Kai

Kai is an agentic AI cybersecurity platform that aims to do the actual security work autonomously, uniting threat intelligence, exposure management, detection, and incident response into a single machine speed pipeline rather than another dashboard on top of a fragmented stack. Founded in 2025 in San Jose by Galina Antova, a co founder of industrial security company Claroty, and Damiano Bolzoni, who co founded SecurityMatters before its acquisition by Forescout, Kai emerged from stealth in March 2026 with one hundred twenty five million dollars in seed and Series A funding led by Evolution Equity Partners, with N47 and strategic investors participating. Within ten months of its first line of code it had signed several large enterprise customers and passed seven figures in bookings across energy, pharmaceuticals, automotive, and hospitality.

The platform is a rebuild from first principles rather than an upgrade to existing tools. Its AI agents ingest telemetry from enterprise networks, cloud, endpoints, security tools, and threat intelligence feeds, extract attacker tactics and techniques, and correlate them against an organization's own vulnerabilities, assets, and infrastructure. From there the agents analyze large volumes of vulnerability data, eliminate false positives, decide the most effective remediation, and can execute containment actions such as isolating an affected asset or revoking credentials, compressing a chain that used to take months and many handoffs into about an hour. Because its founders previously helped converge information technology and operational technology security, Kai is built to span on premise, cloud, and OT environments as one pipeline.

Kai frames cybersecurity as a contest between AI systems where the winning side has richer data and can act at machine speed with human expert accuracy, and it keeps humans in oversight for consequential actions, deploying fixes automatically only when appropriate. It is very young, so its breadth is still expanding and its model and developer surfaces are not yet documented as open. For a large enterprise, especially one with significant operational technology, that wants a unified autonomous platform to run security operations end to end rather than stitching point tools together, Kai is an ambitious option; a team looking for a narrow, proven single function tool may prefer a more established specialist.