Kai Emerges From Stealth With $125M in Funding for AI Platform Bridging IT and OT Security

Kai on Tuesday emerged from stealth mode with $125 million in funding for an AI-powered platform that aims to bridge IT and OT cybersecurity.

The investment, raised over seed and Series A funding rounds, comes from Evolution Equity Partners, N47, and other investors. 

The funding will be used for R&D, scaling the company’s platform, and accelerating go-to-market efforts.

San Jose, CA-based Kai was founded by Galina Antova (CEO) and Damiano Bolzoni (CTO). Antova (a former SecurityWeek contributor) previously co-founded OT security giant Claroty, while Bolzoni co-founded SecurityMatters, an OT security firm that was acquired by Forescout Technologies in 2018.

The company says its platform leverages AI to autonomously and continuously perform critical cybersecurity tasks across IT and OT environments.

The platform provides a wide range of capabilities, including for threat detection, application and identity security, threat modeling, cyber asset enrichment, risk profiling, vulnerability management, shadow IT/OT discovery, threat intelligence distillation, regulatory compliance automation, and log optimization.

“My co-founder Dr. Damiano Bolzoni and I spent years helping converge IT and OT security. Two worlds that everyone said couldn’t be unified. With Kai, we’re doing it again, at a larger scale: dissolving the walls between security, engineering, and IT entirely,” said Antova.

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