Post by Jasper Masemann

Wow! $25 million Series A for Maze's agentic AI "vulnerability analysts", world-class #cybersecurity made in 🇪🇺 #Europe. The amazing team of Andy and Tomasz at Theory Ventures picked Harry, Santiago, and Adrian as the emerging winners for an independent operating system for modern vulnerability management. Dimitri and myself at 🍒 Cherry Ventures lead their seed just last summer and could not agree more. The team's pace of shipping features and customers' pull for the product is breathtaking. “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,” said Mandy Andress, CISO at Elastic. Why Maze matters: - Vulnerability backlogs are exploding—40 k new CVEs in 2024 alone, while the median time-to-exploit crashed from 63 days in 2019 to just 5 days in 2023. - 90 % of scanner findings are false positives, yet security teams still have to triage them. - Current rule-based tools can’t keep up and only robust, controllable, agentic AI systems can be the cure Maze’s agentic AI spins up thousands of autonomous “vulnerability analysts” that: - Ingest every finding from cloud scanners. - Investigate each one in the context of the customer's environment to discard the 90 % that can’t be exploited. - Surface the truly critical few—with the “why” attached. - Push one-click mitigations or PRs straight to the engineers who own the code The team at Maze can now move even faster to double-down on product, expand go-to-market and help security teams everywhere shrink the backlog and beat attackers to the punch. Onward! 🛡️✨ https://mazehq.com/ Huge thanks to Alex Mackenzie of Tapestry VC and Pietro Invernizzi for your support to the team and Cherry Ventures! #SeriesA #CyberSecurity #AI #VulnerabilityManagement #Startups Christian Meermann Filip Felician Dames Alexander Langholz-Baikousis Dinika Mahtani Sophia Bendz Nadja Carina Reischel Katharina Baratta-Dragono Julius de Gruyter Bruno A. Wisniewski Tatiana Russo Juliette Berri