Human risk security startup Frame Security Ltd. launched today with an announcement that it had raised $50 million in funding to build out its platform that uses artificial intelligence to harden employees against social engineering and deepfake attacks.

Frame pitches its platform as a replacement for quarterly slide decks and canned phishing simulations that still dominate security awareness budgets. The company argues that the threat landscape has shifted faster than the training around it, as roughly 90% of data breaches still involve the human element even though 96% of organizations run some form of awareness program.

Generative AI has lowered the cost of running those attacks. Gartner Inc. data cited by Frame found 43% of cybersecurity leaders fielded at least one deepfake audio call in 2025 and 37% encountered deepfake video calls, with attackers impersonating executives and colleagues across email, chat, voice and video to steal credentials, push through payments, or gain system access.

Frame’s platform uses AI to generate realistic attack simulations, role-based training and on-the-spot guidance tailored to individual employees. When a new attack pattern emerges, security teams can spin up relevant training in minutes rather than waiting for the next quarterly cycle and the system continuously analyzes employee behavior and organizational patterns to surface the specific threats a given worker is most likely to face.

“AI has made social engineering attacks dramatically easier to create and much harder to detect,” explains Tal Shlomo, co-founder and chief executive of Frame. “Even the most advanced cybersecurity systems couldn’t eliminate the risk introduced by human behavior.”

Shlomo and co-founder Sharon Shmueli are both veterans of Israel’s Unit 8200. Shlomo was one of the earliest employees at Wiz Inc., the cloud security company Google LLC acquired for $32 billion. Shmueli previously served as chief technology officer at Team8’s venture platform.

While only formally launching today, the company said it already has a tens of enterprise customers, including Louis Dreyfus Co. and AlphaSense Inc. The new funding will go toward engineering, AI and cybersecurity research and a broader U.S. and international go-to-market push.

The round was co-led by Index Ventures, Team8 and Picture Capital Management, with participation from Wiz Chief Executive Officer Assaf Rappaport and technology investor Elad Gil, who first backed the company as an angel and added to his position through Gil Capital.

“Human risk exists in any company with an employee,” said Shardul Shah, partner at Index Ventures. “Those employees need to be prepared for the threats they’re facing today, not a static approximation of threats from five years ago. Frame is building a platform that makes that possible.”

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