Discern Security today announced raising $13 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $16 million.
The investment round was led by Forgepoint Capital, with additional support from First Rays Ventures, Growth Enjin Partners, Vela Ventures, and angel investors.
Founded in 2023, California-based Discern Security provides an agentic, proactive security platform for continuous security posture evaluation and security control improvement.
The Discern Security Loop platform unifies data from an organization’s environment and combines AI agents and human-approved workflows with business context to identify control gaps and prioritize remediation.
It allows security teams to assess controls, automate workflows, and prioritize remediation through proactive, agent-driven security operations that unify security data and vendor best practices.
Discern connects all findings to assets, controls, and compliance requirements to automate analysis and help organizations strengthen security posture while gaining measurable evidence of progress.
The company will use the fresh funding to expand its engineering and product teams, accelerate platform development and adoption, and grow its AI Skills and autonomous capabilities library.
“AI can significantly improve security posture by closing control gaps with existing tools, but doing so requires a deep understanding of the organization’s environment, business context, and security stack,” said Forgepoint Capital partner Rey Kirton.
“Discern brings that understanding into an AI-powered workspace that helps users investigate, act, and continuously improve security,” Kirton added.
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