Corma
Category: AI in Cybersecurity
Frontier AI lab building foundation models toward superintelligence for defensive cybersecurity. Corma was founded in 2025. The company is led by Alon Pluda. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel / San Francisco, USA. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $60M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Sequoia Capital (lead), Khosla Ventures, Coatue.
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- Tel Aviv, Israel / San Francisco, USA
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $60M
Value proposition
A foundation model purpose-built for defensive cybersecurity (not a general-purpose LLM adapted for security), deployed as an AI 'workforce' of agents that work alongside human security teams across an organization's existing security stack.
Products and solutions
Corma Workforce — AI agents built on Corma's own foundation model that generalize across defensive cybersecurity tasks (log analysis, audits, threat detection/response), integrating with existing tools and communicating via Slack/Microsoft Teams, can be deployed fully on-prem/sovereign for regulated customers.
Unique value
First frontier AI lab focused specifically on defensive (not offensive/coding) cybersecurity, claiming its purpose-built foundation model outperforms general-purpose models (GPT/Claude/Gemini) on defensive tasks while being more cost- and compute-efficient, with on-prem deployment options.
Target customer
Enterprise security operations centers (SOC) / Fortune 500 and other large organizations needing to defend against AI-accelerated cyberattacks.
Industries served
Cybersecurity, Enterprise IT/Security Operations
Technology advantage
Proprietary foundation model trained from the ground up for defensive cybersecurity rather than fine-tuned general LLMs; founding team combines AI researchers from Google/Google DeepMind with cybersecurity specialists from Israel's Unit 8200 intelligence corps.
How they differentiate
Builds a dedicated foundation model for defense rather than wrapping general-purpose LLMs; emphasizes agentic 'workforce' deployment model integrated into existing security stacks, plus sovereign/on-prem deployment for regulated industries.
Main competitors
Dropzone AI, Prophet Security, general-purpose AI-security entrants layering GPT/Claude/Gemini onto SOC workflows (vs. Corma's purpose-built foundation model approach)
Key partnerships
Backed by Sequoia Capital (lead), Khosla Ventures, Coatue, deployed with early Fortune 500 customers pre-launch (unnamed).
Major milestones
Founded 2025, operated in stealth with early Fortune 500 deployments, emerged from stealth August 2026 alongside $60M seed announcement led by Sequoia Capital.
Growth metrics
~20 staff at time of raise; deployed with Fortune 500 customers within six weeks of launch (pre-announcement stealth deployment), per Enterprise DNA/press coverage.
Market positioning
Positioned as the first frontier AI lab dedicated solely to defensive cybersecurity, competing at the model layer (not just the application layer) against both incumbent cybersecurity vendors and general-purpose AI labs entering security.
Geographic focus
Global enterprise market, with dual headquarters in Israel (Tel Aviv, cybersecurity/Unit 8200 talent pool) and the US (San Francisco, AI talent and enterprise GTM).
About Alon Pluda
IDF Psagot graduate; 6+ years Israeli Military Intelligence / Unit 8200 (vulnerability research / cybersecurity specialist); co-founder of Miggo Security (left before founding Corma); described by Sequoia as one of the world's most elite hackers.
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Official website: https://corma.ai
