablement at Rapid7), Tony Pepper and Neil Larki

CybaVerse , transforming security for SMEs and MSPs, led by Oliver Spence, Gemma Blake, Juliette Hudson, Simon Phillips, and others, has secured   £5 million in investment co-led by Pembroke VCT  and Airbridge Equity Partners , with participation from Haatch .  Founded in 2018, the company has grown from a boutique consultancy into a leading UK cybersecurity vendor with nearly 40 employees and a rapidly growing customer base. The funding will accelerate sales and marketing, e

Resistant AI , a cutting-edge AI platform to outsmart criminals, led by Jan Stiborek, Jan Jusko, Tomáš Laube, Martin Rehak, Karel Bartoš, Josef Stach, Martin Grill, Martin Vejman, and Lukáš Machlica, has secured  a $25 million Series B funding round led by DTCP , with strong participation from existing investors including Experian , GV , and Notion Capita l, who are doubling down on their investment. The company, which reached breakeven in September, will use the capital to s

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Feedzai , a fintech company on a mission to make the world a safer place for commerce, one transaction at a time, led by Nuno Sebastião,...

Oneleet , a YC-backed company that delivers both compliance and security, led by Bryan Onel and Ora Onel, has secured $33 million in...

Revel8 , a Berlin-based cybersecurity startup training employees with realistic attack simulations of the latest AI cyber threats, led by...

1) CrowdStrike: Led by George Kurtz, Jennifer Johnson, Burt Podbere, Michael Sentonas, Shawn Henry, and others, CrowdStrike is the...

Irregular , the first frontier security lab with the mission of protecting the world in the time of increasingly capable and...

Red Access , the first agentless platform to secure all browsing activities of corporate employees on any browser, web app, and cloud...

TrustNXT, a computer vision and cybersecurity start-up, a spin-off of leading image processing specialist Basler AG , led by Sebastian...

Vouched , an identity verification platform for Physical, Mobile, and Software Agent IDs, led by Peter Horadan, John Baird, Marita...

Sola Security , an AI-powered cybersecurity assistant, led by Guy Flechter, Leon Goldberg, Ron Peled, Osnat Yarimi Magen, Adi Meiri,...

Seemplicity , the exposure action platform that delivers faster fixes and stronger security, led by Yoran Sirkis(CEO), Ravid Circus(CPO),...

Phoebe , the immune system for software, led by Matt Henderson and James Summerfield, has raised  $17 million in seed funding led by GV...

Dawnguard , an AI-powered cloud architecture for rapid and secure design validation, led by Kim van Lavieren(Co-Founder and CTO), Mahdi...

Promptfoo , a full-stack AI Security Platform, led by Ian Webster(CEO & Co-Founder), Michael D'Angelo(CTO & Co-Founder), and others,...

Led by Gianni Cuozzo (CEO and Founder), Gerardo Gagliardo (CFO and Co-Founder), Giovanni Alberto Falcione (CTO and Co-Founder), Gary...

Founded by self-taught programmer Bereket Engida, Better Auth  has raised $5 Million led by Peak XV  Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital...

Founded by Product And Engineering Leaders Harry Wetherald(CEO), Adrian Jozwik(CPO), and Santiago Castineira(CTO), Cloud Security Startup...

Co-founded by Rajaram Srinivasan(CEO) & Vignesh Subbiah(CTO), Generative AI Security Platform Unbound has raised a $4 Million Seed Round...

Led by Andrew Wailes(Founder & CEO), Ben Dixon(CTO & Co-Founder), Bryce Turner(Marketing Director), Andrei Carpen(Founding Designer),...

Sam Altman's World.Org partners with Match Group to bring Id verification services to Tinder users in Japan and a separate partnership...

Started by Sam Altman, Max Novendstern, & Alex Blania, World.Org , The Real Human Network recently launched a mobile verification device...

Led by Joe Jones(CEO), Pistachioapp, a platform that enables employees to learn about cybersecurity threats in real time through...

Palo Alto Networks recently announced their plan to Acquire AI Security Company Protect AI to enhance their Prisma AIRS AI security...

After a legal complaint filed by M Moser Design Associates, when their employees received email with some obscene & vulgar content and...