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Tel Aviv- and San Francisco-based Corma, which develops AI models for defensive cybersecurity, emerges from stealth with a $60M seed led by Sequoia Capital (Emily Forlini/Fortune)
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Corma, a defensive cybersecurity AI company operating from Tel Aviv and San Francisco, emerged from stealth with a $60M seed round led by Sequoia Capital.
A $60M seed round is unusually large for that funding stage, indicating strong investor conviction that AI-native defensive security tools are a distinct and urgent category. For security teams, this signals that new tooling designed to counter AI-enabled threats is entering the market with significant capital behind it.
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Corma builds AI models specifically for defensive cybersecurity, framing its mission against threats enabled by widely available AI models.
Sequoia Capital led the $60M seed round, a figure well above typical seed-stage amounts.
The company operates from both Tel Aviv and San Francisco, combining Israeli security engineering talent with US venture and market access.
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