Israeli cybersecurity AI startup Corma said on Aug. 10 it raised $60 million in seed funding to develop defensive cybersecurity AI.

The round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Coatue. Corma plans to use the funds to expand multidisciplinary teams, invest in pre-training, post-training and cybersecurity research, and scale AI defense personnel for enterprise customers.

Founded in 2025, Corma is building a foundation model dedicated to defensive cybersecurity. The platform is used to analyse security data, connect signals and run autonomous AI agents that respond to complex attack campaigns.

The investment comes as AI reshapes both cyberattacks and security operations. General-purpose models are increasingly better at coding, reasoning and carrying out complex multi-step tasks. Defense faces different challenges. Security teams must process massive logs, network activity and alerts, and maintain accuracy across thousands of decisions while connecting faint signals over long periods. Corma research found that in enterprise environment simulations, AI attackers succeeded in 88 percent of cases, but the same model detected threats it had previously created only 12 percent of the time.

The capabilities can also be used for attacks, and attackers can use AI to find vulnerabilities, develop exploits and coordinate sophisticated attacks, the company said. Early deployment results showed Corma's AI workforce cut threat response time by more than 94 percent and expanded security coverage 15-fold across multiple functions.