Corma raises $60M to build AI for defensive cybersecurity

Corma emerged from stealth on Monday after raising $60 million in a seed round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Coatue. The startup was founded in 2025 and lists headquarters in Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

The company is building a foundation AI model engineered to process large volumes of security telemetry such as system events, audit logs and network traffic. The model links subtle anomaly signals across long timeframes to support threat assessment.

That architecture produces automated agents that integrate with an organization’s existing security stack and operate alongside human teams. The agents are designed to perform defensive tasks while learning continuously from the environments where they run, reducing the need for manual retraining for each deployment.

Corma reports the agents can detect and respond to complex threats, including multi-stage intrusions that unfold over days or weeks. In internal tests the company compared its approach with general-purpose AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic and found those models could be used to mount end-to-end attacks but failed to defend against the same attacks.

“AI-powered attacks are operating at a speed and sophistication that neither human teams, better tooling, nor general-purpose AI can match. It requires a complete AI-powered defensive workforce, built from the ground up for cybersecurity, that gives defenders the same speed, sophistication, and generalization that AI has already given attackers,” —Alon Pluda, co-founder and CEO.

Corma plans to use the funding to continue developing the foundation model and to deploy defensive agents into customer environments. The agents are designed to integrate with existing security tools and telemetry sources rather than replace current infrastructure, allowing organizations to retain human oversight while automating routine and complex defensive workflows.

Founders include Alon Pluda and other industry veterans. The dual headquarters reflect engineering and sales operations in both Israel and the United States. The $60 million seed round comes amid increased investment in cybersecurity startups focused on AI and runtime protection.

Corma did not disclose customer names or specific deployment timelines. The company plans to release further technical details and partnership announcements as the model moves into broader trials.