Guardio, a consumer cybersecurity company that protects individuals rather than their devices from online scams and attacks, has reached a valuation of $1.1bn by raising $40m.
The milestone follows a $40m funding round that drew backing from Wiz co-founder and CEO Assaf Rappaport, alongside existing backers ION Crossover Partners, Union Tech Ventures, Vintage Investment Partners, Cerca Partners and Emerge Ventures. The new capital lifts Guardio’s total funding raised to date to $167m.
Guardio has expanded revenue by more than 100% year-on-year for four consecutive years, and now serves one million paying customers while generating $150m in annual recurring revenue. The business plans to direct the fresh capital towards broadening and deepening its protection suite for consumers’ overall digital footprint.
The raise arrives as artificial intelligence lowers the barrier to entry for cybercrime, giving individual fraudsters access to tactics once reserved for organised hacking operations. Mass personalised phishing campaigns, convincing brand impersonations and deepfake voice calls have all become far cheaper and easier to run, leaving everyday consumers increasingly exposed.
Rather than focusing on securing hardware, Guardio tracks messages, email, calls and web browsing to intercept scams before a victim can act on them.
Its platform also protects digital accounts and assets, applying targeted safeguards to reduce the chances of a successful attack, and can identify scam attempts that span several devices and communication channels at once, such as a phone call that leads to malware being installed on a computer. Together, these capabilities aim to give ordinary consumers a standard of protection comparable to what a large enterprise security team would provide.
Nearly three in four US adults reported experiencing a scam or attack in the past year, according to figures cited in the announcement, while the FBI recorded 22,000 AI-related complaints and put total US cybercrime losses at a record $20.9bn.
Guardio CEO and co-founder Amos Peled said, “Scammers stopped hacking computers years ago – they hack people, and with AI, it’s cheap and easy. Cybercrime is essentially democratized. Nobody is losing their savings to a virus. People are losing savings to a scam that AI wrote, voiced and dialed – while their antivirus reports that their laptop is perfectly clean.
“Consumer security has to be rebuilt around the person, not the device. That’s what one million people are already paying us for, and this round is a stepping stone to bring it to the tens of millions who are still protected by software built for a decade ago.”
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