Kai Security

Backed byEvolution Equity Partners
Total raised$125.0M
StageSeries A
Hiring pace2 roles / 90d
Founded2025
Team size11-50
HQSan Francisco, California
IndustriesCybersecurity

About Kai Security

Kai is an AI company focused on rebuilding cybersecurity for the machine-speed era. It was founded by the creators of category-defining companies Claroty and SecurityMatters, with co-founders Galina Antova (CEO) and Damiano Bolzoni (CTO). Kai is trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises. Its mission is to enable security with no categories, no silos, and no human-speed bottlenecks.

Open positions · 2

Company at a glance

Location
San Francisco, California
Investors
Evolution Equity Partners ·Next47
LinkedInLinkedIn

Location

About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Engineering100%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.Northeastern University
  2. 2.North Carolina State University
  3. 3.University of Arizona
  4. 4.University of Cincinnati
  5. 5.Vellore Institute of Technology

Team Worked At

  • Amazon
  • Apple
  • Accenture
  • Regions Bank
  • Bharat Electronics

Culture & values

The company aims to remove silos and fragmented workflows to enable cross-functional collaboration.

Work is designed to operate at machine speed, reducing human-speed bottlenecks.

Agentic AI systems are central to the workflow, continuously contextualizing, assessing, reasoning, and executing security work.

The organization emphasizes empowering human defenders to be superhuman through automation and AI augmentation.

The culture appears to favor fast-paced, technology-driven collaboration rather than siloed, slow processes.

Funding History

Series AMar 2026

$125M

raised

Kai, an artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity startup, raised $125 million in a combined seed and Series A led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from N47 and other investors.

Evolution Equity PartnersNext47

Life at Kai Security

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