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Ent.AI Raises $100M Led by Decibel for AI-Native Endpoint Security

Ent.AI raised $100 million led by Decibel Partners to build AI-native endpoint and cybersecurity defense. The round adds to a banner year for security funding as enterprises race to deploy AI-driven defenses against increasingly automated, AI-powered attacks.

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Trace Cohen
Early-stage VC & angel ยท Founder, New York Venture Partners
June 18, 2026
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THE RUNDOWN
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AI-versus-AI is now the security frontier -- defenders need autonomous tooling to match automated attackers

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Cybersecurity remains one of the most reliably fundable categories regardless of the broader funding climate

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The VC Read ยท Trace's TakeTrace Cohen

Security is the one category that gets funded in every climate, and the reason is simple: the attackers just got AI too. Ent.AI raising $100M to build defense that's AI-native from the ground up is the right shape -- bolting AI onto legacy endpoint tools won't keep pace with automated intrusions. The whole market is becoming an AI-versus-AI arms race, and buyers with real exposure are moving budget fast. The crowded field is the risk; differentiation has to be more than 'we use AI too.'

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Ent.AI raised $100 million in a round led by Decibel Partners to scale its AI-native endpoint security platform. The company applies AI to detect and respond to threats at the device level, pitching autonomous defense as the necessary answer to a wave of increasingly automated and AI-assisted attacks.

The round lands amid a surge in security spending and funding. As attackers adopt AI to generate malware, automate intrusions, and scale social engineering, defenders are turning to AI-native tooling that can match that speed -- and investors are funding the shift aggressively. Cybersecurity has remained one of the most consistently fundable categories through every recent market cycle.

โ€œThe round lands amid a surge in security spending and funding.โ€

For builders, Ent.AI underscores that the security market rewards companies built AI-first rather than bolting AI onto legacy products. The threat landscape is now an AI-versus-AI contest, and the buyers with the most to lose are moving budget quickly toward defenses designed for that reality.

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