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06/12/2026

Pi raises $35M to scale security as fast as code

ynet reports that Pi, an artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup founded by former security leaders from Microsoft and Tesla, said it has raised $35 million in funding to expand a platform designed to automate software security and vulnerability remediation. The funding round was led by Brightmind Partners and Third Point Ventures, with participation from CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz and Armis co-founders Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael. As companies increasingly depend on agentic AI for coding, Pi ensures agents understand how the company builds - and breaks - its own software, so everything they ship stays secure. Some of the most advanced global companies are already using Pi, including one of the world's leading AI labs, cybersecurity companies, a major social network, and leaders in travel and insurance. Press Release

Source: ACCESS Newswire

06/11/2026

Israeli startup Aryon Security raises $25M

Israeli startup Aryon Security, which last year unveiled its innovative cloud security solution, has completed a $25 million Series A financing round, which brings the total amount raised by the company since it was founded in late 2024 to $38 million. The round was led by US fund Brightmind and Shlomo Kramer’s Skinos Ventures, also with the participation of software company Datadog, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, Sharin Fisher Dibrov’s Startpoint Capital, and Armis founder Yevgeny Dibrov, Blumberg Capital and Viola Ventures, which led the seed round and have increased their investment by also doubling down in the current round, while this time they have been joined by other investors from a range of backgrounds including the well-known actor and comedian Assi Cohen. Full Story

Source: GLOBES

06/10/2026

UK Cybersecurity startup Strand Intelligence raises £1m

Strand Intelligence, a Manchester, UK-based cybersecurity software company, has closed a £1m seed round. The round was led by Osney Capital and will be used to accelerate the startup’s hiring and product development plans. Founded in 2025, Strand is building automation for Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), the investigative work that follows a security incident. Its platform automates investigations across cloud and endpoint environments and claims to deliver investigations up to five times faster. Adam Cragg, a partner at Osney Capital, said: “Strand's platform is a force multiplier that allows a team to investigate complex technical estates, advanced threats and critical incidents – both strengthening security posture and ensuring that, on a business’s worst day, they are ready to respond and recover." Full Story

Source: BusinessCloud

06/08/2026

Seattle startup Emphere raises $2.1M in pre-seed funding

Emphere announced $2.1 million in pre-seed funding from AI2 Incubator and Outsiders Fund to automate the work of fixing software security flaws. It focuses on open-source distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, and Alpine, automatically patching known vulnerabilities for software companies that sell to banks and other regulated industries. The company says it has early revenue and a handful of signed customers, though it declined to name them. Emphere has a team of five, including two security researchers whose job is to play the role of hackers — attacking its patched images and confirming the fixes are good. Emphere is entering a crowded market, though most security firms focus on finding vulnerabilities rather than fixing them. Full Story

Source: GeekWire

06/08/2026

New Delhi, India-Based Innefu Labs Raises $30M

AI-powered cybersecurity startup Innefu Labs has raised $30 million (about ₹285.2 Cr) in its Series B funding round led by Singapore-based growth equity firm Panthera Growth Partners. The funding, which included a mix of primary and secondary transactions, comes as the startup prepares for an initial public offering (IPO) and looks to expand its presence in international markets following its recent expansion into the Middle East. Founded in 2010, New Delhi, India-based Innefu provides cybersecurity software for defence, intelligence, law enforcement, revenue intelligence and enterprise customers. The startup said the fresh capital will be used to accelerate global expansion, strengthen R&D, and build sovereign AI capabilities. Full Story

Source: Inc 42

06/08/2026

A Security $32M completes $32M follow-on round

A Security, an Israeli startup developing a platform to defend organizations against AI-powered cyberattacks, has raised a total of $37 million across two funding rounds. The company initially secured a $5 million Seed round led by Cyberstarts. Five months later, it completed a $32 million follow-on round led by Cyberstarts and Lightspeed plus prominent angel investors. A Security is developing a platform designed to help organizations defend themselves against what it calls "Weaponized AI," cyberattacks conducted by autonomous AI agents. The company, founded in 2025, The company says traditional security approaches, which often rely on periodic testing and manual assessments, are no longer sufficient in an era of AI-powered attacks. Full Story

Source: CTech

06/06/2026

Opal Security Raises $23M in New Funding

Opal Security, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI-native access governance platform for every identity, raised $23 million in new funding. The round was led by Greylock and Battery Ventures, with participation from Cambium Capital. The raise brought the total amount to $59 million. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts. Opal is a provider of an AI-native access platform that gives security teams real-time visibility, expressive policy-as-code, and direct control over every identity, bringing agents into the same access graph, reviews, ownership, and policy-as-code. Full Story

Source: FINSMES

06/05/2026

Offroad emerges from stealth with $7M

Cybersecurity company Offroad emerged from stealth alongside a $7 million Seed round led by Ibex Investors and Skywell Capital. The company develops an identity security platform for modern organizations. Offroad was founded in 2025 by CEO Dan Bendler, who previously founded two AI startups that collectively raised more than $45 million, and CTO Philip Shteyn, a former Unit 8200 Captain who also helped build Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex platform. The company is based in New York and Tel Aviv. Offroad is building an agentic identity security team for enterprises. The company’s agents gather context across fragmented systems, uncover both real-time identity threats and underlying posture risks, and autonomously resolve them. Full Story

Source: CTech

06/05/2026

Willow Raises $7M Seed Round

Willow, a pioneering identity and access platform for enterprise AI agents has emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding to enable enterprises to safely adopt AI agents across the workplace without impeding innovation. The company enables organizations to securely connect AI agents to internal systems with runtime permissions, centralized controls, auditability, and full attribution of agent activity. The round was led by Hetz Ventures, following early angel investment from Wix Co-Founder and CEO Avishai Abrahami and President Nir Zohar, who backed Willow at its earliest stage. The funding will be used to enhance the next phase of Willow's go-to-market while accelerating product development. Willow is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel. Press Release

Source: PR Newswire

06/04/2026

Coralogix raises $200M on bet that someone needs to watch the AI agents

Coralogix, a Boston-based startup founded in Israel, has raised $200 million in a new funding round, betting that the rise of AI agents will drive demand for a new generation of tools to monitor, troubleshoot, and manage increasingly autonomous software systems. The Series F financing comes just 11 months after Coralogix raised $115 million in a Series E round. The platform is used by more than 5,000 customers worldwide, including IBM, Tradeweb, and JFrog, to detect outages, investigate incidents, and optimize applications. The observability industry, where Coralogix competes with the likes of Datadog, New Relic, and Splunk, is being reshaped by the rise of AI. Vendors are increasingly embedding AI into monitoring and incident-response workflows as enterprises deploy more AI-powered applications and agents. Full Story

Source: TechCrunch

06/03/2026

Cyera raises another $300M at $12B valuation

AI and data security company Cyera has raised $300 million at a valuation of $12 billion. The fundraising brings Cyera’s total capital raised to more than $2 billion. The latest round was led by Evolution Equity Partners, one of the most prominent investors in Israeli cybersecurity, with prior investments including Island, Torq, and Armis, which was sold to ServiceNow. Additional investors in the round include Georgian, Greenoaks, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Cyberstarts, Coatue, Accel, and Spark Capital. In January, Cyera raised $400 million at a $9 billion valuation after being valued at $6 billion in 2025 and $3 billion in 2024. Full Story

Source: CTech

06/03/2026

ZeroDrift raises $10M to protect AI models from themselves

As enterprises troubleshoot their AI systems, governance has emerged as a key challenge. Some are taking a dual approach: one model to handle incoming queries, and another to keep the first one from getting into trouble. That’s the premise of ZeroDrift, a new AI compliance service that on Tuesday said it had raised $10 million in a seed funding round that saw investments from a16z Speedrun, Reign Ventures, Pitchdrive, and U&I Ventures, among others. The company deals entirely with the second part of the system, sitting between AI models and end users to flag and replace any messages that might present a compliance problem. Full Story

