New agentic platform allows companies to continuously find and close exposure gaps through coordinated use of AI agents and manual controls
Surf AI, the agentic operations platform for modern security teams, announced its launch and $57 million in funding to accelerate the development of its AI-native security execution offerings. The round was led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Cyberstarts and Boldstart Ventures. The funding will support continued investment in product development, team expansion, and scaling for additional enterprise adoption. Surf AI was founded in 2024 by a team of seasoned leaders in the Israeli cybersecurity ecosystem, including Yair Grindlinger, Elad Horn, Roie Cohen Duwek, Avner Gideoni, and Brenton Gumucio.
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“We built Surf AI to operationalize the entire security program with AI… Surf AI connects the context, drives the remediation, and keeps your team in control at every step.”
Security teams play a central role in protecting modern enterprises, yet the way security work gets done has not kept pace with the complexity of environments. Risk is spread across identities, cloud infrastructure, data, and business systems, while ownership and execution are fragmented across tools and teams. Additionally, as AI accelerates the pace and complexity of attacks and shrinks response windows, companies are being asked to reduce risk continuously using operating models that were never designed for that reality.
Surf AI addresses these challenges by operationalizing security programs through a single agentic platform that connects the business context and data scattered across an organization’s systems. The company’s state-of-the-art platform reads signals from identity, cloud, security, data, HR, and IT tools to build a living context graph that links assets, owners, permissions, and dependencies. It also prioritizes risk by real business impact and coordinates remediation through goal-oriented workflows, all with specialized AI agents driving execution under human oversight. Finally, context is preserved as work progresses, allowing teams to act continuously and safely without repeated handoffs or rework.
“We built Surf AI to operationalize the entire security program with AI,” said Yair Grindlinger, CEO and Co-Founder of Surf 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.”
“AI is dramatically increasing the speed and sophistication of attackers, and security teams need fundamentally new operating models to keep up,” said Philippe Botteri, Partner at Accel. “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.”
“We backed the Surf AI team at seed as the founders have already successfully scaled a cybersecurity business to hundreds of millions in revenue,” said Gili Raanan, Founder of Cyberstarts. “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.”
“Security leaders are under pressure to reduce risk continuously with fewer resources,” said Ed Sim, Founder and General Partner at Boldstart Ventures. “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.”
Across early client deployments, Surf AI has helped organizations recover nearly $1 million in excess SaaS license spend, disable thousands of dormant and orphaned accounts, remediate significant certificate risks, and automate identity enforcement workflows across users at enterprise scale.
“Surf AI combines advanced analytics with agentic intelligence to convert business context into action,” said Erik Hart, Chief Information Security Officer at Cushman & Wakefield. “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.”
Surf AI is actively onboarding enterprise technology clients and is already working with global organizations, including Fortune 500 companies. The company is also hiring engineers and security leaders in the U.S. and Israel who are interested in building the next generation platform for security operations.
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