Financing for cyber security start-ups supported by projects reached this yr, and on Thursday one other sign of this appeared.
Exiforce Blocked funds for $ 75 million, which was run by Khosla VenturesIN Mayfield Fund 1 AND Thomvest Ventures.
The startup from (*75*) Jose in California helps to introduce artificial intelligence agents to security centers or SOC. The idea is that with the help of information significantly limited the work of SOC conducted by man while improving security results.
“Our vision is to strengthen the position of SOC teams in an intelligent platform, which allows people to easily cooperate with AI-involvement of precise human supervision with advanced automation,” said co-founder and general director of Ankur Singla Wa release. “Using exabots along with advanced data research, we reduce false positives and eliminate tedious work-all, which we give people the flexibility of choosing the place where they want to be practical.”
Cutting artificial intelligence and security
Last week, Umesh PadvalManaging Director in Thomvest Ventures who took part in the round, said Crunchbase News with one significant trend, guided by this space, is artificial intelligence, and more specifically Agentic AI.
“This can do this specialists in cyber security more effective, improving surgery and shortening time to solve critical hats in operating centers of enterprise security,” he said. “Automation becomes a key solution in these environments.”
Financing in general for cyber criminals supported by VC exceeded $ 2.7 billion in the first quarter, on Crunchbase data. This is a 29% increase compared to the last quarter of 2024 and only a small decrease from $ 2.8 billion collected in the same quarter of last yr.