Source: TechCrunch

05/29/2026

Corgi announces $106M raise at $2.6B valuation

Insurance tech company Corgi announced a $106 million Series B1 raise, valuing the company at $2.6 billion, just three weeks after announcing a $160 million Series B at a $1.3 billion valuation and four months after its $108 million Series A. The company offers insurance, working specifically with startups in areas like tech, cyber, and general liability; it counts Deel and Artisan among its customers. Corgi's cyber liability insurance covers network security and privacy claims. Corgi has now raised $378 million in total funding from its investors. The latest raise is led by TCV with participation from Prime Capital, Zone 2 Ventures, Oliver Jung, Leblon Capital, Kindred Ventures, Quadri Ventures, First Order Fund, Vocal Ventures, Nordstar, GSBackers, Repeat Ventures, 8188 Capital, and other strategic investors. Full Story

Source: TechCrunch

05/29/2026

French cybersecurity startup MokN raises $15M to combat credential theft

MokN, a French cybersecurity startup specialising in protection against credential theft, has raised €12.9 million ($15 million) in Series A funding to build its platform, grow in France and the U.S., and begin its expansion into the U.K.. The round was led by Google Ventures, with participation from DataDog, MokN’s existing European investors Moonfire and OVNI Capital, and angels. In Oct. 2025, the company raised €2.6 million in Seed funding led by Moonfire. With the fresh funding, the company plans to significantly increase its R&D investments to build a comprehensive platform specialising in identity theft protection. MokN reports that it protects over 1 million users across large corporations including the Fortune 500, and mid-size companies. Full Story

Source: EU-Startups

05/28/2026

Geordie Raises $30M to Help Enterprises Securely Adopt Agentic AI at Scale

Geordie AI, the purpose-built security and governance platform for AI agents, announced it has closed a $30 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital. The round included participation from Crosspoint Capital, as well as follow-on investment from existing investors General Catalyst and Ten Eleven Ventures, bringing total funding to $36.5 million. The capital will be used to further enhance the product's capabilities for security and AI teams partnering with Geordie as they grapple with the emerging adoption and risk AI agents pose for the enterprise. To support this, Geordie will expand engineering and go-to-market teams, with a focus on expanding its US operations. Press Release

Source: EIN Presswire

05/27/2026

RevEng.AI raises $15M to verify the security and integrity of AI-generated software

RevEng.AI, a cybersecurity company building the binary-native verification layer for the software supply chain, announced it has raised a $15 million Series A round led by NATO Innovation Fund with participation from Sands Capital, In-Q-Tel (IQT), IQ Capital, and Episode One. RevEng.AI helps organizations analyze compiled software at the binary level to determine what is actually inside executables, firmware, and third-party software without requiring access to source code. While Anthropic’s Mythos has drawn significant attention to frontier AI for cybersecurity and autonomous vulnerability discovery, RevEng’s foundational AI model named BinNet translates these advances into practical application by working directly on released software binaries to find novel cyber threats in real-world environments. Press Release

Source: GlobeNewswire

05/27/2026

Lastwall Raises $16M to Bring U.S.-Proven Cyber Defense Platform Home to Protect Canada's Critical Infrastructure

Lastwall, a leader in identity-first security and quantum-resilient solutions, announced a $16 million investment round led by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) through BDC Capital's StrongNorth Fund. The investment positions Lastwall at the forefront of Canada's growing effort to strengthen sovereign cyber defense capabilities amid escalating threats targeting critical infrastructure, defense systems, and government networks. The investment round includes participation from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF), Frostbite Capital, and existing investors Blue Bear Capital, BlueWing Ventures, and 18West. Trusted by the U.S. Department of War and the Government of Canada, Lastwall has spent nearly a decade securing some of the world's most sensitive government environments. Press Release

Source: Yahoo! Finance

05/27/2026

CodeIntegrity raises $5M to put permanent guardrails on unpredictable AI agents

The computer security startup CodeIntegrity announced a $5 million seed round to support its efforts to build meaningful protections for agentic AI applications. The San Francisco-based company made a splash last year when it demonstrated how easy it was to trick AI models from multiple tech companies into sharing private information. Cybersecurity-focused Syn Ventures led the new round, with participation from existing pre-seed investors Antler and Boost VC. CodeIntegrity’s product is currently being piloted with companies in regulated industries, with a broader public rollout planned for the future. The company still has employees in Washington state, while the two co-founders recently relocated to the Bay Area. Full Story

Source: GeekWire

05/21/2026

Socket $60M, hit a $1B valuation

Socket has raised $60 million in a Series C round led by Thrive Capital, pushing the San Francisco-based company to a $1 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Abstract Ventures, both existing backers, participated alongside new investor Capital One Ventures, bringing Socket’s total funding to $125 million. The raise reflects a growing anxiety inside enterprise security teams. As AI coding assistants accelerate software development, the volume of open-source dependencies entering production systems is growing faster than anyone can manually review. More than 90 percent of modern applications rely on open-source code and attackers have noticed. Socket, founded in 2020, has a customer list ihat includes Anthropic, xAI, Replit, Cursor, Figma, Vercel, Gusto, Mercado Libre and Cribl, alongside unnamed Fortune 100 firms in finance and media. Full Story

Source: Tech Funding News

05/20/2026

Infrawatch secures $3M pre-seed for internet infrastructure intelligence

London-based cybersecurity startup Infrawatch has raised $3 million in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Outward VC and Triple Point Ventures, with participation from Portfolio Ventures and a group of fintech and cybersecurity angel investors. Founded by Lloyd Davies and built by a team of former employees from CrowdStrike, Recorded Future and Intel 471, Infrawatch is developing what it describes as an Internet Infrastructure Intelligence Layer for cybersecurity, fraud prevention and online investigations. The company’s platform is designed to help organisations identify and monitor the infrastructure underpinning cyberattacks, phishing campaigns, scams and online abuse. Full Story

Source: Tech.eu

05/20/2026

Quantum Bridge secures $8M to protect against quantum security risks

Toronto, Canada-based Quantum Bridge Technologies has closed a $8 million USD Series A funding round led by Primo Capital SGR to accelerate the global transition to quantum-safe cybersecurity infrastructure. The investment supports the company’s scale-up as financial institutions, telecommunications networks, governments, and defense sectors worldwide seek to protect critical data from emerging quantum threats. The funding round was supported by a global syndicate of investors, including Wayra (Telefónica), Cadenza VC, Club degli Investitori angels, HPE, and Bacchus Venture Capital. Together with prior financing from investors including Alumni Ventures and the University of Toronto, the round brings Quantum Bridge’s total capital raised to $16 million. Press Release

Source: Quantum Insider

05/19/2026

CRACI raises €1.4M for EU cybersecurity compliance platform

Finnish cybersecurity startup CRACI has raised €1.4 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by Lifeline Ventures, with participation from First Fellow Partners and Wave Ventures. The funding will support product development and the expansion of the platform ahead of new European cybersecurity regulations coming into force in 2026. Founded in 2025, CRACI develops software supply chain security technology designed to help companies comply with the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The regulation will require products with digital elements sold in the EU to meet stricter cybersecurity, documentation and lifecycle management standards, affecting hundreds of thousands of companies globally. Full Story

Source: Tech.eu

05/19/2026

Ocean Raises $28M as Enterprises Confront a New Wave of AI-Powered Email Attacks

Ocean, the first Agentic Email Security platform, announced its launch from stealth with $28 million in total funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Picture Capital and Cerca Partners and several angel investors. Ocean is introducing the first AI-native email security platform built on autonomous investigation, already protecting hundreds of thousands of mailboxes while replacing legacy detection-based tools that can no longer stop modern, sophisticated AI-powered attacks. Ocean has scanned over one billion emails within its first year, now processes more than one billion emails every month, and protects more than hundreds of thousands of employee mailboxes globally. Press Release

Source: GlobeNewswire

05/13/2026

Grip Security Raising $41M Series B Funding

Grip Security, a leader in SaaS identity risk management, announced it is raising $41 million in Series B funding led by Third Point Ventures, with participation from YL Ventures, Intel Capital and The Syndicate Group. The investment would bring Grip Security’s total funding to $66 million and marks a major milestone for the company, further accelerating its go-to-market strategy and advancing product development. In today’s rapidly transforming IT landscape, managing SaaS identity risks holistically has become a pressing need for chief information security officers (CISOs) and Grip Security is uniquely positioned to address this critical challenge with its groundbreaking platform. Press Release

