Maze, a platform that utilizes AI agents to investigate and resolve cloud security vulnerabilities, announced a $25 million Series A round led by Theory Ventures, with participation from existing investors Cherry Ventures and Tapestry VC.
Vulnerabilities are a rapidly growing pain point for modern security teams. Last year, vulnerability exploitation increased by substantially, overtaking phishing among the top causes of security incidents. And the number of known vulnerabilities (CVEs) is also on the rise.
Maze has been built from the ground-up for taking full advantage of modern AI technology. And Maze’s AI agents were designed to operate and think like humans, instead of relying on pre-defined logic and rules. By deploying thousands of agents to investigate their customer’s cloud data, Maze can identify the tiny number of vulnerabilities that are exploitable in their environment and likely to cause a breach, resolving them automatically. Starting with an agent for investigating, triaging, and resolving cloud vulnerabilities, Maze is developing a comprehensive and AI-native security platform.
Founding team: Maze’s founding team includes Wetherald, Adrian Jozwik, and Santiago Castineira – who previously led product, design, and engineering teams at Tessian, Elastic, and Amazon. And together with a veteran team of former Meta, Adyen, and Nvidia engineers, they built Maze’s first AI agent by replicating the workflow of expert human analysts.
How the funding will be used: Happening less than a year after the company’s founding and 9 months after a $6 million seed round led by Cherry Ventures, this brings total funding to $31 million. Maze plans to continue growing its team and expand into new use cases for its AI-native security platform.
KEY QUOTES:
“Before starting Maze, we talked to hundreds of security professionals and heard the same complaint again and again – dealing with vulnerabilities is a nightmare. Security teams are already struggling today, and as attackers get their hands on AI, things are only going to get more difficult. While AI gives us the ability to build better security tools, it is also enabling bad actors to deliver complex attacks at scale. Our goal is to give security teams the tools they need to fight back.”
Harry Wetherald, Maze CEO and co-founder
“Maze’s product is almost too good to be true. It is a truly novel use of Agentic AI that goes well beyond automating manual workflows.”
Mandy Andress, CISO at Elastic
“To keep pace with attackers, security tools will need to be re-written to be AI-native. While today’s vulnerability management tools are built to aggregate data for human analysts, Maze is designed from the ground up for autonomous investigations and triage.”
Andy Triedman, Partner at Theory Ventures and the latest addition to the Maze Board
