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Cybersecurity venture funding

Investment activity by venture capital firms into cybersecurity startups, spanning seed to growth-stage rounds across security product categories.

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investConfirmed6 publishers

Harmonic Security raises $50 million while two of its rivals go to larger buyers

Harmonic Security raised a $50 million Series B led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, lifting its total funding to $76 million. Calcalist put rival Prompt Security's sale at about $250 million on $23 million raised, the nearest price comparison.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 38%
Investor
Investor 35%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption35
Hype gap+20
Incentives65
Confidence62
investOne report1 publisher

Top Tier Capital Partners leads a Series B of more than $50 million in Reach Security

Reach Security raised more than $50 million in a Series B led by Top Tier Capital Partners, with In-Q-Tel and Microsoft's M12 in the round. One round with no disclosed valuation is thin evidence of category-wide appetite for AI-driven defence.

Publishers:fintech.global

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption35
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence45
productConfirmed7 publishers

Pluto Security raises about $34 million, bringing total funding to $42 million, to track what employees build with AI

Pluto Security came out of stealth with $42 million in total funding for software that watches what employees build with AI tools. CEO Shahar Bahat argues that employees adopt tools faster than security teams can evaluate them; the usage figures behind that come from Pluto.

Perspective Coverage

9 publishers
Builder
Builder 21%
Operator
Operator 35%
Investor
Investor 44%

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption40
Hype gap+20
Incentives75
Confidence60
productOne report1 publisher

CodeWall raises $4 million for AI agents meant to take over from the annual pen test

CodeWall, a London startup, launched with $4 million for AI agents that attack enterprises, pitched as a replacement for the once- or twice-yearly pen test. A buyer weighing the annual test against it has the company's own runs against consulting firms to go on.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence55
productConfirmed6 publishers

Reco takes $55 million into an agent security market where two dozen vendors sound alike

Reco, whose software maps what AI agents can reach and cuts unneeded access, added $55 million in a field of at least two dozen rivals. Their pitches share one vocabulary, so a buyer has to compare what each product does once it finds an agent.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 24%
Operator
Operator 36%
Investor
Investor 40%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption40
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence60
productOne report1 publisher

Rig Security raises $12 million to tell AI agents apart from the employees whose logins they use

Rig Security launched with $12 million to separate the actions of AI agents from those of the employees whose accounts they run under. Its early customers use it to learn whether a person or an agent took an action logged under an employee's name.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption25
Hype gap+25
Incentives70
Confidence40
productOne report1 publisher

Exein raises $270M on embedded security already running on more than two billion devices

Exein's valuation is thirty times what it was two years ago on technology already inside more than two billion devices, and the foundation model that telemetry is meant to train is not due until the first quarter of 2027.

Reality

Evidence24
Adoption45
Hype gap+40
Incentives88
Confidence58