Source: Businesswire

05/13/2026

White Circle raises $11M to help companies secure and monitor AI model behavior

Artificial intelligence guardrail and monitoring startup Pumpkin Intelligence Inc., which operates as White Circle, announced it raised $11 million in seed funding from a who’s who of AI leadership after its founder and CEO showed it was possible to break most models with a single prompt. Denis Shilov went viral in 2024 after he was able to jailbreak numerous proprietary AI models on the market with a single prompt. His display showed that he could bypass safety measures on models and unlock instructions for making drugs and weapons, access dangerous or illegal information and extract sensitive information such as ChatGPT’s system prompt. He built White Circle to capitalize on the need for superior guardrails that protect AI models from prompt injection and jailbreaks. Full Story

Source: siliconANGLE

05/13/2026

Hacktron Raises $2.9M Pre-Seed to Bring AI-Powered Security Testing to Every Code Change

Hacktron, a cybersecurity startup founded by elite competitive hackers Zayne Zhang, Mohan Pedhapati, and Harsh Jaiswal, announced it has raised $2.9 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Crane Venture Partners, with participation from Project Europe, Vercel Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, supported by a network of strategic partners and angel investors. Hacktron is building an AI-powered platform that continuously tests software for vulnerabilities at the pace of modern development: running deep security checks on every code change rather than relying on periodic, manual penetration tests. Press Release

Source: GlobeNewswire

05/12/2026

Prikus Raises $2.5M to Build Next-Generation Security Platform

At a time when cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated and businesses are increasingly investing in digital security, Hyderabad, India-based cybersecurity startup Prikus has secured $2.5 million USD in strategic funding from a group of private angel investors. The funding marks a significant milestone for Prikus, which is now preparing to scale aggressively with a strong focus on product innovation, cybersecurity research, and enterprise security technologies. The fresh capital will primarily be deployed towards engineering expansion, product development, cybersecurity research infrastructure, cloud environments, and building a strong technical team. Full Story

Source: Tribune India

05/12/2026

Lyrie Completes $2M Pre-Seed Round

Lyrie.ai, the autonomous cybersecurity platform developed by OTT Cybersecurity LLC, has completed a $2 million pre-seed funding round and officially exited stealth. The raise will support continued platform development, security research team expansion, and the operationalization of the Agent Trust Protocol across Lyrie’s platform and partner ecosystem. The company is headquartered in Dubai, UAE, and is already preparing a Series A round to scale deployment across enterprise and government markets. Alongside the funding announcement, Lyrie is releasing the Agent Trust Protocol, an open cryptographic standard for AI agent identity, scope, attestation, delegation and revocation. Full Story

Source: Pulse 2.0

05/12/2026

Exaforce raises $125M Series B to build AI for catching and stopping cyberattacks as they happen

As bad actors weaponize AI to exploit software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, companies are increasingly recognizing the need to bolster their cybersecurity defenses. Fortunately, those very AI tools are also helping businesses fight back. The need for such capabilities has helped Exaforce, an AI startup that detects and thwarts attacks in real time, secure a $125 million Series B. The round valued the three-year-old startup at $725 million and saw participation from HarbourVest, Peak XV, Mayfield, Khosla Ventures, and Seligman Ventures. The massive funding round comes just a year after Exaforce raised a $75 million Series A, bringing its total funding to $200 million. Full Story

Source: TechCrunch

05/11/2026

Frame Raises $50M to Tackle AI-Driven Employee Security Threats

Cybersecurity startup Frame has secured $50 million in funding to enhance its focus on AI-driven employee security risks. The funding round was led by Index Ventures, Team8, and Picture Capital, with contributions from notable figures such as Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport and investor Elad Gil. Frame's innovative approach, termed "Human Risk Security," targets the human element in cybersecurity by simulating realistic attack scenarios tailored to employees' work behaviors, including voice-cloned calls and forged videos. The company, which operates out of New York and Tel Aviv, aims to address the increasing sophistication of phishing and deepfake threats as AI technology advances. Full Story

Source: Phemex

05/08/2026

Boost Security Raises $4M in Additional Funding

Boost Security, a Montreal, Canada-based provider of an AI-native SDLC defense platform, raised $4M in additional funding. Backers included White Star Capital, Amiral Ventures, Accelia Capital, and Sorensen Capital. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.Boost Security is a provider of an application security posture management (ASPM) and software supply chain platform designed to help engineering teams secure their code and development pipelines without slowing down their delivery speed. It essentially acts as a security control plane that connects a company’s various security tools and development workflows. Full Story

Source: FINSMES

05/06/2026

Herd Security Raises $3M

Herd Security, an agentic AI creative platform built for continuous security training and simulation, announced a $3 million funding round with strategic investment from Aspiron Ventures alongside participation from Team Ignite, ForwardSlash VC, Forum Ventures, Rightside Capital, and YPO. Designed for security and GRC teams, the platform enables practitioners to leverage AI as a creative partner, replacing static training programs that fail to engage employees with dynamic curricula built for the rise of AI-driven and increasingly advanced threats. The capital will expand product development across new training categories in HR and AI, optimize AI-powered video generation capabilities, and grow the company’s partnership ecosystem. Press Release

Source: GlobeNewswire

05/06/2026

XBOW Secures Additional $35M from Strategic Investors

XBOW, a leader in autonomous offensive security, announced $35 million in additional Series C financing from investors Accenture Ventures, DNX Ventures, Liberty Global Tech Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Samsung Ventures, and SentinelOne S Ventures. The raise extends its previously announced $120 million Series C round, and highlights a broader shift: major enterprises are not just adopting XBOW’s platform, but investing in it as they look to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven attacks. XBOW now serves more than 100 customers worldwide, including several strategic investors in this round, alongside industry leaders like Moderna and Seznam. Full Story

Source: Businesswire

05/01/2026

UK-based Arm spin-out Kigen secures €11.5 million

Kigen, a Cambridge-based startup specialising in eSIM and Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP) security technologies, has secured €11.5 million in funding from Salica Investments, a UK-based investment firm. The growth debt investment will support Kigen’s next phase of growth across the UK, EU, and US. Originally a spin-out from Arm, Kigen has operated independently since 2020 with offices in Cambridge, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Noida, India. The company enables businesses to expand their Internet of Things (IoT) deployments by integrating trust and security through SIM, eSIM, and iSIM technologies. Full Story

Source: EU-Startups

04/29/2026

General Analysis Raises $10M in Seed Funding to Secure Agentic AI

General Analysis, a company building security infrastructure for agentic AI, announced $10 million in seed funding led by Altos Ventures, with participation from 645 Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, and additional strategic investors and angels. The company was founded by former NVIDIA, Cohere, and DeepMind researchers and is working to close a widening security gap as companies race to put autonomous agents into production. General Analysis is already working with enterprise customers in support and finance whose products and workflows are used by hundreds of millions of users. Press Release

Source: Businesswire

04/27/2026

QuoIntelligence raises €7.3M Series A

Frankfurt, Germany-based threat intelligence company QuoIntelligence announced the close of a €7.3 million Series A financing round. QuoIntelligence is building the Unified Risk Intelligence standard for European mid-market organisations, delivering finished threat intelligence that arrives already analysed, already contextualized, and ready to act on, with no in-house team required to operate it. Founded in 2020, the company serves organisations across Europe in the finance, government, manufacturing, retail, and transportation sectors. Its analyst-first model combines Mercury, an AI-powered threat intelligence platform, with a team of European analysts who review, curate, and contextualize every intelligence output in the client’s language and sector. Full Story

Source: Tech.eu

04/27/2026

SCATR Raises $12.6M in Series A Funding

SCATR Corp., a Cleveland, Ohio-based company developing a cybersecurity platform purpose-built to protect data while it is in motion across untrusted networks, raised $12.6M Series A funding. The round was led by First In. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts. SCATR develops the Zero Trust Transit platform, which extends Zero Trust enforcement beyond access control to govern data while it is moving. The solution fragments, obfuscates, and simultaneously distributes traffic across multiple randomized paths, making it indistinguishable from normal internet activity and eliminating the metadata, traffic patterns, and behavioral signatures adversaries exploit for targeting, collection, and HNDL operations. Full Story

