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AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI
AegisAI, an email security startup founded by former Google security executives Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, has raised $36 million in a Series A funding round
Key takeaways
- AegisAI raised a $36 million Series A led by Battery Ventures.
- AI-powered attacks bypass existing security controls more than half the time now.
- AegisAI's AI agents can spot threats, like malicious PDFs with built-in passwords, that traditional systems miss.
- Building customized, highly advanced investigative agents will determine who becomes the next dominant security company.
AegisAI, an email security startup founded by former Google security executives Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, has raised $36 million in a Series A funding round led by Battery Ventures. The round, which included participation from Accel and Foundation Capital, brings the startup's total funding to $49 million. AegisAI deploys AI agents designed to analyze incoming emails for subtle anomalies, bypassing traditional rule-based filters to catch highly personalized, AI-generated spear-phishing attacks.
In their words
“AI-powered attacks bypass existing controls more than half the time now, which means they’re almost twice as effective as they used to be.”
“The bad guys are using email to attack us using AI at a much faster pace than we can keep up with.”
By the numbers
- $36M
- Series A funding raised by AegisAI
- $49M
- Total capital raised by AegisAI
- >50%
- Rate at which AI-powered attacks bypass existing controls
- 2x
- Increase in effectiveness of AI-powered attacks
How it unfolded
- Former Google security executives launch AegisAI.
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Common questions
- What happened with AegisAI?
- AegisAI raised a $36 million Series A led by Battery Ventures.
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- Read the full report at techcrunch.
