Raven, a cybersecurity startup that protects cloud-native applications at runtime, has emerged from stealth mode with $20 million in combined seed and post-seed funding.
The investment rounds were led by Norwest and Elron Ventures, respectively, with additional support from CyberFuture, Dnipro VC, Jibe Ventures, RedSeed, SentinelOne, Unusual Ventures, UpWest, and angel investors.
Founded in 2023 by Israeli cyber intelligence veterans, Palo Alto, California-based Raven has built a platform that observes applications at runtime to detect anomalous behavior and block it.
By analyzing code behavior within the running application, the startup says, the platform can stop exploits and malicious code, preventing cyberattacks in real time even if no known vulnerabilities exist.
The platform also uncovers AI agents running in production, monitors them to uncover risky behavior, and can block unsafe actions, while providing security teams with visibility into agents’ owners, code changes, and authors.
Raven will use the funding to accelerate product development, grow its research and engineering teams, and scale its go-to-market efforts.
“In an era where AI tools can identify and exploit vulnerabilities at unprecedented scale and speed, organizations can no longer rely solely on signatures or on CVEs published after the fact,” said Raven CEO and co-founder Roi Abitboul.
“We founded RAVEN.IO to enable organizations to precisely prevent attacks and to truly understand, in real time, what is happening inside their applications, without compromising performance or business continuity,” Abitboul added.
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