Empirical Security develops predictive exploit intelligence using custom-built AI and machine learning models to support exposure management. Its flagship products are Foundation, a global model that monitors over 18,000 exploited CVEs to help predict threats, and Radiant, a custom predictive engine fine-tuned for each customer’s environment. The company rapidly fine-tunes deployments using curated, AI-mined, and customer-provided data. Empirical plans to use the Series A proceeds to accelerate development and deployment of Foundation and Radiant. The company has raised a total of $37M to date. It is led by CEO Ed Bellis, CTO Michael Roytman and Jay Jacobs and is based in Chicago, IL.

Total raised

$37M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Jul 2026