Sola Security has stepped out of stealth with both momentum and a clear mission: to put artificial intelligence at the heart of cybersecurity. The company announced today a $35 million Series A round led by S32, with strong backing from M12, Microsoft’s venture arm, and New Era Capital Partners. All of its existing investors returned as well, including noted venture capitalist Mike Moritz, S Capital, and Glilot Capital Partners—signaling confidence in the company’s direction and early traction.
Founded in 2024 by industry veterans Guy Flechter, former CEO and co-founder of Cider Security (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), and Ron Peled, former global CISO of LivePerson, Sola was created out of frustration with the sluggish pace of innovation in the security industry. Their vision is to use AI assistants not as gimmicks, but as true copilots for security teams—automating repetitive tasks, accelerating investigations, and enabling practitioners to design custom solutions in minutes instead of days. Gartner has already predicted this shift toward context-aware AI copilots in security, and Sola seems intent on delivering on that forecast.
In just six months since emerging from stealth, Sola has amassed more than 2,000 users who have collectively built over 1,000 custom security apps using its generative AI. These apps span critical domains such as identity and access management, cloud posture monitoring, compliance, and configuration management. This rapid adoption underscores both the hunger for AI-driven tooling and the flexibility of Sola’s platform. CEO Guy Flechter compared the company’s ambitions to the transformations wrought by Canva, Stripe, and Figma in their respective industries—bringing speed, simplicity, and customization to an area once bogged down by complexity and vendor lock-in.
The enthusiasm of investors reflects the scale of the opportunity. Wesley Tillu of S32 highlighted Sola’s combination of deep security expertise with bold AI innovation, while Todd Graham of M12 emphasized the company’s rare balance of visionary leadership and quick execution. Ziv Conen of New Era Capital Partners pointed to the discipline, speed, and technical rigor of the founding team as a differentiator, noting that Sola’s vision places it at the forefront of cybersecurity’s inevitable AI transformation.
Sola’s narrative is part of a broader industry moment. As AI remakes fields from design to payments, cybersecurity is poised for its own leap forward. Security teams face increasing complexity, relentless adversaries, and mounting workloads that can no longer be handled with incremental improvements alone. By positioning itself as the platform where security practitioners can instantly translate ideas into functional defenses, Sola is betting that the AI-first approach will define the next generation of cybersecurity.
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