Surf AI, an agentic operations platform built for modern security teams, has officially launched with $57m in funding aimed at accelerating the development of its AI-native security execution capabilities.
The raise was led by Accel, with participation from existing backers Cyberstarts and Boldstart Ventures. The capital will be deployed across product development, team expansion, and scaling efforts to drive further enterprise adoption.
Founded in 2024 by veterans of the Israeli cybersecurity ecosystem — Yair Grindlinger, Elad Horn, Roie Cohen Duwek, Avner Gideoni, and Brenton Gumucio — the company was built to address a growing disconnect between the complexity of modern security environments and the operating models tasked with managing them. Risk today is spread across identities, cloud infrastructure, data, and business systems, whilst ownership and execution remain fragmented across tools and teams. The accelerating pace of AI-driven attacks has only sharpened that challenge, compressing response windows and raising the stakes for organisations that were never designed to operate at this tempo.
Surf AI’s platform seeks to resolve this by consolidating security operations through a single agentic layer that pulls business context and data from across an organisation’s systems. It reads signals from identity, cloud, security, data, HR, and IT tools to construct a living context graph linking assets, owners, permissions, and dependencies. From there, it prioritises risk by real business impact and coordinates remediation through goal-oriented workflows, with specialised AI agents driving execution under human oversight. Crucially, context is preserved as work progresses, allowing teams to act continuously without repeated handoffs or rework.
The new funding will support continued investment in product development, headcount growth, and broader enterprise scaling, as the company moves to onboard additional clients across the US and Israel.
In early client deployments, Surf AI has already demonstrated tangible results — helping organisations recover nearly $1m in excess SaaS licence spend, disable thousands of dormant and orphaned accounts, remediate significant certificate risks, and automate identity enforcement workflows at enterprise scale. The company is currently working with global organisations including Fortune 500 companies, and is actively recruiting engineers and security leaders.
Surf AI CEO and co-founder Yair Grindlinger said, “We built Surf AI to operationalize the entire security program with AI. Proactive security hygiene is exactly what we’re encouraging, and our platform is designed to continuously find and close the exposure gaps that teams have always known about but didn’t have the time or resources to address. Surf AI connects the context, drives the remediation, and keeps your team in control at every step.”
Accel partner Philippe Botteri said, “AI is dramatically increasing the speed and sophistication of attackers, and security teams need fundamentally new operating models to keep up. The Surf AI team is building an agentic platform to significantly enhance the productivity of security teams and make their organisation resilient to this new threat landscape.”
Cyberstarts founder Gili Raanan said, “We backed the Surf AI team at seed as the founders have already successfully scaled a cybersecurity business to hundreds of millions in revenue. With that experience at Surf AI, they are building an agentic security platform designed for a world where defenders need AI systems that can reason, adapt, and operate at an enterprise scale.”
Boldstart Ventures founder and general partner Ed Sim said, “Security leaders are under pressure to reduce risk continuously with fewer resources. Too many enterprises are spending heavily on tools that only address problems on the surface. We backed Surf AI from inception because it flips that model with an agentic execution layer for security, turning fragmented context into coordinated action that helps CISOs reduce risk while saving time, effort, and costs.”
Cushman & Wakefield chief information security officer Erik Hart said, “Surf AI combines advanced analytics with agentic intelligence to convert business context into action. It’s helped us operate continuously at scale, lower risk, optimize costs, and improve our security posture, producing measurable ROI in weeks and enabling teams to scale their impact with speed and confidence.”
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