Surf AI Launches with $57 Million in Funding to Help Enterprises Operationalize Security

Surf AI, an agentic operations platform focused on enterprise security, has announced its launch along with $57 million in funding. The round was led by Accel, with participation from Cyberstarts and Boldstart Ventures.

The company plans to use the funding to expand its product capabilities, grow its team, and support adoption among enterprise customers.

Founded in 2024, Surf AI was established by Yair Grindlinger, Elad Horn, Roie Cohen Duwek, Avner Gideoni, and Brenton Gumucio. The founding team brings experience from the Israeli cybersecurity ecosystem.

Challenges in Modern Security Operations

Security teams continue to play a key role in enterprise protection. However, current operating models have not evolved at the same pace as the complexity of digital environments.

Today, risk is distributed across identities, cloud systems, data, and business applications. At the same time, ownership remains fragmented across multiple tools and teams. As a result, execution often becomes slow and inconsistent.

Moreover, the growing use of AI has increased both the speed and complexity of cyberattacks. Consequently, response times have reduced, while expectations from security teams have increased.

Platform Approach and Capabilities

Surf AI aims to address these challenges by offering a unified platform that connects data across systems and supports execution through AI-driven workflows.

The platform collects signals from identity, cloud, security, HR, data, and IT tools. It then builds a contextual graph that maps assets, ownership, permissions, and dependencies.

In addition, the system prioritizes risks based on business impact. It also coordinates remediation through structured workflows, which are managed by AI agents under human supervision.

As work progresses, the platform maintains context. Therefore, teams can continue operations without repeated handoffs or duplication of effort.

Founder Perspective

"We built Surf AI to operationalize the entire security program with AI... Surf AI connects the context, drives the remediation, and keeps your team in control at every step."

"We built Surf AI to operationalize the entire security program with AI,” said Yair Grindlinger, CEO and Co-Founder of Surf AI. "Proactive security hygiene is exactly what we’re encouraging, and our platform is designed to continuously find and close the exposure gaps that teams have always known about but didn’t have the time or resources to address. Surf AI connects the context, drives the remediation, and keeps your team in control at every step."

Investor Commentary

“AI is dramatically increasing the speed and sophistication of attackers, and security teams need fundamentally new operating models to keep up,” said Philippe Botteri, Partner at Accel. “The Surf AI team is building an agentic platform to significantly enhance the productivity of security teams and make their organisation resilient to this new threat landscape.”

"We backed the Surf AI team at seed as the founders have already successfully scaled a cybersecurity business to hundreds of millions in revenue,” said Gili Raanan, Founder of Cyberstarts. "With that experience at Surf AI, they are building an agentic security platform designed for a world where defenders need AI systems that can reason, adapt, and operate at an enterprise scale.”

“Security leaders are under pressure to reduce risk continuously with fewer resources,” said Ed Sim, Founder and General Partner at Boldstart Ventures. “Too many enterprises are spending heavily on tools that only address problems on the surface. We backed Surf AI from inception because it flips that model with an agentic execution layer for security, turning fragmented context into coordinated action that helps CISOs reduce risk while saving time, effort, and costs.”

Early Enterprise Adoption

According to the company, early deployments have delivered measurable outcomes. These include recovery of nearly $1 million in unused SaaS license costs, removal of inactive accounts, and automation of identity-related workflows.

“Surf AI combines advanced analytics with agentic intelligence to convert business context into action,” said Erik Hart, Chief Information Security Officer at Cushman & Wakefield. “It’s helped us operate continuously at scale, lower risk, optimize costs, and improve our security posture, producing measurable ROI in weeks and enabling teams to scale their impact with speed and confidence.”

Expansion Plans

Surf AI is currently onboarding enterprise technology clients and working with global organisations, including Fortune 500 companies. At the same time, the company is hiring engineers and security professionals across the United States and Israel.

About Surf AI

Surf AI is an agentic operations platform designed to help enterprises manage and execute security programs using AI. It connects data across systems and enables action through AI agents, while maintaining human oversight and auditability.