Simbian Emerges from Stealth with $10M to Build Fully Autonomous Security Platform Powered by Gen-AI
Ambuj Kumar
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Company Launches Industry’s First Security Co-pilot that Adapts to Diverse IT Environments and Covers the Entire Gamut of Security Functions, as the First Step Towards Autonomous Security Â
Mountain View, Calif. – April 11, 2024 – Simbian today emerged
from stealth mode with oversubscribed $10M seed funding to
deliver on fully autonomous security. As a first step towards
that goal, the company is introducing the industry’s first
GenAI-powered security co-pilot that integrates secure and
intelligent AI solutions into diverse IT environments to
maximize coverage and expedite resolutions to security teams’
ever-changing needs. The co-pilot continuously observes user
actions and environments, and learns to autonomously perform
increasingly sophisticated tasks on its own with time. Simbian
is committed to making security fully autonomous by delegating
all tactical tasks to its trusted AI platform, allowing users to
focus on strategic security goals. Â
Simbian, the name derived from the symbiotic relationship
between humans and AI, has received initial investment from
security and AI-focused investors Cota Capital, Icon Ventures,
Firebolt and Rain Capital. Its founding team comprises leading
AI researchers and security veterans who have created security
products in broad use across enterprises today, and have 150+
patents across large language models, cloud computing,
encryption, scalable architecture, transistors, and hardware
design.
“Traditional approaches to security automation no longer suffice
in today’s dynamic environments,” said Cota Capital Partner
Aditya Singh. “Talent is getting scarce, and at the same time,
threat vectors are getting more complex. A fully autonomous
security platform presents a big opportunity in the global
cybersecurity market, which, according to a
cybersecurity market report, is to grow to
$298.5 billion  by 2028. Simbian is a leader in the field, using a deep
understanding of the nuance and context of security automation
that learns with AI and gets smarter and deeper over time.​
Simbian’s founding team has a uniquely proven background, having
built NVIDIA GPUs, confidential computing, and leading cloud
security solutions. We are thrilled to join Simbian in the
journey to fully autonomous security.”
In addition, 15 of today’s most successful business leaders back
the company, including Olivier Pomel, Co-founder and CEO at
Datadog; Pankaj Patel, Co-founder and CEO at Nile; Diogo Monica,
Co-founder at Anchorage Digital; Joe Sullivan, former
CSO at Facebook, Uber, and Cloudflare; Bharat Shah, former CVP
of Microsoft Security; Suresh Batchu, Co-founder and COO at
Seraphic; Paul Albright, Operating Partner at Goldman Sachs;
Pierre Lamond, legendary Silicon Valley investor; and Gokul
Rajaram, board member at Coinbase and Pinterest.
Simbian’s GenAI-powered platform is the industry’s first
security co-pilot that adapts to diverse IT environments and
covers the entire gamut of security functions. Most businesses
have a mix of software from multiple vendors and in-house
software. Each business and each member of a security team have
unique, ever-changing security needs. Simbian helps every member
of the security team from the CISO to the frontline practitioner
solve their unique security needs in real-time. Users provide
their goal in natural language, and Simbian’s patent-pending
LLM-powered platform provides personalized recommendations and
generates automated actions across heterogeneous environments –
delivering better security outcomes, higher agility to evolving
business needs and threats, and lower costs.
“Security is a domain of ever-increasing complexity,” said
Sergey Gorbunov, Co-founder at Axelar. “Every day security
incidents bring new variables. Simbian is taking a big step
forward towards the mission of a fully autonomous security
platform. We are excited to partner with them as it allows us to
be strategic in our security goals, leaving the mechanics of
security to Simbian.”
While security vendors are increasingly using GenAI,
off-the-shelf GenAI models come with many security risks,
including hallucinations, prompt injection risks, and exposure
of PII/confidential data. Simbian minimizes these risks by
leveraging a patent-pending hardened LLM system called
TrustedLLM™ that utilizes multiple layers of security controls
between the user and the GenAI models it uses under the hood.
“AI-driven security solutions can greatly improve threat
detection, speeding remediation, and reducing complexity,” said
Dave Gruber, Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
“Simbian is bringing this vision to a reality, as they leverage
AI to automate many of the more challenging, frequent security
tasks performed by all level security analysts throughout their
day.”
Simbian’s Co-founder and CEO Ambuj Kumar was most recently the
Co-founder and CEO at Fortanix, a successful data security
company, where he raised $135M+ and established the Confidential
Computing security category. Mr. Kumar previously served as Lead
Designer of NVIDIA GPUs and as Chief Architect at Cryptography
Research Inc. Simbian’s Co-founder and CTO Alankrit Chona has
extensive background in high scale platforms and data
engineering from Twitter, and was a founding member of
successful startups Afterpay and Spotnana.
“Security teams cannot keep up with the operational tasks they
must do each day, despite years of investment in in-house
automation and tools to make them more effective – which is why
we founded Simbian,” said Ambuj Kumar, Simbian Co-Founder and
CEO. “Early feedback and traction in the industry has been
extremely positive, and we are excited to launch the company
today. A first in the industry, Simbian puts the security
operator firmly in charge of security decisions, and we enable
the user to interact with products across vendors to get things
done. We stand unique in the industry with our ability to
generate commands in code using LLM and based on a natural
language user interface, and we enable users to craft
permutations of the actions we support, all on the fly.”
About Simbian
Using GenAI, Simbian is the industry’s first company to
integrate secure and intelligent AI solutions into business
operations across diverse IT environments to maximize security
coverage and speed resolutions to security teams’ most pressing
ever-changing needs. Simbian, with its hardened TrustedLLM™
system, is the first to accelerate security by empowering every
member of a security team, from the C-Suite to frontline
practitioners, to craft tailored insights and workflows for
their unique security needs – ranging from complex investigation
and response to governance and reporting. The company is venture
backed and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. For more
information, visit
www.simbian.ai , or follow Simbian on
https://www.linkedin.com/company/simbian/
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Simbian and TrustedLLM™ are trademarks of Simbian, Inc.