Source: FINSMES

04/23/2026

Deep Algorithms raises ₹16 cr in Pre-Series A round

Deep Algorithms, a cybersecurity and digital trust solutions company, has raised ₹16 crore in a Pre-Series round A led by Unicorn India Ventures. The round also saw participation from SB Investment (UAE), Mr Prakash Govindan (CEO, Gradiant, USA) and in Morphis India Chief Executive Officer Himanshu Singhal. The company previously raised ₹10.8 crore from Unicorn India Ventures. “We will use the proceeds to expand operations abroad, accelerate product development and strengthen the platform with features to address evolving identity and AI-driven security needs,” JP Mishra, Founder and CEO of Deep Algorithms, has said. Full Story

Source: The Hindu BusinessLine

04/23/2026

Spectrum Emerges from Stealth with $19M to Reinvent Detection for the AI Era

Spectrum Security launched from stealth to solve the most critical and most neglected problem in modern security operations: ensuring organizations can actually detect the threats targeting them, as AI pushes the threat landscape beyond what already strained manual processes can keep up with. The company has raised $19M in seed funding led by TechOperators, with participation from WhiteRabbit Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Alumni Ventures, alongside prominent cybersecurity operators and investors. The funding will accelerate Spectrum’s engineering and go-to-market efforts to meet enterprise demand. Press Release

Source: ACCESS Newswire

04/23/2026

Rilian Secures $17.5M to Advance Agentic AI for Cyber and Defense Operations

Rilian, a provider of AI-native cybersecurity and defense systems integration capabilities, announced that it has raised $17.5 million in seed and seed extension funding. The round was led by 8VC, First In, and Tamarack Global, with participation from 8090 Industries, Liquid 2 Ventures, Perot Jain, and Protego Ventures. The round will fuel Rilian’s expansion across the U.S., Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and other Allied nations, including go-to-market efforts, engineering talent acquisition, and research and development in agentic AI-powered cyber and defense technology solutions for commercial markets and nation‑scale environments. Press Release

Source: Businesswire

04/23/2026

Cloudsmith lands $72M from Insight Partners to secure AI-generated software

As companies race to deploy AI coding tools, software is being created faster than ever. But speed has brought a new problem, which is more code, more dependencies and a wider attack surface across the software lifecycle. This shift has helped Belfast-based Cloudsmith secure a $72 million Series C round, one of the largest funding deals in Northern Ireland’s history. The investment was led by TCV, with participation from Insight Partners and other existing backers. In 2021, Cloudsmith raised a $15 million Series A round. Since then, the company has expanded rapidly, winning customers among Fortune 500 and Global 2000 businesses. Full Story

Source: Tech Funding News

04/23/2026

Copperhelm Emerges from Stealth with $7M Seed Funding

Copperhelm, a new cybersecurity company pioneering agentic cloud security, announced its launch from stealth alongside $7 million in seed funding led by TLV Partners, with participation from toDay Ventures, ICON, and SaaS Ventures Israel. Notable Angel investors include Kfir Tishbi, Or Hiltch, Guy Zipori and Ephraim Yarmak. Already working with paying customers, including Fortune 500 enterprises, the company introduces a new model for cloud defense where AI agents replace manual workflows by continuously monitoring cloud environments, investigating threats, and executing real-time remediation, while keeping security teams in control. Press Release

Source: PR Newswire

04/15/2026

Capsule Security launches with $7M to secure AI agents at runtime

Israeli agentic artificial intelligence security startup Capsule Security launched with $7 million in new funding to expand go-to-market efforts and accelerate product development across its runtime platform. The company was founded in 2025. It monitors AI agent actions in real time and enforces guardrails on behavior before those actions complete. The company targets what it describes as the runtime gap: the window between when an AI agent receives a prompt and when it executes an action, during which it can be manipulated, misbehave or silently exfiltrate data. The seed funding round was led by Lama Partners, with Forgepoint Capital International Management Ltd. also participating. Full Story

Source: siliconANGLE

04/15/2026

Cybersecurity startup Artemis raises $70M

U.S.-based cybersecurity startup Artemis, founded by Israeli entrepreneurs, has raised $70 million in Seed and Series A funding just six months after its launch. Of that total, $15 million was raised in the Seed round. The Series A was led by Felicis with First Round Capital and Brightmind returning to increase their stakes. The round was also joined by Theory VC, Two Sigma, Lockstep and prominent cybersecurity industry leaders, including the founders of Demisto and Abnormal AI, the former CEO and CTO of Splunk, and senior executives from CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, and Okta. Artemis is positioning itself as part of a new generation of tools designed for what it describes as an “AI versus AI” security landscape. Full Story

Source: CTech

04/08/2026

Trent AI Raises $13M to Secure the Agentic Age

London-based Trent AI, an agentic security company, announced its emergence from stealth with a layered security solution built for the agentic era. Following a $13M seed round led by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital, with participation from leaders at OpenAI, Spotify, Databricks, AWS and others, the product is the first multi-agent security solution designed to secure agents as they evolve. Led by strong conviction that security should be continuous, invisible and scalable, Trent AI’s leadership team brings deep experience from Spotify, AWS, Alcion (acquired by Veeam) and Confluent. Press Release

Source: Businesswire

04/02/2026

Variance Raises $21.5M Series A to Transform Risk Workflows with AI Agents

Variance, building AI investigative agents for risk and compliance, announced a $21.5 million Series A funding round to expand its agentic AI platform for financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies. The round was led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from 645 Ventures, Y Combinator, Urban Innovation Fund, and Okta Ventures. Variance has raised $26M to date and will use this fresh round of capital to deepen their investment in the infrastructure required for investigative AI agents, and expand their work with financial institutions. Variance is trusted by large Fortune 500 companies, and financial technology companies. Press Release

Source: Businesswire

04/02/2026

Alcatraz Raises $50M in Series B Funding

Alcatraz, a Cupertino, Calif.-based provider of an AI-powered physical access control system, raised $50 million in Series B funding. The round was led by BlackPeak Capital, Cogito Capital, and Taiwania Capital, with participation from existing investors Almaz Capital, EBRD, Ray Stata, and others. The raise brought the total amount to $100M. Alcatraz is an AI-powered physical access control company developing the Rock, a solution that replaces badge-based and legacy biometric security with fully anonymized facial authentication. Customers include AI data centers, major U.S. airports, energy companies, NFL teams, major universities, and Fortune 100 companies. Full Story

Source: FINSMES

04/01/2026

Depthfirst raises $80M to expand AI-native security platform

Artificial intelligence-native security platform startup Depthfirst announced that it has raised $80 million in new funding to train additional security models across new domains, expand its AI research team and scale up enterprise adoption. Founded in 2024, depthfirst is taking on the issue of a rapidly changing threat landscape where software is developed faster than traditional security tools can keep up and where attackers are increasingly using AI to find and exploit weaknesses. The company aims to secure the world’s software by building tools that understand and protect code at the speed and scale of both development and attack. Full Story

Source: siliconANGLE

04/01/2026

Tenex Raises $250M as AI Security Spending Accelerates

Cybersecurity startup Tenex has raised $250 million in new funding at a valuation exceeding $1 billion. According to a Bloomberg report, the fundraise signaled continued investor demand for artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can defend against automated cyber threats. The Sarasota, Fla.-based company’s funding round was led by Crosspoint Capital, with participation from Shield Capital and DeepWork Capital. The raise comes amid a broader surge in enterprise spending on AI-driven security, as organizations confront a threat landscape where attackers are also deploying automation and machine learning to scale attacks. Full Story

Source: PYMNTS

03/31/2026

Test of Things raises €1.2M to automate cybersecurity testing of connected products

