Root Evidence Launches With $12.5 Million in Seed Funding

Cybersecurity startup Root Evidence today announced its launch with $12.5 million raised in an oversubscribed seed round led by Ballistic Ventures. Grossman Ventures and others provided additional financial support.

Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, Root Evidence was founded in July 2025 by industry veterans Jeremiah Grossman (Chief Executive Officer), Robert Hansen (Chief Technology Officer), Heather Konold (Chief Operations Officer), and Lex Arquette (Chief Product Officer).

Grossman, who co-founded WhiteHat Security and Bit Discovery together with Arquette, previously served as Chief of Security Strategy at SentinelOne. Bit Discovery was acquired by Tenable in 2023.

The startup is developing vulnerability scanning and attack surface management technology that is fully integrated and which relies on exploitation evidence to help organizations focus on addressing those vulnerabilities that are targeted in the wild.

According to Root Evidence, its solution allows security teams to prioritize remediation efforts on the less than 1% of security defects that ...