AegisAI Raises $36 Million Series A Led by Battery Ventures to Fight the New Wave of AI Spear Phishing
The round lifts AegisAI’s total funding to $49 million as the startup scales autonomous agents that cut false positives by up to 90%, it said.
- On Thursday, July 23, 2026, email security startup AegisAI announced a $36 million Series A funding round led by Battery Ventures, with participation from existing investors Accel and Foundation Capital.
- Former Google security executives Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo launched AegisAI last year to counter a 5x surge in AI-generated email attacks amid record $20.8 billion in FBI-reported cybercrime losses.
- AegisAI's autonomous agents cut false positives by up to 90% compared to legacy tools, while data shows AI-generated spear-phishing grew to 13.9% of observed threats by late 2025, with 72.6% passing email authentication.
- Battery Ventures general partner Dharmesh Thakker stated, "Email is where enterprise trust lives and generative AI just broke every assumption legacy email security was built on."
- The funding brings AegisAI's total capital to $49 million, which the startup will use to scale Vanguard, an autonomous agent hunting threats beyond the inbox, and expand enterprise go-to-market operations.
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AegisAI Raises $36 Million Series A Led by Battery Ventures to Fight the New Wave of AI Spear Phishing
/PRNewswire/ -- AegisAI, the email security company building its own large language models (LLMs) to defend the inbox, today announced a $36 million Series A...
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AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing
The Series A was led by Battery Ventures, bringing AegisAI total funding to $49 million.
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