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title: "FAZE Security’s $6M Seed: New Era Bets on Agentic Red Teams"
description: "Ex-CYTRIX FAZE emerged from stealth on Sep 11, 2026 with $6M seed led by New Era Capital Partners — already claiming 50 enterprise customers and ~20× ARR growth for continuous AI offensive security."
date: 2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z
source: https://venturecapitaltracker.com/2026-faze-security-6m-seed-new-era-agentic-red-team
---

# FAZE Security’s $6M Seed: New Era Bets on Agentic Red Teams

> Ex-CYTRIX FAZE emerged from stealth on Sep 11, 2026 with $6M seed led by New Era Capital Partners — already claiming 50 enterprise customers and ~20× ARR growth for continuous AI offensive security.

**[FAZE Security](/startup/faze-security)** emerged from stealth on **September 11, 2026** with **$6 million** seed funding led by **New Era Capital Partners**, with **Lockstep VC** participating (PR Newswire; Pulse2). Valuation was **not disclosed**. The company was previously known as **CYTRIX**.

For comparable companies and investment activity, see VCT's [2026 cybersecurity funding landscape](/cybersecurity-funding-startups-2026).

Scanners invent severity scores. Attackers invent exploit paths. FAZE is selling continuous agents that try the second thing and keep trying until the first thing is actually fixed.

## Key facts

| Field | Detail |
| --- | --- |
| Company | [FAZE Security](/startup/faze-security) ([faze.security](https://faze.security)) |
| Round | **$6M** seed |
| Lead | New Era Capital Partners (partner Ziv Conen quoted) |
| Also | Lockstep VC |
| Prior name | CYTRIX |
| Traction (company) | **50** enterprise customers incl. Fortune 500; ~**20×** ARR growth in **18** months |
| Outcome claims (company) | Near-zero false positives; **>50%** faster MTTR vs scanners / point-in-time pen tests |

## Who uses the product — and for what job

**Users:** enterprise AppSec / offensive security / cloud security teams that still depend on annual pen tests and noisy scanners.

**Job:** continuously probe web apps, APIs, and cloud environments within defined limits → prove exploitability → assign owners and remediation → **retest automatically** until the exploit fails.

Unlike CVSS-first tooling, FAZE says agents rank findings by demonstrated business impact. Treat ARR and MTTR claims as **company-reported** until customers publish independent diligence.

## Why now

- AI speeds both attackers and developers — the Black Hat conversation FAZE’s orbit has been pushing.
- Point-in-time pen tests cannot match release cadence; continuous offensive coverage becomes a budget line.
- Same September cyber tape as agent-governance names like [Cymphony](/2026-cymphony-25m-series-a-sequoia-ai-agent-security) — buyers are funding control planes for AI-era attack surfaces, whether identity graph or red team.

## Why New Era — portfolio fit

New Era Capital Partners is an Israel-leaning growth/venture firm comfortable with cyber technical founders. Conen’s quote emphasizes proprietary white-hat attack data plus agentic coverage across discovery → retest — a **data moat + product** story, not a wrapper on a public LLM.

A **$6M** seed after **50** enterprises and claimed **20×** ARR is the anomaly: either the round is understated relative to traction, or prior capital/revenue already carried the company. Diligence should separate seed label from growth proof.

*New Era Capital Partners and Lockstep VC have *

## Competitive map

| Category | Examples | FAZE claim |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Scanners / ASPM | Classic SAST/DAST vendors | Lower noise via exploit proof |
| Pen-test shops | Point-in-time human teams | Continuous coverage + retest loop |
| Agentic security peers | Emerging red-team automation | Orchestration + white-hat dataset story |

## What to watch

- Named Fortune 500 references beyond “several.”
- Independent validation of false-positive and MTTR claims.
- Whether the next round prices like Series A growth cyber.

## Sources

- [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/faze-security-emerged-from-stealth-today-with-50-enterprise-customers-including-several-fortune-500-companies-and-20x-arr-growth-in-18-months-the-company-also-announced-6m-in-seed-funding-led-by-new-era-capital-partners-with--302875578.html)
- [Pulse2](https://pulse2.com/faze-security-raises-6-million-seed-round-after-reaching-50-enterprise-customers/)
- Related: [Cymphony $25M](/2026-cymphony-25m-series-a-sequoia-ai-agent-security) · Day tape: [Sep 9–12 roundup](/2026-september-9-12-investment-news-perry-wint-aqua-faze-ivex)

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