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Securing AI-Written Software Became a Funded Category on July 20 — $125M Into Two Startups in One Day
Boston-based Neo raised $100M in combined seed and Series A from a16z, Bessemer, Craft Ventures, and Merlin Ventures to help teams 'see, review, and control AI-enabled software,' and Empirical Security raised $25M Series A led by Brightmind Partners with HPA and Costanoa to predict threats by monitoring exploited vulnerabilities. A $100M seed-plus-A is an unusual structure — it signals investors treating AI application security as a land-grab where the winner needs enterprise distribution immediately, not iteration time. For builders, this is the counterweight to vibe-coded internal tools: the same shift that lets ops teams replace SaaS in days is creating a review surface nobody owns yet.
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