Kevin Mandia’s new ‘agent swarm’ security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation
Kevin Mandia’s new ‘agent swarm’ security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation
凯文·曼迪亚（Kevin Mandia）的“智能体集群”安全初创公司 Armadin 完成 2.555 亿美元融资，估值达 25 亿美元
Kevin Mandia, best known as the founder of cybersecurity startup Mandiant, which sold to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022, has raised $255.5 million for his latest startup, Armadin, at a valuation of more than $2.5 billion, the company announced on Thursday.
凯文·曼迪亚（Kevin Mandia）最为人所知的身份是网络安全初创公司 Mandiant 的创始人，该公司于 2022 年以 54 亿美元的价格出售给了谷歌。周四，该公司宣布，曼迪亚为其最新创办的初创公司 Armadin 筹集了 2.555 亿美元资金，估值超过 25 亿美元。
The Series B round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, with Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint, 8VC, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Kleiner Perkins, and Menlo Ventures joining in. The new round comes just six months after Armadin raised a $190 million Series A in March. It has now raised more than $445 million.
本轮 B 轮融资由 Andreessen Horowitz 和 Accel 领投，Bain Capital Ventures、Redpoint、8VC、Ballistic Ventures、Google Ventures、In-Q-Tel、Kleiner Perkins 和 Menlo Ventures 跟投。此轮融资距离 Armadin 在今年 3 月完成的 1.9 亿美元 A 轮融资仅过去六个月。目前，该公司累计融资额已超过 4.45 亿美元。
Armadin is offering enterprises a new kind of always-on security by reimagining defense testing for the AI era. Instead of traditional penetration tests, where hired guns attempt to break in and report on the weaknesses they find, Armadin runs always-on agentic swarms, who chain together vulnerabilities to hack in.
Armadin 正在通过重塑人工智能时代的安全防御测试，为企业提供一种全新的“全天候”安全保障。不同于传统的渗透测试（即雇佣安全专家尝试入侵并报告发现的漏洞），Armadin 运行的是全天候的“智能体集群”（agentic swarms），它们能够通过串联多个漏洞进行入侵。
The idea is to help organizations find and seal holes before any bad guys (or even AI labs with rogue agents) can use agentic tech against them.
其核心理念是帮助组织在坏人（甚至是拥有流氓智能体的 AI 实验室）利用智能体技术发起攻击之前，发现并封堵安全漏洞。