Surf AI, an agentic operations platform focused on modern enterprise security, announced its launch alongside $57 million in funding to accelerate development and adoption of its AI-driven security execution platform. The funding round was led by Accel, with participation from Cyberstarts and Boldstart Ventures.
Founded in 2024 by cybersecurity leaders Yair Grindlinger, Elad Horn, Roie Cohen Duwek, Avner Gideoni, and Brenton Gumucio, the company aims to transform how enterprises manage and operationalize security in increasingly complex environments.
Surf AI’s platform is designed to address fragmentation across security tools, teams, and workflows. It aggregates signals from identity systems, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, HR, and IT tools to create a unified “context graph” that maps assets, permissions, dependencies, and ownership. Using this foundation, the platform prioritizes risks based on business impact and coordinates remediation through goal-driven workflows powered by specialized AI agents operating under human oversight.
The company positions its approach as a shift from reactive security management to continuous, proactive risk reduction. Its agentic system enables organizations to identify and resolve exposure gaps while maintaining control, auditability, and operational context across workflows.
According to the company, early deployments have already delivered measurable outcomes, including nearly $1 million in recovered SaaS license spend, removal of thousands of dormant or orphaned accounts, remediation of certificate-related risks, and automation of identity enforcement processes at enterprise scale.
Surf AI plans to use the funding to expand product development, grow its team, and scale adoption among enterprise customers. The company is already working with global organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, and is actively hiring across engineering and security roles in the U.S. and Israel.
KEY QUOTES:
“We built Surf AI to operationalize the entire security program with AI… Proactive security hygiene is exactly what we’re encouraging, and our platform is designed to continuously find and close the exposure gaps that teams have always known about but didn’t have the time or resources to address. Surf AI connects the context, drives the remediation, and keeps your team in control at every step.”
Yair Grindlinger, CEO And Co-Founder, Surf AI
“AI is dramatically increasing the speed and sophistication of attackers, and security teams need fundamentally new operating models to keep up. The Surf AI team is building an agentic platform to significantly enhance the productivity of security teams and make their organisation resilient to this new threat landscape.”
Philippe Botteri, Partner, Accel
“We backed the Surf AI team at seed as the founders have already successfully scaled a cybersecurity business to hundreds of millions in revenue. With that experience at Surf AI, they are building an agentic security platform designed for a world where defenders need AI systems that can reason, adapt, and operate at an enterprise scale.”
Gili Raanan, Founder, Cyberstarts
“Security leaders are under pressure to reduce risk continuously with fewer resources. Too many enterprises are spending heavily on tools that only address problems on the surface. We backed Surf AI from inception because it flips that model with an agentic execution layer for security, turning fragmented context into coordinated action that helps CISOs reduce risk while saving time, effort, and costs.”
Ed Sim, Founder And General Partner, Boldstart Ventures
“Surf AI combines advanced analytics with agentic intelligence to convert business context into action. It’s helped us operate continuously at scale, lower risk, optimize costs, and improve our security posture, producing measurable ROI in weeks and enabling teams to scale their impact with speed and confidence.”
Erik Hart, Chief Information Security Officer, Cushman & Wakefield
