Tuskira, a cybersecurity startup with ambitious plans to use artificial intelligence to unify and enhance threat defense systems, has launched from stealth with $28.5 million a funding round led by Intel Capital.

The San Francisco company said the Series A round also included investments from SYN Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Rain Capital, and Wipro Ventures.

Tuskira, the brainchild of the team behind Accurics (acquired by Tenable for $160 million), is working on AI-powered technology promising to integrate over 150 fragmented security tools into a unified security mesh. 

The company said its platform will provide enterprise defenders with real-time data to automate important security controls and vulnerability exploit analysis across code, cloud environments, applications, and infrastructure. 

Tuskira and its investors are banking on defenders spending on a shift towards proactive threat mitigation where AI use-cases are emerging to reduce alert fatigue and automate routine but critical security and IT tasks.

“We believe businesses must move beyond reactive approaches and adopt proactive strategies that address vulnerabilities before they are exploited,” the company said in a note announcing the new financing.

“[Our] GenAI-powered security mesh fills this critical gap by unifying fragmented tools, optimizing controls, and providing actionable insights that help organizations stay ahead of attackers and safeguard their operations.”

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