Test of Things, a Finnish startup, has raised a €1.2 million pre-Seed funding round for its automated compliance management and cybersecurity testing platform for connected products and services. The round was led by Vendep Capital and supported by a group of industry veterans, including Aapo Oksman, Zach Shelby, Neil Costigan, and ScanABC. Business Finland contributed to the funding. Founded in 2024, Test of Things aims to protect customers and society from cyber incidents by making Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity easy and automated. It provides an automated, cloud-based platform that automates cybersecurity testing of connected products and helps manufacturers meet global standards and regulations. Full Story

Source: EU-Startups

03/31/2026

Internet intel startup Censys lands $70M

Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Censys, which offers insights about critical internet-connected infrastructure, raised $70 million in new funding — including a $40 million Series D and a $30 million debt financing, CEO Zakir Durumeric tells Axios Pro exclusively. Censys maintains the authoritative map of global Internet infrastructure used by organizations worldwide to uncover risks faster, respond more effectively, and prevent breaches before they happen. Censys secured $75 million in funding in Oct. 2023. The company raised its $35 million Series B round in Jan. 2022, and its $15.5 million Series A round in Aug. 2020. Census raised its $2.6 million seed round in Nov. 2018. Full Story

Source: Axios

03/31/2026

Identity governance company Linx Security raises $50M

Israeli identity security and governance solutions company Linx Security announced the completion of a $50 million Series B financing round led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from Cyberstarts and Index Ventures. These latest funds bring Linx’s total funding to $83 million. Founded in 2023 by cybersecurity veterans Israel Duanis and Niv Goldenberg, the startup has 100 employees and has already signed multimillion-dollar contracts with banks, healthcare companies, and Fortune 500 firms, governing millions of identities globally. Full Story

Source: GLOBES

03/30/2026

Huskeys raises $8M Seed round

Israeli cybersecurity startup Huskeys has emerged from stealth with $8 million in Seed funding, targeting a long-standing weakness in web application security. Founded in 2025, the company focuses on web application firewalls (WAFs), a core security technology developed roughly 30 years ago that remains widely used but has changed little over time. Huskeys’ approach does not replace these systems. Instead, it adds an artificial intelligence layer designed to analyze, manage and optimize how they operate. Despite being less than a year old, the company says it has already secured dozens of customers, including large global organizations such as TikTok, Merlin Entertainments and Hugging Face. Full Story

Source: CTech

03/27/2026

Shield AI, a Start-Up Making Military Drones, Raises $2 Billion

Artificial intelligence, autonomous drones and other technologies have transformed battlefields in hot spots like Ukraine and Iran. A tech-driven arms race to develop the tools has put next-generation defense contractors in high demand. Among them is Shield AI, which plans to announce on Thursday that it has raised $2 billion, with some of the proceeds going toward buying Aechelon Technology, a smaller defense-tech start-up specializing in simulation software. The new capital will value Shield AI at about $12.7 billion, more than double the level it achieved in a fund-raising round a year ago. Gary Steele, Shield AI's CEO was previously the founding chief executive at cybersecurity company Proofpoint where he spent 20 years from 2002 to 2022. Full Story

Source: The New York Times

03/27/2026

Conntour raises $7M to build an AI search engine for security video systems

Miami, Fla.-based Conntour raised a $7 million seed round from General Catalyst, Y Combinator, SV Angel, and Liquid 2 Ventures. The company’s video platform uses AI models to let security personnel query camera feeds using natural language to find any object, person, or situation in the footage, in real time — a Google-like search engine made specifically for security video feeds. It can also monitor and detect threats on its own based on preset rules, and surface alerts automatically. Conntour claims its system can be deployed fully on premises, completely on the cloud, or a mix of both. It can plug into most security systems already in use, or can serve as a full surveillance platform on its own. Full Story

Source: TechCrunch

03/24/2026

Onit Security Raises $11M Seed to Reshape Exposure Management

Onit Security, the agentic exposure management company, has raised $11 million in seed funding led by Hetz Ventures and Brightmind Partners, with participation from prominent angel investors. Onit Security was founded by serial entrepreneurs with three prior acquisitions – SCADAfence (acquired by Honeywell), Portnox (sold to private equity), and For-Each (acquired by Autodesk) – and is currently working with Fortune 1000 customers reducing mean time to remediation by up to 87 percent. The new funding will accelerate product development and go-to-market as the company expands into additional sectors. Press Release

Source: PR Newswire

03/23/2026

Above Security Raises $50M to Solve Insider Risk in the Agentic Era

Above Security (Above), the AI-native agentic managed insider threat platform, emerged from stealth and announced $50 million in funding. The funding was led by Ballistic Ventures, Merlin Ventures, and Norwest, with participation from Jump Capital and QPV Ventures. Powered by a fleet of specialized AI investigators, Above analyzes human and AI behavior to surface real risk without rules, policies, or configuration.As one of 35 top companies selected for the 2026 Crowdstrike, AWS & NVIDIA Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, Above has established integrations with CrowdStrike, and others across identity, endpoint, and SaaS environments. The platform targets organizations with 1,000 or more employees operating in SaaS-forward environments. Press Release

Source: PR Newswire

03/20/2026

Cape Raises $100M Series C Funding

Cape, America’s leading privacy-first mobile carrier, announced it has raised a $100 million Series C co-led by Bain Capital Ventures and IVP, with participation from new investors, 01 Advisors, 137 Ventures, Definition, and Fifth Down Capital. Cape has built a carrier from the ground up to protect U.S. government agencies, businesses, and privacy-conscious individuals against cellular security threats. Cape has been adopted by U.S. national security professionals, enterprise executives, journalists, activists, and everyday people across the country who reject the privacy and security risks that come with using a traditional mobile carrier. Press Release

Source: Businesswire

03/20/2026

Allure Security Raises $17M Series B

Allure Security, the AI-native disinformation defense company, announced it has closed a $17 million Series B funding round led by Riverside Acceleration Capital, with participation from existing investors Curql, Glasswing Ventures, and Gutbrain Ventures. The round brings Allure Security's total funding to $43 million. The financing comes as AI-powered fraud reaches unprecedented scale. The FBI reported $16.6 billion in cybercrime losses, up 33% year over year, with phishing and spoofing as the most frequently reported attack category and deepfake fraud attempts surging 3,000 percent in a single year. Allure Security is built for this shift. Press Release

Source: PR Newswire

03/20/2026

1stProtect Emerges From Stealth With $20M in Funding

Endpoint security startup 1stProtect emerged from stealth mode with $20 million in funding from Andra Capital and All Blue Capital. San Francisco-based 1stProtect has built an endpoint security platform that monitors system behavior and user intent to prevent cyberattacks in real time. The pre-emptive solution enforces security policies at runtime, blocking malicious behavior at the operating system level, instead of relying on a cloud architecture for decision-making. 1stProtect analyzes the attack’s destination and intent, operating as a self-defending system even in disconnected or restricted environments. Full Story

Source: SecurityWeek

03/19/2026

XBOW Raises $120M to Scale its Autonomous Hacker

XBOW, a Seattle startup, pulled in a $120 million Series C round led by DFJ Growth and Northzone. With that cash, they have passed the $1 billion valuation mark and landed unicorn status. The timing makes sense because enterprise security teams are fighting an uphill battle. Generative AI lets attackers throw out complex, nonstop attacks without breaking a sweat or spending a dime. Old-school point-in-time pen testing just can’t keep up. XBOW’s answer? An “autonomous hacker”, their AI platform finds, moves through and actually exploits security holes faster than any human crew ever could. That’s not just an upgrade; it’s a whole new way to fight back. XBOW raised its $75 million Series B round in Jun. 2025. Full Story

Source: Ventureburn

03/19/2026

Consumer-focused privacy company Cloaked raises $375M as it expands to enterprise

Consumer-facing security tools often focus on one kind of modality, such as password protection, VPNs, or identity management. This forces people to use multiple tools to keep their data private. Lowell, Mass.-based Cloaked, the company that instead offers a bundle of security and privacy solutions, announced Mar. 19 that it has secured $375 million in Series B funding and growth financing to expand its consumer offering and move into the enterprise market. The company tells TechCrunch it saw 10x growth last year and now has more than 350,000 paying customers. It has also protected 10 million identities and helped users clean up more than 1 billion records from data broker sites. Cloaked is also now rolling out to the enterprise, offering employees some of the same protection as in its consumer products, including identity and password management. Full Story

