Corma’s $60M Seed: Sequoia Bets on a Foundation Model for Defense, Not Offense
Sequoia led Corma’s $60M seed with Khosla and Coatue — a Tel Aviv/SF lab building defensive cybersecurity foundation models as AI attackers pull ahead.
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