Exclusive: Artemis raises $70M to help fight AI-powered attacks with AI |
Exclusive: Artemis raises $70M to help fight AI-powered attacks with AI
Artemis, a new cybersecurity startup trying to help defenders fight AI-powered attacks with AI, emerged from stealth today, securing $70 million in venture capital funding.
Felicis led the Series A with returning investors First Round Capital and Brightmind. The round was also joined by Theory VC and prominent cybersecurity industry leaders, including founders of Demisto and Abnormal AI, the former CEO and CTO of Splunk, and senior executives from CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, and Okta.
The company did not disclose the valuation it achieved in the new funding round, but a spokesperson said “they have closed a few seven-figure deals and are expecting multi-million dollars in ARR before the end of 2026.” Clients already include Mercury, Wix, Lemonade and Abnormal AI.
Hackers are now using AI to carry out attacks at machine speed—sometimes in minutes—while traditional security tools struggle to keep up, said CEO Shachar Hirshberg, a former AWS product leader who founded the company six months ago with CTO Dan Shiebler, previously head of AI at Abnormal Security and earlier a machine learning leader at Twitter. Most companies........