# Corma Raises $60M Seed for Defensive Cybersecurity AI

> Corma, a startup building frontier AI models purpose-built for defensive cybersecurity, has raised a $60 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital, with Khosla Ventures and Coatue Management also participating. Founded in 2025 with teams in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, the company is unusually well-funded for a seed-stage business. The pitch is timely. Corma says it deployed its first model to Fortune 100 and 500 companies about six weeks before announcing the round, and claims it cut threat response times by 94 percent and expanded coverage fifteenfold for those early customers. The round lands as AI cuts both ways in security. The same models that let attackers find and exploit vulnerabilities faster are being turned toward defense, and investors are betting the defensive side is a large market of its own. A seed this size, from this roster of backers, is a sign of how urgently enterprises want AI that plays goalkeeper rather than striker.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: Fortune · Published Tuesday, August 11, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Corma, a startup building frontier AI models purpose-built for defensive cybersecurity, has raised a $60 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital, with Khosla Ventures and Coatue Management also participating. Founded in 2025 with teams in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, the company is unusually well-funded for a seed-stage business. The pitch is timely. Corma says it deployed its first model to Fortune 100 and 500 companies about six weeks before announcing the round, and claims it cut threat response times by 94 percent and expanded coverage fifteenfold for those early customers. The round lands as AI cuts both ways in security. The same models that let attackers find and exploit vulnerabilities faster are being turned toward defense, and investors are betting the defensive side is a large market of its own. A seed this size, from this roster of backers, is a sign of how urgently enterprises want AI that plays goalkeeper rather than striker.

## Source

[Read the full story at Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/08/10/exclusive-corma-raises-60-million-from-sequoia-for-ai-trained-to-defend-against-cyberattacks/)

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