Why Lightspeed and Wiz’s Assaf Rappaport bet $37 million on an AI-powered cyberattacker
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FORTUNE — A (yes, as in the letter) uses AI to continuously break into its own customers’ systems—finding real attack paths and fixing them—before actual hackers get the chance. The New York-based autonomous offensive security startup, emerged from stealth with $37 million in funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Cyberstarts, and angels including Wiz CEO Assaf Rapaport and Cyera CEO Yotam Segev, Fortune learned exclusively.
The timing is hard to miss. Anthropic’s Mythos model—unveiled April 8 in a restricted release—autonomously surfaced previously unknown security flaws across every major operating system and browser.
This handed unsophisticated attackers a preview of what’s coming. “Today every teenager, every grandmother can take a laptop, access those frontier models, and do things that were once reserved for nation-state actors,” A CEO and cofounder Yossi Torati told me. “We will face a meltdown in the industry.”
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