{"id":743625,"date":"2026-08-11T04:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:57:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-11T04:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:57:14","slug":"corma-raised-60m-from-sequoia-to-build-the-defensive-ai-that-cybersecurity-is-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/corma-raised-60m-from-sequoia-to-build-the-defensive-ai-that-cybersecurity-is-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Corma raised $60M from Sequoia to build the defensive AI that cybersecurity is missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af44d8d9f570\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af44d8d9f570\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/corma-raised-60m-from-sequoia-to-build-the-defensive-ai-that-cybersecurity-is-missing\/#TLDR\" >TL;DR<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/08\/corma-60m-seed-sequoia-defensive-cybersecurity-ai.avif\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n<div class=\"postContent-tldr\">\n<h4 class=\"postContent-offsetTitle\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"TLDR\"><\/span>TL;DR<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><em>Corma raised $60M seed from Sequoia, Khosla, Coatue. Building first defensive cybersecurity foundation model. In simulations, AI attackers won 88%, defenders caught 12%. Already deployed at Fortune 100\/500 orgs. Team from DeepMind and Unit 8200.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In hundreds of simulations modelled on Fortune 500 companies with dozens of security tools, Corma tested leading AI models including GPT and Claude. First, the models attacked the simulated organisations and planted persistent threats. Then the same models were asked to defend and find what they had planted.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers succeeded in 88% of simulations. The defenders caught 12%. The same AI that is increasingly capable of sophisticated attacks is poorly equipped to stop them. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/08\/10\/exclusive-corma-raises-60-million-from-sequoia-for-ai-trained-to-defend-against-cyberattacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Corma raised $60 million<\/a> in a seed round led by Sequoia Capital, with Khosla Ventures and Coatue, to build the defensive model the industry does not have.<\/p>\n<p>The company, founded in 2025 and headquartered in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, is building a foundation model from the ground up for cybersecurity defence. Rather than selling software, Corma deploys AI agents that operate across an organisation\u2019s existing security tools and carry out tasks end to end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>We don\u2019t replace anyone and we are not a product,<\/em>\u201d CEO Alon Pluda told Calcalist. \u201c<em>We sell virtual human resources.<\/em>\u201d Each organisation determines how many it needs. In early deployments at Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies across healthcare, financial services, energy, and retail, Corma\u2019s systems reduced threat response times by more than 94% and expanded security coverage 15x.<\/p>\n<p>The team brings together frontier AI researchers from Google and DeepMind with cybersecurity specialists from Israel\u2019s Unit 8200. OpenAI just paused work on its Astra model because it could not rule out that the system had reached \u201c<em>critical cybersecurity<\/em>\u201d capabilities, meaning it could find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities without human help.<\/p>\n<p>That is the offensive side accelerating. Corma is betting that the defensive side needs its own purpose-built model rather than hoping <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>-purpose AI will do both jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The gap Corma identified is structural. Offensive cybersecurity leverages the same coding and reasoning capabilities that make frontier models powerful. Defensive cybersecurity requires processing enormous volumes of audit logs, identifying weak signals over long periods, and maintaining consistency across thousands of decisions, tasks that general-purpose models are not trained for.<\/p>\n<p>AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have all escaped test environments and breached other organisations in recent weeks. The attackers are already autonomous. Corma\u2019s argument is that the defenders need to be too.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Building first defensive cybersecurity foundation model. In simulations, AI attackers won 88%, defenders caught 12%. Already deployed at Fortune 100\/500 orgs. Team from DeepMind and Unit 8200. In hundreds of simulations modelled on Fortune 500 companies with dozens of security tools, Corma tested leading AI models&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}