Autonomous security provider Horizon3.ai has announced raising $100 million in a Series D funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $178.5 million.
The new investment round was led by NEA, with additional support from 9Yards Capital, Craft Ventures, and SignalFire.
Based in San Francisco, Horizon3.ai has built an autonomous pentesting as a self-service SaaS platform that allows organizations to check their security posture and address weaknesses.
The NodeZero platform, the company says, thinks and acts like an adversary, and collects training data on every cyberattack it executes against production systems, to improve its algorithms. The solution continuously searches for and exploits real-world attack paths to help organizations address them.
The platform harvests information on exploitable CVEs, misconfigurations, product defaults, ineffective security controls, and exposed credentials, and provides security teams with proof of exploit, enabling them to visualize how attackers could compromise their systems.
Horizon3.ai will use the new funding to scale its partner ecosystem globally, expand product capabilities with web application pentesting, vulnerability management, and precision defense, and increase its platform’s adoption within federal agencies.
Founded in 2019, the cybersecurity firm says its solutions are used by over 3,000 organizations globally, including Fortune 500 companies and national defense entities.
“Security teams are tired of chasing CVEs, false positives, and compliance checkboxes. They want to find and fix what actually matters, verify it’s resolved, and go home early. NodeZero plays a critical role in reducing your threat exposure over time,” Horizon3.ai co-founder and CEO Snehal Antani said.
*Updated to correct the total raised.
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