Source: TechCrunch

03/19/2026

Oasis Security raises $120M Series B to secure the rise of AI agents

Cybersecurity startup Oasis Security has raised $120 million in a Series B funding round led by Craft Ventures, with participation from existing investors Cyberstarts, Sequoia Capital, and Accel. The new capital brings the company’s total funding to $195 million. Founded in 2022, Oasis develops what it calls “agentic access management,” a framework designed for a computing environment where machine identities vastly outnumber human users. According to data cited by Palo Alto Networks, machine identities now outnumber humans by a ratio of 82 to 1. Over the past year, the company says it has seen strong enterprise uptake, with new annual recurring revenue growing fivefold. Its customer base is concentrated among large organizations, with a majority of clients drawn from the Fortune 500. Full Story

Source: CTech

03/19/2026

Cybersecurity startup Eclypsium raises $25M to secure AI infrastructure

Eclypsium, a Portland, Ore.-based cybersecurity startup, raised $25 million in new funding to expand its hardware and firmware security platform. The round was led by PEAK6 Strategic Capital, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures and an undisclosed bank. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Madrona, Qualcomm Ventures, and others also participated. Founded in 2017 by former security engineers at Intel, Eclypsium serves private and public sector customers. It scans the hardware and firmware of laptops, servers, network devices, and AI infrastructure for vulnerabilities that sit below the operating system. The company plans to use the funds to expand further into AI infrastructure and a growing array of edge devices. Eclypsium raised $45 million in equity and debt as part of a Series C round last January. Total funding to date is $110 million. Full Story

Source: GeekWire

03/18/2026

AI cybersecurity startup RunSybil, founded by OpenAI’s first security hire, raises $40M

RunSybil, an AI cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to automatically hack company software to find security weaknesses, has secured $40 million in venture capital funding. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from S32, the Anthology Fund from Anthropic and Menlo Ventures, Conviction and Elad Gil, along with angel investors including Nikesh Arora, Amit Agarwal, Jeff Dean, and other founders and leaders from companies including OpenAI, Palo Alto Networks, Stripe and Google. RunSybil was co-founded in 2023 by Ari Herbert-Voss, who joined OpenAI as its first security research hire in 2019, and Vlad Ionescu, who previously led offensive security red teams at Meta. Full Story

Source: Fortune

03/18/2026

Raven.io Raises $20M in Funding

Raven.io, a Palo Alto, CA-based cybersecurity company that protects applications at runtime and prevents attacks in real time, raised $20M in funding. The round was led by Norwest with participation from RedSeed, UpWest, SentinelOne, Jibe Ventures, Dnipro VC, Unusual Ventures, CyberFuture and Descope CEO Slavik Markovi. Raven.io also received a post-seed investment led by Elron Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product development, expand go-to-market activities in the United States, and grow its engineering and research teams. Its platform in production with 11 enterprise customers across insurance and financial services. Raven’s technology has been registered in three U.S. patents. Full Story

Source: FINSMES

03/18/2026

Manifold Announces $8 Million Seed Funding Round

Manifold, the AI Detection and Response platform securing autonomous AI on endpoints, announced the close of an $8 million seed funding round. Costanoa Ventures led the round 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 be used to fuel the development of Manifold’s agentic AI Detection and Response (AIDR) platform, designed to protect companies from the risks of expanding autonomous AI usage across enterprise endpoints, enabling enterprise employees to securely embrace agentic AI at scale. Press Release

Source: GlobeNewswire

03/17/2026

Tracebit raises $20M Series A to expand cloud-native deception tech

Tracebit, a cloud-native cybersecurity company focused on threat detection, has raised a $20 million Series A round led by FirstMark, with participation from Accel. MMC Ventures, Tapestry VC, and CCL also joined the round. The funding follows the company’s $5 million seed round in 2024, led by Accel, bringing Tracebit’s total funding to $25 million. Founded in 2023, Tracebit develops cloud-native deception technology designed for modern infrastructure. The system enables organisations to deploy decoy assets, known as canaries, across their environments to detect threats early and support an “assume breach” approach to security. Full Story

Source: Tech.eu

03/17/2026

Surf AI raises $57M for AI platform built for security teams

Israeli-founded cybersecurity startup Surf AI raised $57 million in funding, saying it aims to help enterprise security teams continuously identify and close security exposure gaps through an AI-driven operations platform. The funding round was led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Cyberstarts and Boldstart Ventures. Surf AI said the capital would be used to expand product development, grow its team, and support broader enterprise adoption. Across early deployments, Surf AI said its platform helped organizations recover nearly $1 million in excess SaaS license spending, disable thousands of dormant and orphaned accounts, address certificate-related risks, and automate identity enforcement workflows across enterprise users. Full Story

Source: The Jerusalem Post

03/17/2026

Native Launches with $42M to Operationalize Security-by-Design

Native emerged from stealth with $42 million in funding, introducing the first cloud security control plane: a platform that translates security intent into enforceable, secure-by-design cloud architecture that continuously adapts across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The $31 million Series A was led by Ballistic Ventures, with continued participation from seed investors General Catalyst, YL Ventures, and Merlin Ventures. Phil Venables, former CISO of Google Cloud, has joined Native's board. Venables called the company's approach "the next big evolution in cloud security." Native is already trusted by Fortune 100 organizations across finance, technology, and media. Press Release

Source: AccessWire

03/17/2026

Young "bug bounty hunter" bags $6M pre-seed round for security startup

A French cybersecurity startup founded by a 23-year-old who made a name for himself as a professional “bug bounty hunter”, earning hundreds of thousands of pounds from Facebook and Google in rewards, has raised a $5.9 million pre-seed round. Lupin & Holmes, named after Arsène Lupin (the fictional master thief, created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc, which went on to become a Netflix show) and Sherlock Holmes, the startup has captured lead investment from Harry Stebbings' 20VC and Seedcamp. Kima Ventures, Purple Ventures and the founders of Hugging Face and Wiz also invested. Founder Roni Carta made a name for himself as a hacker early in life, inspired by Lupin. At the age of 17, he spent several years as a senior security engineer and “professional bug bounty hunter”, effectively a researcher paid by companies to legally hack and find security vulnerabilities before criminals do. Full Story

Source: Tech.eu

03/13/2026

Onyx Security Launches With $40M In Funding

Tel-Aviv and New York-based Onyx Security raised $40 million in funding from Conviction Partners and Cyberstarts, as the startup seeks to build what it calls a secure AI control plane for the growing use of autonomous AI agents in the enterprise. The company said its platform is designed to discover AI agents, monitor their reasoning steps, and approve, block, or correct actions in real time, as businesses increasingly deploy AI-driven security and governance systems across functions including engineering and customer service. The company works with multiple Fortune 500 customers, employs more than 70 people across Israel, the U.S., and Canada, and plans to use the funding to expand product and engineering teams. Full Story

Source: The Jerusalem Post

03/13/2026

Cleafy raises €12M to stop bank fraud before it starts

For more than a decade, Cleafy has been telling banks that waiting for fraud to happen before responding to it is a losing strategy. The Milan-based cybersecurity firm has now raised €12 million in a Series B round, bringing total funding to €22 million, to prove the point at scale. The round is co-led by United Ventures and Germany’s eCAPITAL, both returning investors. The capital will go towards accelerating Cleafy’s predictive security capabilities, expanding global threat intelligence, and deepening its footprint in banking markets across Europe and Latin America. Founded in 2014, the company says it now protects more than 250 million users across over 150 financial institutions, including ING, Illimity, and BPS Suisse. Full Story

Source: The Next Web

03/12/2026

Security data platform Scanner secures $22M funding

Scanner, a cybersecurity company building a data platform designed for modern security operations, has announced new funding of $22 million. The Series A round is led by Sequoia Capital, with additional participation from CRV and Mantis VC and a number of angel investors with backgrounds in cybersecurity and infrastructure. The investment is intended to accelerate the company’s mission to deliver faster and more scalable security data infrastructure for enterprise security teams. The company said several technology firms are already using its platform, including Notion, Ramp, BeyondTrust, Lemonade, Benchling, Postman and EliseAI. Full Story

