SECURITYJun 8 · 11:03 UTCFORTUNELily Mae Lazarus

Why Lightspeed and Wiz’s Assaf Rappaport bet $37 million on an AI-powered cyberattacker

A New York-based autonomous offensive security startup raised $37 million in funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Cyberstarts, and angels including Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport. The startup uses AI to simulate continuous cyberattacks, identifying vulnerabilities before real hackers exploit them, following Anthropic’s Mythos model revealing thousands of zero-day flaws.

Nexus surfaces and summarizes. The full story lives at the source.

Mentioned

Lightspeed Venture PartnersorganizationCyberstartsorganizationAssaf RappaportpersonWizorganizationAnthropicorganizationMythostopicAorganizationYossi ToratipersonOmer GullpersonYuval ItzchakovpersonCheck PointorganizationHuntersorganizationIDF Unit 8200organizationXBOWorganization

Spot something wrong with this article?Report a problem →

Forward this

Related Signal

Adjacent reporting

SECURITYMay 12 · 15:07 UTC
Exaforce raises $125M Series B to build AI for catching and stopping cyberattacks as they happen
SECURITYJun 3 · 10:00 UTC
Value of Huntington Beach defense tech startup balloons to $1.8 billion
TECHNOLOGYApr 15 · 13:00 UTC
Gitar, a startup that uses agents to secure code, emerges from stealth with $9 million
TECHNOLOGYMay 13 · 13:00 UTC
Nvidia's Jensen Huang bets on this British startup to build 'next frontier' of AI
TECHNOLOGYMay 11 · 17:38 UTC
Daniel Ek-backed defense tech Helsing to raise $1.2B at $18B valuation
TECHNOLOGYMay 7 · 16:21 UTC
DOGE’s Ethan Shaotran Is Now Running a Defense Tech Startup