Maro, a cognitive security platform designed to tackle human risk in cybersecurity, has raised $4.3m in a seed funding round.
The investment came from Downing Capital Group and will support Maro’s plans for team expansion, product development, and the execution of its go-to-market strategy.
Founded in late 2024, Maro aims to help security leaders proactively manage threats stemming from human error, insider risk, and ungoverned AI usage. Unlike traditional tools that rely heavily on training, Maro’s platform offers real-time, browser-level behavioural interventions to prevent risky actions from escalating into security incidents.
Maro’s approach has already gained traction, with the company collaborating with 50 CISO and CIO leaders across FinTech, health tech, and retail. These security professionals highlighted AI usage governance, targeted social engineering, and insider threats as the most pressing human risk areas—problems Maro’s platform is built to address.
Maro CEO Jadon Montero said,”Maro was born from our years spent inside broken security workflows where SOC analysts didn’t have time to speak directly to every employee who urgently needed their help after legacy tools failed to stop the employee from taking a risky action.”
“The acceleration of generative AI, coupled with remote work and shadow software as a service (SaaS), exponentially increases the risk that users run afoul of company policy without even knowing it. With Maro, governance, risk, and compliance happen in the moment so that human risk is managed and mitigated – before issues even reach the SOC.”
Downing Capital Group CEO Jesse Downing said, “When stress levels are high and attackers use that opportunity to manipulate your workforce into taking risky actions, Maro protects how people think, decide, and act. Maro’s founding team has deep cybersecurity experience solving human-focused problems, working together across three companies, including several with successful exits.”
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