Source: Fintech Global

03/12/2026

Israeli cyber startup Bold raises $28M Series A

Cybersecurity company Bold Security has raised $28 million in a Series A funding round. The round saw participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Picture Capital, and Red Dot Ventures. To date, the company has raised a total of $40 million, including a $12 million Seed round in 2024. That round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Picture Capital, with additional contributions from Cerca and angel investors such as Wiz founders Assaf Rappaport and Roy Reznik. The Tel Aviv-based startup has developed AI software to protect enterprise devices like laptops from the rising threat of cyberattacks. It's also been building during a time of war, which the startup's 35-year-old cofounder and CEO, Nati Hazut, told Business Insider gives Israel's tech sector a sense of "resilience." Full Story

Source: CTech

03/11/2026

Startup Quantro Security emerges from stealth with $2.5M in seed funding

Quantro Security, a New York-based cybersecurity startup, has emerged from stealth with $2.5 million in seed funding to develop an AI powered vulnerability management platform designed to help organizations better understand and reduce security risks. Founded in 2025 by veterans from CrowdStrike, Tenable, and Qualys, the company has built an AI agent called VM.Analyst that aggregates and analyzes security data from across enterprise systems to provide actionable intelligence for security teams. The seed funding round values Quantro Security at $25 million and follows the company's early traction with initial customers. Full Story

Source: CXO Pulse

03/11/2026

Qevlar AI Raises $30 Million in Funding

Qevlar AI, a Paris, France-based agentic AI security operations center platform, has raised $30 million in funding. The round was jointly led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital International, with participation from EQT Ventures. With the new funding, Qevlar AI plans to expand its platform capabilities beyond investigation automation to generate actionable security insights derived from aggregated alert data. Founded in 2023, Qevlar AI provides an agentic AI security operations center platform designed to automate and deepen security investigations. Its customer base includes large enterprises such as Mercedes-Benz and Sodexo, as well as major MSSPs including Orange Cyberdefense, ECI, and Atos. Full Story

Source: The SaaS News

03/10/2026

Escape secures $18M Series A to develop AI cybersecurity agents

Escape, an offensive security engineering platform, has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round to develop AI agents designed to automate the security lifecycle. The round was led by Balderton, with participation from Uncorrelated Ventures and existing investors IRIS and Y Combinator. The company aims to replace legacy scanners and manual offensive security processes with AI agents designed to automate security testing and remediation across the development lifecycle. The platform focuses on what it describes as offensive security engineering, an approach that uses AI agents to identify, test, and remediate vulnerabilities directly within engineering workflows. Full Story

Source: Tech.eu

03/10/2026

Armadin Secures Record-Breaking $190M in Seed and Series A Funding to Combat the Era of AI-Driven Hyperattacks

Armadin, an AI-native cybersecurity company focused on building the ultimate attacker, announced it 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, this marks the largest combined Seed and Series A funding round in cybersecurity history. Armadin's mission is to prepare organizations for the speed and scale of AI-driven threats. "The AI shift is changing cybersecurity more rapidly than any transition in history," said Kevin Mandia, CEO of Armadin. Press Release

Source: PR Newswire

03/10/2026

AI Cyber Startup Kai Raises $125M

Kai, an AI-powered cybersecurity startup, has raised $125 million in a combined seed and Series A round. The round was led by Evolution Equity Partners and included venture-capital firm N47 and other investors. Kai co-founder and CEO Galina Antova said the funds will go toward expanding into new markets, scaling operations and boosting AI research and development, among other initiatives. Based in San Jose, Calif., Kai is developing an AI-enabled cyber platform from the ground up. Antova said most cyber platforms—a kind of dashboard of security apps with different functions—are cobbled together through acquisitions, “with AI bolted on.” Full Story

Source: The Wall Street Journal

03/10/2026

Cybersecurity startup Jazz raises $61M to reinvent data loss prevention with AI

Cybersecurity startup Jazz said it has raised $61 million in early-stage funding and emerged from stealth with a platform aimed at rethinking how companies prevent sensitive data from leaking outside their organizations. The funding — a combination of seed and Series A rounds — was led by Glilot Capital Partners and Team8, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Merlin Ventures, Encoded Ventures and MassMutual Ventures, as well as several cybersecurity entrepreneurs. The company said the investment will help expand its engineering, research and sales operations as it seeks to scale globally and increase adoption among large enterprises. Full Story

Source: ynet Global

03/10/2026

Dark Watch Closes Oversubscribed $3.5M Seed Round

Dark Watch, a company advancing real-time threat intelligence for the hospitality industry, announced the close of an oversubscribed $3.5 million seed funding round. The round was led by Eagle Venture Fund, with participation from His Kingdom Resources and Blu Ventures, and closed in late December. Dark Watch is building a safety intelligence layer delivering AI-powered Know Your Guest technology. The new funding will allow Dark Watch to accelerate product development, enhance safety intelligence capabilities, integrate further with hospitality enterprise systems, and increase commercial deployments with hospitality clients. Press Release

Source: EIN Presswire

03/10/2026

Slide Raises $70 Million Series B

Slide, the modern, security-first Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) platform built exclusively for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), announced it has raised $70 million in Series B funding led by General Catalyst, with participation from Base10, Outsiders Fund, futurepresent, Vine Ventures, Glynn Capital Management, Benchstrength, Top Down Ventures, and Connecticut Innovations. Alongside the funding, Slide is opening its UK office and launching a dedicated German data center to support EMEA partners. Slide was built from scratch, free of legacy technical debt, for speed, security, and, most importantly, exclusively for MSPs. Press Release

Source: GlobeNewswire

03/09/2026

Augur Raises $15M In Seed Funding

Augur, a London, UK-based provider of a sensor technology company, raised $15 million in Seed funding. The round was led by Plural, with participation from First Kind, SNR, Flix and Tiny VC. The company intends to use the funds to support rapid deployment of its technology as governments, operators and venue owners across Europe face rising security threats to vulnerable public spaces and critical national infrastructure. Augur is a technology company that applies AI to support national security, protect public spaces and safeguard critical national infrastructure. Full Story

Source: FINSMES

03/06/2026

African cybersecurity startup Cybervergent raises $3M in seed funding

African cybersecurity startup Cybervergent has secured $3 million in seed funding to expand technology designed to automate how organisations manage data security risks, governance and regulatory compliance. The company provides “a platform that continuously monitors compliance, security, and regulatory obligations, replacing periodic manual audits with real-time oversight”. The round was co-led by Ventures Platform, marking the firm’s first investment from its Pan-African Fund II. The capital will support the development and expansion of Cybervergent’s platform across African markets. The new funding comes as African regulators tighten oversight of digital services, financial platforms and data protection. Africa loses more than $3 billion annually to cybercrime, while nearly 90 percent of businesses operate without adequate cybersecurity protections. Full Story

Source: ITWeb

03/06/2026

Irish data security startup Evervault raises $25M

Evervault, a data encryption start-up founded by Irishman Shane Curran, has raised $25 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Next Play Ventures and new investors including Operator Partners. The new round brings the start-up’s total funding to date to $46 million. Evervault builds developer infrastructure to collect, process and share sensitive data. The New York and Dublin-based company helps companies to encrypt and orchestrate sensitive data without ever handling it in plaintext. Full Story

Source: Silicon Republic

03/06/2026

Cybersecurity startup Cylake raises $45M in Seed funding

Cybersecurity entrepreneur Nir Zuk, the co-founder of Palo Alto Networks, has unveiled his new startup, Cylake, which has raised $45 million in a Seed funding round led by Greylock, alongside other experienced technology investors. The company is developing a comprehensive, AI-based cybersecurity platform built on a data-driven architecture. Unlike many modern security platforms, Cylake’s system is designed to operate without reliance on the public cloud, allowing organizations to maintain full sovereignty over their data and operations. Cylake plans to collaborate with a select group of design partners as it develops the platform, with product availability anticipated in early 2027. Full Story

