Corma Raises $60M for Defensive Cybersecurity AI Model

Corma, a cybersecurity startup, has emerged from stealth mode with $60 million in seed funding to develop an artificial intelligence foundation model built exclusively for defensive cybersecurity operations. The company, founded in 2025 and headquartered in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, announced the funding on August 11, 2026. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Coatue.

The funding comes as the cybersecurity industry grapples with a growing imbalance between the capabilities of AI-powered attackers and the tools available for defense. Corma's research highlights this gap through simulations modeled on Fortune 500 environments. In hundreds of tests using leading AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic, the models were first tasked with attacking simulated organizations and planting persistent threats. When the same models were then asked to defend and find the threats they had created, the AI attackers succeeded in 88 percent of cases, while the defenders detected only 12 percent.

This asymmetry underscores the core problem Corma aims to solve. While general-purpose AI models have become proficient at coding and reasoning tasks that...