Backline raises $9 million Seed round to eliminate security backlogs with autonomous AI
Backline raises $9 million Seed round to eliminate security backlogs with autonomous AI
Founded by serial entrepreneurs, the Israeli company aims to automate security fixes across enterprises.
Backline, which develops an autonomous security remediation platform, has raised $9 million in Seed funding led by StageOne Ventures, with participation from Evolution Equity Partners and Gradient.
The company's AI-driven platform automatically fixes security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations at scale, helping enterprises address their overwhelming security backlogs. The AI agents act as security and software engineers, analyzing security findings, gathering necessary context, determining optimal fixes for specific environments, and implementing verified code and configuration changes that customers can trust. The platform is designed for autonomous operation while maintaining full visibility and control.
Backline was founded in August 2024 by cybersecurity veterans Maor Goldberg (CEO), Eran Leib (chief customer officer), and Aviad Chen (VP of R&D), who have worked together for over 25 years since starting their careers in the Israeli Defense Forces. Backline is their third cybersecurity startup, following Whitebox Security (acquired by SailPoint) and Apolicy (acquired by Sysdig).
"Engineering teams spend over 20% of their time fixing security issues, but that barely covers the most critical ones," said Maor Goldberg, co-founder and CEO of Backline. "They wake up each day to hundreds of new issues—not because anything changed overnight, but due to newly discovered vulnerabilities or weaknesses in the cloud services they use. This has led to endless prioritization and a perpetually growing backlog of 'lower-priority' issues. The frustrating reality is that most breaches stem from known security flaws—often simple to fix but buried deep in backlogs that developers, DevOps, and platform engineers never find time to address."
