Welcome to The Trident Radar. Quiet week on volume, but not on signal!
Capital is flowing into real-risk analytics, compliance automation, and a few smart early-stage bets that could define 2026’s breakouts.
Let's dive in.
Cyber risk analytics goes big: CyberCube secures $180M+ from Spectrum Equity to scale insurance risk modeling.
Compliance made practical: Oneleet raises $33M Series A for automated, control-driven compliance.
DSPM consolidation: archTIS finalizes its acquisition of Spirion.
Insider Insight: AI Broke Security, Now It’s Trying to Fix It
Emerging bets: Aurva ($2.2M seed) and Vibranium Labs ($4.6M seed) surface from stealth, hinting at next-gen AI security plays.
FUNDING SPOTLIGHT
CyberCube – Growth – $180M+ (Spectrum Equity leading)
Cyber risk analytics platform powering the insurance and reinsurance market. Quantifies loss frequency, severity, and aggregation for cyber underwriting. Used by insurers to model exposure at portfolio scale.
Oneleet – Series A – $33M (Dawn Capital leading)
Berlin-based compliance automation platform built for security teams. Replaces static audits with live controls and evidence collection mapped directly to frameworks like ISO, SOC 2, and GDPR.
Keepit – Debt Refinancing – $60M (EIFO & HSBC Innovation Banking)
Copenhagen-based SaaS data protection company. Provides cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and other enterprise apps. The new facility extends runway for global expansion and product R&D.
Aurva – Seed – $2.2M (Better Capital & Java Capital leading)
Bengaluru startup delivering AI observability and data-access monitoring. Bridges DevOps and SecOps by showing how data and models are accessed in real time. Targets the new frontier of AI data security.
Vibranium Labs – Seed – $4.6M (Private investors)
San Francisco startup building AI agents that detect and automatically fix software and infrastructure failures. Blends AIOps and cybersecurity response for faster remediation.
M&A INTELLIGENCE
archTIS → Spirion (Completed October 1, 2025)
archTIS has completed its acquisition of Spirion, integrating DSPM with sensitive data discovery and privacy classification. The deal strengthens archTIS’s data-centric security posture and expands its US customer footprint.
This combination positions archTIS to compete directly with privacy heavyweights like OneTrust and BigID, but from a security-first angle. It’s a smart consolidation in a fragmented segment.
Sunstone Partners → Clearwater (Announced September 30, 2025)
Sunstone Partners has taken a strategic growth stake in Clearwater, a healthcare-focused cybersecurity and compliance firm. Clearwater’s managed services blend HIPAA compliance, incident response, and governance.
Healthcare breaches keep rising, and PE is circling again. This move signals a new wave of consolidation in regulated verticals where security and compliance overlap.
INSIDER INSIGHT
AI Broke Security, Now It’s Trying to Fix It
The irony of 2025 is that AI created most of the security chaos we’re now trying to automate our way out of.
The majority of major breach’s this year have involved over-permissioned APIs, misconfigured agents, or data leaks from model pipelines. Security teams have reached the limit of how many alerts and dashboards they can manage. That’s why this new generation of “agentic” startups, like Vibranium Labs, Aurva, Terra Security, feels different.
They aren’t chasing more visibility. They’re building systems that act. AI agents that watch logs, detect anomalies, and fix problems before anyone even opens a ticket. It’s a quiet rebellion against the traditional SOC, it essentially means fewer analysts, more automation, and almost no noise. In a perfect world that is!
The next phase of cybersecurity is about autonomy. Take a company like Vega, who’s whole goal is to reinvent how we investigate. These startups are trying to make the entire security operation self-healing.
And the people building them aren’t the usual suspects. They come from DevOps, reliability, and data engineering, the ones who’ve actually lived the operational pain.
The people who built the chaos are now hopefully building the calm.
HOT JOBS
Head of Sales – AI Agent Platform | USA Remote
AI-driven platform purpose-built for cybersecurity teams. Enables analysts to build and manage their own team of agentic security bots. $400K OTE.
Contact: [email protected]
Head of Sales – Identity Security | New York / USA Remote
AI-native identity security platform redefining IAM through adaptive, agentic automation. $400K OTE.
Contact: [email protected]
Founding Account Executive | Tel Aviv
Data protection company providing full visibility into sensitive data movement with automated leak detection and seamless deployment. $360K OTE.
Contact: [email protected]
Founding Account Executive | New York / Remote
AI-powered security platform redefining data and cloud protection for the enterprise. $330K OTE.
Contact: [email protected]
Account Executive – Threat Intelligence Platform | NYC / Remote
Series A threat-led defense company mapping adversary behavior to enterprise security stacks. $350K OTE.
Contact: [email protected]
Account Executive – Brand Protection | Boston
Cutting-edge platform protecting enterprises from online brand scams and impersonation attacks. $150K OTE.
Contact: [email protected]
Ready to make your next move? These roles won't stay open long.
COMPANY SPOTLIGHT
Vibranium Labs – San Francisco, CA
Funding: $4.6M Seed (Private investors)
Founders: Former engineers from Netflix and Datadog
What they do: Vibranium Labs builds AI agents that monitor, diagnose, and automatically fix failures in real time, whether caused by code, infrastructure drift, or security misconfigurations. Their system integrates directly with observability stacks and uses large language models to understand context before taking corrective action.
Why this matters: Every enterprise is buried under noise. Vibranium’s core idea is that detection without decisioning is just backlog. They are attempting to do as I foretold above, automate security!!
Trident Take: The funding is small, but the ambition is anything but. This is what the post-SOC era looks like, automation that doesn’t just flag problems, it fixes them. Watch who their early partners are; that’ll tell you which enterprises are ready to let AI take the wheel.
BOTTOM LINE
Vendors
Focus on provable risk reduction. The platforms that show quantifiable outcomes will outlast the ones selling promise.
Enterprises
Prioritise control automation over checkbox compliance. Every audit prep hour saved is margin back to your team.
Investors
Cyber’s gravity point has shifted to risk and automation. Seed deals in AI security and compliance platforms are quietly leading the next cycle.
NEXT WEEK'S PREDICTIONS
Another early-stage AI security company emerges from stealth.
A data security vendor lands a sizable Series A.
Mid-market MSSPs start bundling compliance and AI detection in their GTM.
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