Why Cyber Deals Keep Surging Despite AI Market Swings

Altitude Cyber's Domenic Perri on Why AI-Native Security Startups Draw Record Deals Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • March 28, 2026

Agentic artificial intelligence is solving one of cybersecurity's most stubborn problems: alert fatigue. With roughly half of all SOC alerts going unreviewed, AI-driven autonomous systems are emerging as the fastest path from reactive defense to real-time threat response, said Domenic Perri, co-founder and partner at Altitude Cyber.

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That transition has fueled a wave of investor conviction. Perri said AI-native startups, built from scratch in the current threat era, without legacy architecture, are attracting outsized bets from investors.

"Investors view these new AI security companies as potentially the next Wiz or the next CrowdStrike. They are born in this new era, solving new problems in AI that could represent new categories or even a new platform," Perri said ...