Overview
- Greylock announced it led a $75 million seed round for Tenzai as the startup came out of stealth to develop agentic AI for penetration testing.
- Forbes reported the raise at $80 million with a $330 million valuation, citing a source, a figure not confirmed by the company.
- Tenzai’s agents run on frontier models from providers such as Anthropic and OpenAI and are described by CEO Pavel Gurvich as having nation‑grade offensive capabilities.
- Early deployments are underway with financial services, healthcare and technology enterprises, with customer names undisclosed as the product is refined with design partners.
- Founded by veterans behind Guardicore’s $600 million sale to Akamai, the company counts Lux Capital and Battery Ventures as investors, targets work typically done by firms like Deloitte or PwC, and enters a field with rivals including Terra Security and XBOW that backers peg as a multibillion‑dollar opportunity.