Virginia Startup CounterFlow AI Closes $2.7M Seed Round

Cybersecurity startup CounterFlow AI announced it has raised $2.7M in seed funding from Osage University Partners, the Charlottesville Angel Network, and a number of individual investors who also supported the founders’ previous venture, nPulse Technologies (acquired by FireEye in 2014).

CounterFlow AI is using streaming machine learning technology at the network edge to help cyber defenders more quickly find and remove network threats . “The traditional perimeter defense approach to securing networks is still necessary. But it is no longer sufficient. The fact is that data breaches occur daily. Consequently, security analysts have turned to threat hunting as the best form of defense. Our mission is to arm them with the next generation of tools so that they can scale their hunting operations and win the day” – CounterFlow AI’s CEO, Randy Caldejon.

Network security analysts may face hundreds or even thousands of alerts every day, generated by the perimeter defense tools already in place. Many of these will be false positives, some will be trivial issues that could be resolved with automated responses, and a critical few will be real intrusion events that need to be addressed rapidly.

“By applying machine learning to data in motion, we can draw the security analysts’ attention to the most dangerous threats, allowing them to begin incident response in real time” – CounterFlow AI’s Chief Data Scientist, Dr. Andrew Fast.