# Adaptive Security

> Adaptive Security is a New York cybersecurity company that fights AI-powered social engineering by simulating it. Its platform mines the same public data an attacker would use, then runs personalized deepfake, voice, SMS, and email phishing drills against employees, scores who falls for them, and retrains the ones who need it. Founded in 2024 by the Attentive team, it has raised $146.5 million and signed 500-plus enterprise customers in under a year.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Brian Long (CEO & Co-Founder), Andrew Jones (Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~260 employees
- **Products:** AI Phishing & Multi-Channel Simulation, OSINT Personalization Engine, Human Risk Scoring, Security Awareness Training Content, AI Phishing Triage
- **Notable:** Raised $146.5 million total across three announcements in 2025, Secured the OpenAI Startup Fund's first and only cybersecurity investment, Signed 500+ enterprise customers in under a year of public launch

## Products & services

- **AI Phishing & Multi-Channel Simulation** — Personalized phishing drills across email, SMS (smishing), and voice (vishing), plus deepfake video and AI-cloned voice calls that impersonate executives, IT helpdesk, and vendors.
- **OSINT Personalization Engine** — Analyzes 1,000+ public data points per employee - job titles, reporting lines, recent projects, LinkedIn activity, headshots, voice recordings - to build scenarios a target would have no reason to question.
- **Human Risk Scoring** — A live behavioral readiness metric that replaces static completion-rate tracking; failed simulations can lower an employee's risk score and restrict access.
- **Security Awareness Training Content** — Targeted, adaptive training modules tied to threat exposure, available in 39+ languages with accessibility controls and a compliance content library.
- **AI Phishing Triage** — AI-assisted analysis of reported emails to help security teams triage real threats faster.

## Achievements

- Raised $146.5 million total across three announcements in 2025
- Secured the OpenAI Startup Fund's first and only cybersecurity investment
- Signed 500+ enterprise customers in under a year of public launch
- Attracted both NVIDIA and OpenAI to the same cap table
- Launched free deepfake-scam training for older adults

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — Raised $81 million Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, with NVIDIA, the OpenAI Startup Fund, a16z, Capital One Ventures, and Citi Ventures participating.
- **2025-04** — Raised $43 million Series A led by the OpenAI Startup Fund and Andreessen Horowitz - OpenAI's first cybersecurity investment.
- **2025-11** — Launched free training to protect older adults from AI-driven scams.

## Links

- Website: https://adaptivesecurity.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adaptivesecurity

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Last updated: 2026-08-19