Cybersecurity startup Root Evidence today announced its launch with $12.5 million raised in an oversubscribed seed round led by Ballistic Ventures. Grossman Ventures and others provided additional financial support.
Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, Root Evidence was founded in July 2025 by industry veterans Jeremiah Grossman (Chief Executive Officer), Robert Hansen (Chief Technology Officer), Heather Konold (Chief Operations Officer), and Lex Arquette (Chief Product Officer).
Grossman, who co-founded WhiteHat Security and Bit Discovery together with Arquette, previously served as Chief of Security Strategy at SentinelOne. Bit Discovery was acquired by Tenable in 2023.
The startup is developing vulnerability scanning and attack surface management technology that is fully integrated and which relies on exploitation evidence to help organizations focus on addressing those vulnerabilities that are targeted in the wild.
According to Root Evidence, its solution allows security teams to prioritize remediation efforts on the less than 1% of security defects that matter, reduce the likelihood of a breach, and calculate the financial risks.
Root Evidence takes an evidence-based approach to security, prioritizing decisions using strong evidence of risk, instead of scanning a list of flaws known to be exploited or relying on a severity scoring system.
“Success in vulnerability management is no longer about who can report the most theoretical vulnerabilities, no matter how technically severe. Organizations need proof, with evidence, of which vulnerabilities are known to cause the most damage if left unaddressed, to focus on remediating those first. That’s what Root Evidence does,” Root Evidence CTO Robert Hansen said.
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