The team that built Microsoft’s Security Copilot just raised $100M to stop attacks before they happen
For most of the past decade, the security industry quietly gave up on prevention. Breaches were treated as inevitable, and the money went into detecting and cleaning up the mess afterwards. A new startup from two veterans of that industry says AI has made stopping the attack in the first place possible again, and investors have handed it $100m to prove it.
Ent, founded by Elias ‘Lou’ Manousos and Brandon Dixon, came out of stealth on 16 June with a $100m seed round led by Decibel. Sequoia, Crosspoint Capital Partners, Craft Ventures, Shield Capital, Felicis, and In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture arm, also took part, in what SiliconANGLE called one of the largest seed rounds in cybersecurity history.
The founders know the territory. The pair built RiskIQ, sold it to Microsoft in 2021 in a deal SiliconANGLE puts at more than $500m, and then helped create Microsoft Security Copilot. Their new...
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