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Abnormal AI knows when a perfectly polite email is trouble
A convincing invoice can be more dangerous than a suspicious attachment. Abnormal AI built its business by learning how people normally work - and noticing when someone else borrows the script.
Eftsure checks the detail a convincing invoice can hide
A familiar email, a plausible invoice, a different bank account. Eftsure has built a business around checking the last of those before money leaves the building.
The Phishing Trap That Learned to Leave the Inbox
A former malware researcher noticed that the dangerous thing was often the page, not the file. SlashNext followed the bait from inbox to browser to phone - and Varonis paid about $106 million to bring that view into its security platform.
The Company That Put a Price on a Phish
Area 1 sold a provocative promise: catch a malicious email, earn $10. Cloudflare used the service, bought the company, and made the inbox part of its Zero Trust pitch.
Closinglock
Closinglock is an Austin-based fintech that helps title companies, real estate attorneys, and agents prevent wire fraud and modernize the closing process. Its platform moves wire instructions, payments, identity verification, document signing, and payoff retrieval out of insecure email and into a single secure portal. Founded in 2017 after a co-founder watched a client nearly lose their life savings to a phishing scam, Closinglock says it has protected more than 1 million home sales worth over $500 billion and raised $34M in Series B funding in January 2025.
Trustmi
Trustmi is a behavioral AI platform for payment security that helps enterprises stop socially engineered fraud and costly payment errors before money moves. Founded in 2021 by Shai Gabay and Eli Ben Nun, the company correlates signals across email, vendors, financial documents and payment workflows to build vendor 'digital fingerprints' and deliver a real-time safe/unsafe decision across the entire payment lifecycle. Trustmi says it protects over $240 billion in payments annually and has helped prevent more than $1 billion in fraud.
Trustifi
Trustifi is a cloud-based, AI-driven email security company that protects organizations from phishing, business email compromise, data leaks and compliance failures. Its one-stack platform pairs Inbound Shield threat detection with Outbound Shield one-click encryption and One-Click Compliance, making enterprise-grade email protection simple enough for small businesses and the managed service providers that serve them. Founded by Rom Hendler and Idan Udi Edry, the company raised a $25M Series A in 2025 to scale its channel-first, AI-powered platform.