Led · Seed · Mar 2025

Founded in 2024, ORION Security has built a proprietary end-to-end architecture that employs specialized AI agents to detect and prevent data exfiltration in real time without relying on static, human-authored policies. By evaluating data lineage, user identity, behavioral intent, content sensitivity and environmental context, the platform sharply reduces false positives that plague legacy DLP solutions. Enterprises in finance, healthcare and technology have already adopted the product to secure sensitive information while cutting maintenance costs associated with rule-based systems. The company positions itself as an alternative to a $5 billion legacy DLP market that struggles to handle modern AI-driven workflows and distributed workforces. With offices in New York City and Tel Aviv, ORION aims to scale go-to-market operations and speed product development of its context-aware protection capabilities. The recent financing brings total capital raised to $38 million, reflecting rapid market traction. Although specific revenue or user numbers were not disclosed, the company cites “tier-1 global customers” as evidence of early adoption.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2022

Slim.AI builds a developer platform that optimizes and secures cloud-native applications, delivering automated, production-ready container images and workflows. The product is built atop the DockerSlim open-source project created by co-founder and CTO Kyle Quest, and the open-source tooling has 300k+ downloads. Slim.AI’s platform goes beyond simple container minification to provide a holistic container-based workflow for developers in organizations large and small. Co-founded by John Amaral and Kyle Quest in January 2021, the company emphasizes a product-led, developer-first approach and has assembled a board of DevOps and cloud-native advisory luminaries. Financially, Slim.AI closed a $6.6M seed in January 2021 and most recently raised a $31M Series A to advance its platform and go-to-market. Slim.ai is developing a commercial product that builds on the DockerSlim open-source tool to simplify container authoring, building, deploying and running. The company aims to optimize container images and integrate with developer workflows, container registries and multiple cloud environments. Slim.ai is still early stage, nurturing the open-source community as a springboard for the paid product, which the team expects to release later this year. The company raised a $6.6 million seed round to support product development and growth. Slim.ai has a small team of about 15 people and emphasizes culture and diversity, having hired a head of culture early. The co-founders are John Amaral (CEO) and Kyle Quest (CTO), the latter of whom created DockerSlim in 2015.