Source: CTech

03/06/2026

Cotool raises $7.4M in seed funding

Cotool raised a $7.4 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from WndrCo and and a group of angel investors. Cotool is building what it calls the "distributed factory," which are agents across the full detection and response lifecycle that share context, surface anomalies continuously, and close the loop between detection and response. A post on its site says that Cotool is in production with teams at Ramp, Elise AI, and other world-class security teams, and that their agents have completed over 50,000 runs across detection, triage, investigation, and response. The company is backed by We're backed by 16z, YCombinator, WndrCo, Homebrew, and angels from Okta, Ramp, Cloudflare, Amplitude, and SumoLogic. Full Story

Source: Axios

03/05/2026

Reclaim Security Raises $20M In Series A Funding Round

Reclaim Security, a preemptive exposure-remediation platform, announced $26 million in total funding, including a recent $20 million Series A round led by Acrew Capital, with participation from QP Ventures and Ibex Investors. The funding will accelerate the company's mission to eliminate what many security leaders consider cybersecurity's most persistent gap: remediation. Reclaim's platform introduces what they call the industry's first AI Security Engineer, an autonomous system designed not only to identify exposures, but to resolve them safely and at scale. With the new funding, Reclaim plans to expand its engineering organization, deepen enterprise integrations, and accelerate go-to-market initiatives across North America and Europe. Full Story

Source: PR Newswire

03/04/2026

IntelliGRC raises $3.5M Seed Round For Its GRCaaS Platform

IntelliGRC, a cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform designed for managed service providers (MSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs), announced it has closed a $3.5 million seed funding round. The investment will support product innovation, expand artificial intelligence capabilities, and accelerate go-to-market efforts as the company scales its Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance as a Service (GRCaaS) platform. Based in Fairfax, Va., IntelliGRC is building a provider-centric platform intended to help service providers deliver compliance services at scale. Full Story

Source: Pulse 2.0

03/03/2026

JetStream Launches with $34M Seed Round to Bring Governance to Enterprise AI

JetStream Security, a new company founded by veteran security operators from CrowdStrike, Dazz, SentinelOne, Cohesity, McAfee, and Attivo Networks, launched its AI governance platform. JetStream raised $34 million in a massively over-subscribed seed round led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund. Cybersecurity luminaries like George Kurtz (CrowdStrike), Assaf Rappaport (Wiz), and Frederic Kerrest (Okta) are some of its blue-chip angel investors. JetStream's seed round closed in a matter of weeks, reflecting strong demand from both investors and enterprises. The company is already working with F500 organizations, and plans to expand rapidly across engineering, product, and go-to-market teams. Press Release

Source: Access Newswire

03/03/2026

Fig Security emerges from stealth with $38M

Fig Security, a startup by veterans of Israel’s cyber and data intelligence units 8200 and Mamram, claims to help security teams by monitoring the security stack to see if their rules, mitigation tools, and detection and response capabilities are functioning or skewed off course by changes. The startup just came out of stealth with $38 million in seed and Series A funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. In a nutshell, the startup’s tech traces data flows in the security stack, from the origin at sources through data pipelines and data lakes to security orchestration and automation response platforms, and then alerts security teams when changes at any point affect detection or response capabilities. Full Story

Source: TechCrunch

03/03/2026

ArmorCode Raises $16M to Expand Agentic AI Platform

ArmorCode just raised $16 million in new funding, pushing its total to $81 million so far. With this boost, the company plans to ramp up its Agentic AI Platform, reach more customers around the world, and keep rolling out new features. ArmorCode has doubled year over year, supporting Global 2000 enterprises. Interest in AI security governance and lifecycle management is growing, with nearly 80 percent of customers requesting expanded visibility into AI agents, MCP servers, and shadow AI. Cheyenne Ventures took the lead in the Series B round, with Ballistic Ventures, Highland Capital, Sierra Ventures, NGP Capital, Harmonic Growth Partners, Tau Ventures, and Cervin participating. Full Story

Source: Ventureburn

02/27/2026

ThreatAware Raises $25M to Scale Cybersecurity with AI

London-based ThreatAware, a cyber asset management and cyber hygiene platform trusted by enterprises across sectors including retail, financial services, and energy, announced it has raised $25 million in funding from One Peak, a growth equity firm.The investment will help ThreatAware scale its rapidly growing North American operations and accelerate its ambitious product roadmap, including the launch of ThreatAware's AI-powered security workspace. ThreatAware's platform is used by over 100 organizations. To date, ThreatAware has reached profitability with no outside funding. Press Release

Source: Businesswire

02/26/2026

UpGuard Raises $75M in Series C Funding

UpGuard, a leader in cybersecurity and risk management, announced it has raised a Series C funding round of $75 million from Springcoast Partners. The minority funding round will accelerate UpGuard's next growth phase, including the expansion of its AI-powered Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) platform capabilities, scaling global go-to-market functions, and pursuing strategic M&A. Springcoast led the round and joins existing investors, August Capital, Square Peg Capital, and Pelion Venture Partners. UpGuard is trusted by 50,000 organizations in 90+ countries, including over 2000 customers who are supported by UpGuard's distributed workforce across 14 countries with localized support and diverse expertise. Press Release

Source: PR Newswire

02/25/2026

Evoke Security raises $4M in pre-seed funding

Evoke Security, a cybersecurity startup focused on securing the agentic workforce, has raised $4 million in pre-seed funding led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, with participation from Red Cell Partners. The company said the capital will support its mission to provide security teams with visibility and control over AI agents operating across enterprise environments. The funding announcement follows Evoke Security’s selection into the 2026 CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA Accelerator Program, as well as its membership in the NVIDIA Inception Program. The company positions itself as a security platform designed specifically for AI agents that are already accessing sensitive enterprise systems and data. Full Story

Source: Pulse 2.0

02/25/2026

Israeli startup Gambit Security raises $61M

Israeli AI-native resilience cybersecurity platform Gambit Security announced that it has emerged from stealth with $61 million in seed and Series A funding. Investors include Spark Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Cyberstarts, with an investment led by general partner Lior Simon. Gambit Security was founded less than 12 months ago to help enterprises remain resilient across their entire technology stack. The company’s AI-native resilience platform connects to all environments, security solutions, and backup tools to autonomously map an organization’s infrastructure and backup data, uncovering gaps that break static recovery plans and put continuity at risk. Full Story

Source: GLOBES

02/24/2026

Ex-IDF cyber commanders launch Astelia, secure $25 million Series A

Cybersecurity startup Astelia has raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Team8 and Holly Ventures. The company currently employs more than 30 people across Israel and the U.S. Astelia develops a security exposure management platform designed to help organizations prioritize and mitigate cyber risks more effectively. The company was founded in late 2024 by Alon Noy, who serves as CEO; Nadav Ostrovsky, CTO; and Roy Rajwan, CPO. Noy, a graduate of the Talpiot program, served approximately 15 years in the IDF, where he led operational units in Unit 8200 and headed the National Red Team. Ostrovsky, also a Talpiot graduate, served in the IDF’s Matzov unit alongside Rajwan. Full Story

Source: CTech

02/21/2026

Zenyard Closes Pre-Seed Funding

Zenyard, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based company building a purpose-built AI agent for software reverse engineering, raised an undisclosed amount in Pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Mindset Ventures, with participation from TAU Ventures, Zuk Avraham, Raanan Raz, and additional investors. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts. Zenyard is developing an AI agent specifically designed for reverse engineering workflows. Instead of operating on fragments, its agent understands entire binaries, handles the heavy lifting of analyzing decompiled code, and provides explainability so researchers can trust the results. Full Story

Source: FINSMES

02/21/2026

NNEAT closes €800,000 funding round to expand its cybersecurity platform in Europe

The Basque startup NNEAT, a spin-off of Versia, has closed a €800,000 seed round led by Easo Ventures, with participation from Basque Fondo, Seed Capital Bizkaia, and BBK Fundazioa, to accelerate the development and European expansion of its AI-native platform focused on continuous threat exposure management. The startup has developed an AI-native platform that integrates external threat intelligence, maps against MITRE ATT&CK, and automatically analyzes security configurations and controls. The startup currently operates in sectors such as industry and food, critical infrastructure, insurance, and public administration, with a focus also on managed security service providers (MSSPs). Full Story

Source: Capital Riesgo

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