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Prime Security

Category: AI in Cybersecurity

An AI-powered security platform that autonomously conducts security design reviews during the software development lifecycle using agentic AI agents. Prime Security was founded in 2023. The company is led by Michael Nov. Based in New York, United States. Team size: 10-50. Total funding raised: $26.0M. Latest round: Series A ($20.0M, December 2025). Key investors include ["Scale Venture Partners (Lead)","Foundation Capital","Flybridge Ventures","PayPal Ventures","Ofir Ehrlich (Eon CEO)"].

Founded
2023
Headquarters
New York, United States
Team size
10-50
Total funding
$26.0M

Value proposition

Automates security design reviews at the planning stage, achieving near-full coverage of development work while reducing manual effort by 60%+ and eliminating costly late-stage security interventions

Products and solutions

["Agentic Security Architect - Autonomous security design review system","Security Design Risk Detection - Identifies design flaws across development plans","Framework Compliance Mapping - Maps mitigations to NIST, CIS, PCI, HITRUST","Security Architect Chat - Self-serve guidance for engineers","Continuous Monitoring - Real-time assessment of development changes"]

Unique value

First agentic security platform focused exclusively on the design stage, automatically discovering and analyzing all planned development work from existing tools like Jira and Confluence without requiring new processes

Target customer

Mid-to-large enterprises with 200+ developers, particularly in financial services, SaaS, and regulated industries requiring secure-by-design practices

Industries served

["Financial Services","Enterprise SaaS","Consumer Technology","Healthcare/Regulated Industries","Infrastructure/Data Technology"]

Technology advantage

Agentic AI system that continuously monitors development plans, performs multi-iteration analysis with internal quality benchmarks, and produces framework-aligned security reviews without manual questionnaires or threat modeling diagrams

How they differentiate

AI-driven agentic security architect that provides continuous, automated security assessment during the software design phase, offering proactive risk identification and mitigation before development begins

Main competitors

["Coalfire","Synopsys","Veracode"]

Key partnerships

["Scale Venture Partners (Series A lead investor)","Foundation Capital, Flybridge Ventures, PayPal Ventures (Series A participants)","Enterprise integrations: Jira, Azure DevOps, Linear, Git Issues, Confluence, Google Drive","Customer partnerships: PayPal, Qualtrics, Bumble, ThoughtSpot, Redis Labs, Yext"]

Notable customers

["PayPal","Qualtrics","Bumble","ThoughtSpot","Redis Labs","CIBT","Snap Finance","Redox"]

Major milestones

["Secured $6M seed funding led by Foundation Capital in October 2024","Raised $20M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners in December 2025","Won Black Hat 2025 Startup Spotlight Competition","Achieved SOC2 Type II certification","Launched Agentic Security Architect platform","Expanded operations with dual presence in NYC and Tel Aviv"]

Growth metrics

Early-stage company founded in 2023, focusing on product security platform development and go-to-market expansion. Won Black Hat 2025 Startup Spotlight, achieved SOC2 Type II certification, and serves major enterprise customers

Market positioning

Early-stage innovator in the agentic security space, focusing on shifting security left in the development lifecycle with autonomous AI agents

Geographic focus

North America (NYC headquarters) and Israel (Tel Aviv office)

Patents and IP

No registered patents disclosed as of latest update

About Michael Nov

Michael Nov is a cybersecurity expert and technology leader with extensive experience in product security. Prior to co-founding Prime Security, he worked at OwnBackup where he gained deep expertise in enterprise security and led product security initiatives. He co-founded Prime Security in 2023 to address the critical gap in design-stage security automation.

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