Vicarius provides an AI-driven platform that automates discovery, prioritization and remediation of software vulnerabilities, including a text-generating tool, vuln_GPT, to help write detection and remediation scripts. The company augments its product with a community of security researchers who share scripts and earn virtual currency, and it uses that community dataset to train its models. Vicarius says it applies “in-memory protection” to secure apps when patches are not available and validates all AI-generated scripts before customer rollout. The startup reports 5x year-over-year growth and a customer base that recently surpassed 400 brands, including PepsiCo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Equinix. It currently has a 43-person team and plans to double headcount, invest in its product roadmap, integrate with ticketing platforms like ServiceNow and Jira, launch educational courses and let researchers spend community currency on products. Vicarius aims to expand further in North America and Europe and enter new markets in the Asia Pacific region. Vicarius offers an autonomous, cloud-based platform that consolidates the vulnerability remediation process and analyzes proprietary and third-party applications for vulnerabilities. The company aims to eliminate friction between security teams and IT operations by speeding remediation timelines that currently take four to six months from disclosure to deployment, reducing risk from supply-chain style attacks. Vicarius operates a research center that publishes information about vulnerable software and plans to build a social platform to help security engineers, offering free guidance for fixing CVEs even to noncustomers. As of the article, the company has 150 customers, including the U.K.'s National Health Service and Ingram Micro. The startup raised $24 million in a Series A led by AllegisCyber Capital, JVP and AlleyCorp, two years after a $5 million seed round. Vicarius says it will use the funds to triple headcount and expand its go-to-market strategy. Vicarius provides a proactive cybersecurity platform that predicts and mitigates software vulnerabilities in real time using machine‑learning driven Vulnerability Assessment (VA) technology and its TOPIA offering. The platform detects exposures before hacks occur and supplies immediate, built‑in remediation options plus prioritization via a risk‑snapshot dashboard. Vicarius emphasizes pre‑emptive protection and interim threat controls to reduce operational risk from reboots and delayed patching. The company plans to expand its product offering and make it available to more clients across multiple industries. The seed funding will accelerate its international growth and operating scale and support buildout of its Tel Aviv and East Coast US offices. The US team will be based out of the JVP International NYC Cyber Center to support deployments for cities, banks, utilities, healthcare systems, and other clients.

Total raised

$59M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Jan 2024