Echo Secures $35M to Tackle Cloud Vulnerabilities With AI

Secure-by-Design Startup Uses AI Agents to Safeguard Containers, VMs and Libraries Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • December 16, 2025

A secure software infrastructure startup led by the former CEO of Argon Security raised $35 million to create a secure-by-design foundation for cloud computing.

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The N47-led Series A funding round will allow New York-based Echo to expand from offering enterprise-ready, vulnerability-free container images as foundational components for cloud apps to covering virtual machines and open-source libraries, said co-founder and CEO Eilon Elhadad. Echo, he said, focuses on eliminates vulnerabilities at the source rather than patching them after deployment.

"So today, we are secure and providing a container OS, but in the future, we want to expand to virtual machines and libraries and basically any resource in the cloud," Elhadad told Information Security Media ...