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Fortune
Lily Mae Lazarus

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

from left to right: Omer Gull, Yuval Itzchakov, and Yossi Torati (Credit: Courtesy of A)

Mock cyber attacks used to cost about $30,000, take two weeks, and tell companies what their defenses looked like six months ago. Then Anthropic’s Mythos showed up, exposing thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities.

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.

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