Corma has raised $60m in seed funding, with the round led by Sequoia Capital and joined by Khosla Ventures and Coatue.
The company, which already counts Fortune 100 clients among its customers, is building what it describes as the first foundation model designed specifically for defensive cybersecurity work.
The raise comes as Corma highlights a widening gap between offensive and defensive capabilities in AI-driven cybersecurity. According to research the company conducted using simulated enterprise environments modelled on Fortune 500 organisations and equipped with the security tools typically found in large companies, AI models tasked with attacking these environments succeeded 88% of the time.
When the same models were then asked to defend against the threats they themselves had planted, they detected just 12% of them.
Corma argues that general-purpose foundation models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have made rapid progress in coding and software reasoning, and that these same skills translate directly into offensive security work, since vulnerability research and exploit development are fundamentally code-reasoning tasks.
Defensive cybersecurity, by contrast, requires sifting through large volumes of security data such as audit logs, events and network flows, spotting weak signals across long timeframes, and maintaining consistency across large numbers of sequential decisions, a different skillset that Corma says current models have not been built to handle.
Corma’s platform is designed to be onboarded in a similar way to a new employee, with its AI agents then working across the breadth of defensive security functions once deployed. The company says its agents can continuously learn from the environments they are placed in and scale according to demand in a way that human teams alone cannot match.
Since its launch six weeks ago, Corma’s AI workforce has already been deployed across Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 organisations in sectors including healthcare, financial services, energy, critical infrastructure and retail. The company reports that these early deployments have cut threat response times by more than 94%, extended security coverage 15-fold across different security functions, and surfaced multi-stage attack campaigns that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.
Corma Co-founder and CEO Alon Pluda said, “The race to general intelligence in cybersecurity has already begun, and the attackers have a significant head start. AI-powered attacks are operating at a speed and sophistication that neither human teams, better tooling, nor general-purpose AI can match.
“It requires a complete AI-powered defensive workforce, built from the ground up for cybersecurity, that gives defenders the same speed, sophistication, and generalization that AI has already given attackers. Corma’s mission is to make sure the defenders win this race – and every challenge that comes next.”
Copyright © 2026 FinTech Global
