AegisAI, a cybersecurity firm, has announced its official launch alongside a major funding round. The company has positioned itself at the forefront of the fight against rising AI-powered email threats.
The firm has secured $13m in seed funding. The investment was led by Accel and Foundation Capital, with the capital earmarked to support product development, engineering hires and go-to-market expansion as AegisAI scales its platform.
The company is tackling a growing issue for enterprises: the rapid rise of AI-generated phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. Traditional rule-based systems are struggling to keep up as attackers increasingly rotate graphics, messaging, and supporting content to create more convincing lures. AegisAI aims to counter this shift by deploying autonomous AI agents that analyse, detect, and neutralise threats before they reach inboxes, while reducing false positives by up to 90%.
Funding will be used to accelerate the development of its autonomous email security platform, expand the engineering team, and grow its commercial presence. The platform integrates with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace through API connections, offering enterprises a seamless deployment process.
AegisAI’s founders bring years of frontline cybersecurity expertise from Google, where they protected billions of users against online threats. Their experience has shaped the company’s approach, which rejects reliance on static rules and extensive user training in favour of a network of continuously learning AI agents that share intelligence across organisations.
Cy Khormaee, co-founder and CEO at AegisAI said, “We’ve spent almost a decade each protecting billions of users at Google, we’ve seen firsthand how enterprise email defenses are falling behind. We’re seeing the sophistication of AI powered attacks increase rapidly while existing email security defences are standing still. This leaves security leaders without the tools they need to defend their organizations.”
Ryan Luo, CTO and co-founder of AegisAI said, “We don’t believe in creating more alerts — we believe in creating better security outcomes. Our mission is to protect organizations without adding operational burden and to give security teams the reliable intelligence they need to focus on what matters most.”
AegisAI’s technology has already been adopted by clients such as Mesh and Lokker. Bam Azizi, CEO at Mesh, said, “As a former security founder, I’ve seen the cat-and-mouse game play out for decades—especially in email security, where attackers constantly evolve to trick employees. Aegis is the first solution that truly changes the game. They came into Mesh and stopped attackers in their tracks. Our dashboard shows everything from fuzzing attempts to AI-generated spear phishing and BEC, and Aegis catches them all—without my team wasting time managing rules.”
Ian Cohen, CEO at Lokker, added, “We immediately saw threats to our accounting, engineering, and executives teams in the dashboard. Aegis enabled us to see and stop these threats without our team manually hunting them down.”
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