Funding record · 2025 / 09
Koi raises $10M Seed for application security
Acquired by Palo Alto Networks
Announced 10 September 2025 · Recorded 8 September 2026 · Last verified 8 September 2026
Koi, an application security company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, raised $10M in a Seed announced on 10 September 2025, led by NFX, Picture Capital and Cerca Partners. Its disclosed equity funding is now $48M across 2 rounds.
- Amount
- $10M
- Round
- Seed
- Announced
- 10 September 2025
- Lead investors
- NFX, Picture Capital, Cerca Partners
- Sources on record
- 1newswire.com
From the source
Koi Raises $48M to Reinvent Endpoint Security for the Modern Software Stack
Koi, an endpoint security startup founded by Israeli Military Intelligence veterans, raised $48 million across seed and Series A rounds to secure the modern software layer including extensions, AI models, containers, and code packages. The company was born from a white-hat hacking experiment in which founders created a malicious VSCode theme extension that compromised over 300 organizations within a week. Backed by Battery Ventures, Team8, Picture Capital, and NFX, Koi has already scaled to protect over 500,000 endpoints globally and exceeded seven-figure revenues in eight months.
newswire.com · 10 September 2025 ↗The Mandos read
What the record says about Koi
- Momentum 34 / 100 · Coolinglocked →
pillars in the platform
- 212 employees · down 3% last monthlocked →
history and breakdowns in the platform
- Exit Readiness: Lowlocked →
Tested against 751 past exits in the Mandos record: 43% sat in Watch or Elevated 2 years before. Companies in Elevated exited at 3.1× the record's rate.
Funding history
Koi funding on record
Koi has raised $48M in priced equity. Its most recent round was a Series A in September 2025.
Latest round on record: Series A, Sep 2025.
Koi funding on the profile →Related rounds
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FAQ
Questions people ask
- How much did Koi raise in its Seed?
- Koi raised $10M in a Seed announced on 10 September 2025.
- Who invested in Koi's Seed?
- The round was led by NFX, Picture Capital, Cerca Partners.
- What does Koi do?
- Koi is a cybersecurity company specializing in Application Security, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
