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AI cybersecurity startup Novee emerges from stealth with $51.5 million in funding<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-01-15 00:36:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. Novee, a cybersecurity startup specializing in artificial intelligence\u2013driven offensive security, emerged from stealth mode Wednesday with $51.5 million in funding. The investment was led by YL Ventures, Canaan Partners and Zeev Ventures.The company raised its Series A just four months after its founding in May 2025, marking one of the fastest funding trajectories in the offensive security sector. Novee attributed the pace to strong customer interest, a team with deep expertise in AI research and offensive cybersecurity, and growing concerns over increasingly automated cyberattacks.Novee\u2019s platform uses AI to simulate the tactics of real-world hackers, offering continuous penetration testing that detects advanced vulnerabilities. It focuses on identifying complex business logic flaws and delivering automated retesting to ensure critical risks are resolved.\u201cAttackers don\u2019t wait for your annual pentest, and neither should your defense,\u201d said Novee co-founder and CEO Ido Geffen. \u201cNovee has already helped organizations uncover hundreds of these novel vulnerabilities and fix them continuously, closing gaps before attackers exploit them.\u201dUnlike platforms that rely on generic AI models, Novee developed a proprietary AI system trained specifically on offensive security data and techniques. The company said its model outperformed leading large language models like Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 4 Sonnet by more than 55% in web exploitation tasks, achieving 90% accuracy.\u201cPenetration testing is an adversarial, environment-driven problem,\u201d said Tal Shapira, CTO at Reco AI. \u201cPurpose-trained models will consistently outperform general-purpose language models in this domain.\u201dCustomers including enterprise software firm Cresta praised the platform\u2019s ability to uncover hard-to-detect vulnerabilities. \u201cWe needed testing that could identify more complex vulnerabilities, like server-side request forgery, which scanners just aren\u2019t capable of detecting,\u201d said Robert Kugler, Cresta\u2019s head of security. \u201cNovee filled that gap.\u201dNovee was founded by Geffen, Gon Chalamish (chief product officer) and Omer Ninburg (chief technology officer), all of whom served in elite cyber units within the IDF. The company is based in Tel Aviv.\u201cNovee is built by a team that has spent decades operating at the highest levels of offensive cyber and critical infrastructure defense,\u201d said Yoav Leitersdorf, managing partner at YL Ventures. \u201cThey understand how real attackers think because they have done this work themselves, at scale and under real-world constraints. What they are building reflects a deep understanding of how AI is reshaping the balance between attack and defense. As AI changes the speed and nature of attacks, offensive security becomes a continuous capability, not a periodic exercise. Novee is executing on that shift with rare technical rigor and conviction.\u201d
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