RAD Security, a leader in securing cloud-focused infrastructure, announced a $14 million Series A funding round, led by Cheyenne Ventures with participation from new investors Forgepoint Capital, Lytical Ventures, and Akamai and existing investors .406 Ventures, Vertex Ventures, and Gula Tech Adventures.
This funding round will advance the expansion of RAD Security’s flagship product: the world’s first complete AI-driven defense platform. And this technology builds on RAD Security’s battle-tested Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) solution, enhancing its capabilities with advanced AI-driven solutions to ensure enterprises’ cloud and AI deployments remain secure and compliant as they grow and adapt.
RAD Security’s AI-based platform enables customers to ingest and analyze data from multiple sources and query security tools, enabling smart triage tactics and drastically reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR). As the company and platform continue to grow, RAD Security’s remains focused on creating a future where security shifts from a blocker to an enabler that drives technology adoption while minimizing business risk.
As AI adoption accelerates, many organizations face significant risks from the use of AI tools within an organization, including the unchecked spread of “shadow AI” deployed without central authorization or management. And RAD Security’s platform offers the first solution to offer real-time and behavior-driven defense for AI systems and workloads—from infrastructure to models—while offering the critical visibility needed to identify modern threats, ensuring that all AI workloads remain compliant and secure. With continuous runtime monitoring and automation, RAD Security enhances detection, reduces alerts, and accelerates response times.
As AI adoption and risks evolve, the RAD platform will continue adapting and expanding, enhancing its agentic capabilities to address emerging needs, including:
- Security for AI and LLMs – Offers monitoring and detection capabilities for AI-related threats, including shadow AI, data exfiltration, prompt injection attacks, and compliance violations, ensuring enterprises can safely leverage AI technologies.
- Operational Efficiency for Security Teams – Reduces MTTR with AI-based insights and agent-based querying, helping vulnerability management and GRC teams to respond faster and more effectively.
- Cloud Detection and Response – Established behavioral baselines and detects deviations indicating malicious activity or insider threats, using runtime security and fingerprinting techniques—helping security teams to detect and analyze identities and unauthorized access across cloud and AI workloads, as well as anomalous behavior like data exfiltration, downtime, and rightsizing opportunities.
RAD Security will be scaling its marketing, sales, and strategic partnerships to expand its presence in key industries such as government, high-tech, fintech, insurance, and e-commerce, setting the stage for a bold 2025 go-to-market strategy. Last year, RAD Security was the only company selected from thousands of applicants in the RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox and the Blackhat Startup Spotlight Competition, where it received the audience choice award.
KEY QUOTES:
“With this investment, we’re not just enhancing cloud security—we’re addressing the future of AI security in real time. In multiple conversations with CISOs, we’ve uncovered that AI is now critical to business operations. But with that comes the need for security solutions that can evolve as your technology stack evolves.”
- Brooke Motta, Co-Founder and CEO of RAD Security
“One of the special things about RAD Security is they genuinely care about making us successful. We meet with them on a weekly basis. They take to heart that if there are any sort of missing capabilities, they’ll make sure that they add those to their next step cycle.”
- Rick Vadgama, a global CISO and cybersecurity and IT operations leader
“It’s rare to find teams so relentlessly dedicated to outcomes over fluff, and the innovations are non-stop. RAD Security is at the top of the list for organizations wanting to stay on the no-compromise forefront of cloud application security.”
- James Berthoty, analyst at Latio Tech
“The Total Addressable Market for this sector is projected to reach billions as businesses prioritize advanced, proactive security solutions. RAD Security’s real-time, behavior-based AI detection surpasses legacy security tools. As organizations face mounting challenges from cloud vulnerabilities, false positives, and limited resources, the need for RAD Security’s innovative approach has never been clearer. By leveraging RAD Security’s AI-powered platform, security teams can automate threat detection, governance, and response, enabling them to stay ahead of evolving AI-driven risks.”
- Gregory Eaton, Managing Director at Cheyenne Ventures
