AiStrike, a cybersecurity company pioneering artificial intelligence-native cyber defense, announced today it has raised $7 million in seed funding to scale its its platform for cybersecurity operations.

The round was led by Blumberg Capital, with participation from Runtime Ventures, NextEra Energy Investments and Oregon Venture Fund.

The company aims to use AI to disrupt the current reliance on reactive security practices, which involve instrumenting edge devices and analyzing logs to alert teams to incoming threats. Instead, it aims to employ proactive tools that anticipate how attacks are most likely to succeed, thereby preventing alerts from ever turning into actual danger.

“The traditional security operating model no longer works in a world of AI-driven threats,” said Chief Executive Nitin Agale. “AiStrike was built to enable preemptive cyber defense, continuously reducing exposure without adding tools, headcount or black-box services.”

For a large global tech company, Aistrike’s agentic AI continuously assesses its threat landscape and maps against the customer’s environment to understand which threat actors, techniques and scenarios it will be most exposed to, then it takes preemptive actions.

These could be applying targeted controls on edge devices to block malicious activity, deploy controlled deception techniques to surface and observe suspicious behavior, proactively hunt threat indicators, automatically prioritize threats and adapt to new information.

Agale explained that AI is sometimes wrong and its own AI can be targeted by malicious attackers. The company wrote its system defensively. The company built its system to use domain-specific models grounded in threat intelligence, customer environment context and document operating procedures to significantly reduce errors and low-quality conclusions.

Customers deploying AiStrike on their networks are a mix of commercial enterprises, security providers and public-sector organizations, including Sunrun Inc., Banyax, The Marzetti Co. and FedTec LLC.

“When we relied on managed detection and response, our team spent most of its time chasing false positives and justifying costs,” said Varun Singhal, director of information security at solar energy company Sunrun Inc. “With AiStrike, only alerts that truly matter reach our team. We’ve cut costs in half, improved coverage and gained a single place to investigate and respond.”

AirStrike said it has handled more than 5 million investigations in the past year, and customers report over 50% lower security operations costs, 90% fewer false positives, 40% broader detection range and investigation times reduced from hours to minutes.

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