Cybersecurity startup Ent raises $100M seed round to use AI for attack prevention
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Cristian Dina
Summary
Ent, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Microsoft Security Copilot veterans Elias 'Lou' Manousos and Brandon Dixon, has raised a $100 million seed round led by Decibel to build AI-powered prevention-focused security solutions. The company argues that the security industry has spent the last decade focusing on detection and remediation rather than prevention, and that modern AI makes stopping attacks before they happen feasible again. The massive seed round also included Sequoia, Crosspoint Capital Partners, Craft Ventures, Shield Capital, Felicis, and other investors.
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· 3 pulledFor most of the past decade, the security industry quietly gave up on prevention.
Breaches were treated as inevitable, and the money went into detecting and cleaning up the mess afterwards.
A new startup from two veterans of that industry says AI has made stopping the attack in the first place possible again, and investors have handed it $100m to prove it.
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