Kai Launches Agentic AI Security Platform With $125M Funding

Startup Platform Targets Autonomous Detection and Exposure Management Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • March 11, 2026

A startup led by Claroty's co-founder emerged from stealth with $125 million to integrate security workflows into a unified platform powered by autonomous artificial intelligence agents.

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The Evolution Equity Partners funding will help San Jose, California-based Kai create a security platform that combines exposure management, threat intelligence, detection engineering and remediation into a single system capable of operating at machine speed, said co-founder and CEO Galina Antova. The funding will primarily support expansion of the company's AI research team and engineering workforce.

"We wanted to build as comprehensive and as integrated a platform from day one as possible," Antova told Information Security Media Group. "That is the ambition. The money really allows us to get ...