Kai has raised $125 million in funding as it prepares to launch its AI-powered cybersecurity platform designed to address the growing scale and complexity of modern cyber threats.
The investment includes seed and Series A funding led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from N47 and several strategic investors. The company is headquartered in San Jose and is focused on combining artificial intelligence with cybersecurity to develop faster and more adaptive cyber defense systems.
Kai was founded by cybersecurity entrepreneurs Galina Antova and Damiano Bolzoni, both of whom previously built successful companies in the cybersecurity sector. Antova is a co-founder of Claroty, a firm known for securing industrial and operational technology environments. Bolzoni co-founded SecurityMatters, an operational technology cybersecurity company that was acquired by Forescout Technologies in 2018.
The new company aims to create a unified cyber defense platform for enterprise systems. At the core of Kai’s technology is what it describes as an agentic AI cybersecurity platform capable of autonomously identifying, analysing and responding to cyber threats with minimal human intervention.
Unlike traditional security tools that operate in separate silos, Kai’s platform integrates multiple security functions into a single pipeline. Its AI agents are designed to reason, adapt and take action across areas such as threat intelligence, exposure management, vulnerability assessment and incident response.
The company argues that many organisations currently rely on fragmented security tools and dashboards, which can slow response times and increase the risk of cyber incidents. By using autonomous AI agents to automate and coordinate security workflows across enterprise environments, Kai aims to enable faster and more proactive cyber defence in an era of rapidly evolving AI-driven attacks.
