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Created: 2025-07-17 15:03:29 UTC

🏢 Empirical Security
📍 Chicago, United States of America
🏗️ Technology & Software

💰 $12.0M seed
🤝 Investors: Costanoa Ventures (John Cowgill), Sixty Degree Capital, DNX Ventures, HPA

👼 Angel Investors: Wade Baker, Jonathan Cran, Gerhard Eschelbeck

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📝 Empirical Security, a Chicago-based cybersecurity company founded by former Kenna Security leaders, has raised $XX million in seed funding to advance its custom AI cybersecurity models. The funding round was led by Costanoa Ventures, with participation from DNX Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, HPA, and strategic investors including Jonathan Cran, Wade Baker, and Gerhard Eschelbeck. The company, co-founded by Michael Roytman and Jay Jacobs, focuses on creating localized AI models tailored to each client's unique infrastructure and threat profile. This approach aims to enhance the precision of threat predictions and support evidence-based cybersecurity decisions. Ed Bellis, a co-founder of Kenna Security, has joined Empirical Security as CEO, reuniting with his former colleagues to drive this new venture.
                                             
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