# AegisAI Raises $36 Million Series A for AI-Powered Phishing Defense

> AegisAI has raised a $36 million Series A led by Battery Ventures to fight a threat that AI itself has made worse: increasingly convincing, machine-generated phishing emails. Founded by former Google security executives Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, the company uses its own AI agents to detect the AI-crafted spear-phishing attacks that now slip past traditional filters, and the round brings its total funding to roughly $49 million. The pitch lands because the problem is escalating fast. Generative models have made it trivial to produce personalized, grammatically flawless lures at scale, eroding the tell-tale signs employees were once trained to spot. AegisAI's answer is to meet AI attacks with AI defense, and it has moved quickly, signing customers including Mesh, LangChain, and Lokker less than a year after launch. The founders' pedigree from Google's security ranks and backing from Battery Ventures, Accel, and Foundation Capital signal investor conviction that email, still the front door for most breaches, needs a new generation of defenses built for the age of generative attacks.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: The AI Insider · Published Wednesday, August 5, 2026_

## Wortins' read

AegisAI has raised a $36 million Series A led by Battery Ventures to fight a threat that AI itself has made worse: increasingly convincing, machine-generated phishing emails. Founded by former Google security executives Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, the company uses its own AI agents to detect the AI-crafted spear-phishing attacks that now slip past traditional filters, and the round brings its total funding to roughly $49 million. The pitch lands because the problem is escalating fast. Generative models have made it trivial to produce personalized, grammatically flawless lures at scale, eroding the tell-tale signs employees were once trained to spot. AegisAI's answer is to meet AI attacks with AI defense, and it has moved quickly, signing customers including Mesh, LangChain, and Lokker less than a year after launch. The founders' pedigree from Google's security ranks and backing from Battery Ventures, Accel, and Foundation Capital signal investor conviction that email, still the front door for most breaches, needs a new generation of defenses built for the age of generative attacks.

## Source

[Read the full story at The AI Insider](https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/08/03/aegisai-announces-36m-series-a-to-fight-ai-powered-email-attacks-with-ai-agents/)

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