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Frontier AI lab building foundation models for defensive cybersecurity.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Seed
$60M · August 2026
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$60M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
seed · Tel Aviv, Israel / San Francisco, California
Overview
Corma is a Tel Aviv and San Francisco cybersecurity AI lab founded in 2025. It is training a foundation model purpose-built for defensive security work — correlating logs, events, and network signals and powering AI agents that operate like an expandable security workforce. CEO Alon Pluda’s team combines DeepMind/Google AI researchers with Unit 8200 and elite cyber operators. In August 2026 Corma raised a $60 million seed led by Sequoia Capital with Khosla Ventures and Coatue, citing Fortune 100/500 deployments within weeks of launch.
Why Corma is interesting
$60M seed (Aug 2026) led by Sequoia with Khosla and Coatue — financing a defensive foundation model because general-purpose AI already helps attackers more than SOC teams.
Product & use cases
Defensive cybersecurity foundation model powering AI agents that enterprises onboard like a new security team member across SOC workflows.
- Hunt and correlate threats across enterprise security telemetry
- Accelerate incident response with AI-native defensive agents
- Expand coverage across security functions without linear headcount
Key facts
- Seed (Aug 2026): $60M led by Sequoia (/fund/sequoia) with Khosla Ventures (/fund/khosla-ventures) and Coatue (/fund/coatue)
- Company sims: AI attackers ~88% success vs ~12% detection when same model class defends (proprietary research)
- Early deploy claim: >94% faster threat response; 15× coverage expansion (company)
- Team: DeepMind/Google AI + Israel Unit 8200 cyber talent
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Domain foundation model for defense (not a general LLM wrapper) plus offense-aware talent that understands how AI attack chains actually run.
Offense-side AI tooling is well funded; Corma bets the scarce layer is a model trained for defensive correlation and remediation at machine speed.
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Horizon3 / NodeZero adjacent
Continuous offensive testing of customer estates.
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Neo / Straiker / Zenity adjacent
Agent security and governance control planes.
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SIEM / XDR incumbents incumbent
Detection productized as dashboards; not defensive foundation-model labs.
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