Clover Raises $36M to Automate Product Security Reviews

Startup Uses AI Agents to Support Proactive Security and Scale Development Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • December 9, 2025

A startup run by a former Dazz and Hysolate product leader emerged from stealth to automate and augment product security tasks for enterprise development teams.

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New York-based Clover Security plans to use the $36 million from Notable Capital and Team8 to shift product security from a reactive, scanner-based model to a proactive, design-led approach powered by AI, said co-founder and CEO Alon Kollmann. The company's flagship agent automates design and architecture reviews, easing the burden on lean security teams by collecting context, he said.

"What they've been doing is just very manual, repetitive work, trying to review documents, trying to provide guidance to developers, trying to train developers and product managers ...