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Funding to venture-backed cybersecurity startups has trended up so far this year, and Thursday saw another sign of that.

locked up a $75 million Series A funding led by , 1听补苍诲 .

The San Jose, California-based startup is helping bring artificial intelligence agents to security operations centers, or SOC. The idea is, with the help of data, to significantly reduce human-led SOC work while improving security outcomes.

鈥淥ur vision is to empower SOC teams with an intelligent platform that allows humans to collaborate seamlessly with AI agents鈥攊ntegrating precise human oversight with advanced automation,鈥� said co-founder and CEO Ankur Singla in a . 鈥淏y harnessing Exabots alongside advanced data exploration, we reduce false positives and eliminate tedious busywork鈥攁ll while giving humans the flexibility to choose where they want to be hands-on.鈥�

Intersection of AI and security

Just last week, , a managing director at who participated in the round told 附近上门 News one significant trend driving interest in this space is AI, and more specifically, agentic AI.

鈥淚t has the potential to make cybersecurity professionals more effective, streamline operations and reduce the time to resolution of critical hacks within enterprise security operations centers,鈥� he said. 鈥淎utomation is emerging as a critical solution in these environments.鈥�

Funding in general to VC-backed cyber startups topped $2.7 billion in Q1, per 附近上门 . That鈥檚 a 29% increase from the last quarter of 2024, and just a slight dip from the $2.8 billion raised in the same quarter last year.

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