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title: "Clearly AI Raises $8.4M Seed Round to Scale Product Security"
description: "We are thrilled to announce that we have been selected as a Top 10 Finalist for the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox Contest!"
canonical: https://clearly-ai.com/blog/seed-round
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# Clearly AI Raises $8.4M Seed Round to Scale Product Security

_Emily Choi-Greene · 2026-02-10 · Company Updates_

We are thrilled to announce that we have been selected as a [**Top 10 Finalist for the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox Contest**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/finalists-announced-for-rsac-innovation-sandbox-contest-2026-302683184.html). Alongside this honor, we are sharing that we’ve raised a total of **$8.4 million in Seed funding** to accelerate our mission of automating the most painful bottleneck in the enterprise: security and privacy reviews.

We are excited to work with our investors, including [Basis Set Ventures](https://www.basisset.com/), [Crosspoint Capital Partners](https://crosspointcapital.com/), [Argon Ventures](https://www.argon.vc/), [Ritual Capital](https://ritualcapital.com/), and [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/). We are also backed by an incredible group of advisors, including the former CISOs of Amplitude and OKX, the former CEO of Reddit, and the former CPO of Brex.

Security teams are currently overwhelmed. Every new feature, third-party vendor, and AI deployment requires a rigorous evaluation for security, privacy, and compliance risk.

But while engineering teams have adopted AI-assisted development to ship faster than ever, the security process has remained stubbornly manual. It involves reassembling context from scattered documents, chasing developers for answers, and manually pasting results into spreadsheets.

**Teams are left with a false choice:**

1. **Triage and Skip:** Move fast and accept unknown risks.
2. **Block and Review:** Delay feature launches for weeks to ensure safety.

Joe and I spent years leading hundreds of these reviews at Amazon and Moveworks for Alexa AI, Project Kuiper, and enterprise AI systems. We started Clearly AI to fix the painful process we kept suffering through. [(Why we started Clearly AI)](/blog/why-we-started-clearly-ai)

Clearly AI is live with Fortune 500s and global brands like Ericsson and Rivian, where we've successfully **cut security review time by 90%**. We've reviewed thousands of security-critical products, from badge scanners to stablecoin platforms to autonomous driving features. Companies like HID Global, Affirm, Webflow, and Okta trust Clearly AI to keep pace with their engineering velocity without compromising review quality.

## Join Us at RSAC 2026

On **March 23rd**, we will take the stage at the RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest. We invite you to follow our journey:

- **Watch the Pitch:** Join us at the main stage to see how we’re redefining product security.
- **Visit the Expo:** Meet the team in person at the Early Stage Expo.

**See the Product:** Can’t wait for March? [**Contact Enterprise Sales**](/demo) to see how we can clear your review queue.

## Learn more

- [Secure everything that ships](https://clearly-ai.com)
- [We built the tool we wished we had](https://clearly-ai.com/about-us)
- [One platform. From intake to remediation.](https://clearly-ai.com/platform)
- [Know everything that needs a review. Skip the 300-question form.](https://clearly-ai.com/platform/security-intake)
- [Ask only what matters. Get it right the first time.](https://clearly-ai.com/platform/conversational-intake)
- [Every finding, tracked to a decision](https://clearly-ai.com/platform/resolve/risk-registry)
- [Show leadership and auditors exactly what security reviewed](https://clearly-ai.com/platform/resolve/reporting)
- [Security reviews you can stand behind, every time](https://clearly-ai.com/platform/quality)
- [Threat models built from the tools you already use](https://clearly-ai.com/integrations)
- [Threat models that know about today's attacks](https://clearly-ai.com/platform/threat-intelligence)
- [Automate every step around the review](https://clearly-ai.com/platform/workflows)
- [Threat models your teams can work on together](https://clearly-ai.com/platform/collaboration)
- [Understand the system before the review starts](https://clearly-ai.com/platform/enterprise-context-graph)
- [Trust, security, and deployment](https://clearly-ai.com/platform/trust-security-and-deployment)
- [Every plan reviewed. Every risky change threat modeled.](https://clearly-ai.com/platform/ide-and-mcp)
- [Verify what actually shipped](https://clearly-ai.com/platform/control-and-remediation-verification)
- [A current threat model for everything that ships](https://clearly-ai.com/solutions/continuous-threat-modeling)
- [Prove every product that ships meets your security bar](https://clearly-ai.com/solutions/product-security-assurance)
- [Privacy reviews your team can stake decisions on](https://clearly-ai.com/solutions/privacy)
- [Every vendor reviewed against your standards](https://clearly-ai.com/solutions/third-party-risk)
- [Review every design before it's built](https://clearly-ai.com/solutions/design-and-architecture-reviews)
- [Secure the AI you build, buy, and code with](https://clearly-ai.com/solutions/ai-agentic-security)
- [Every regulation you answer to. One review process.](https://clearly-ai.com/solutions/compliance)
- [Every product ready for the Cyber Resilience Act without growing your team](https://clearly-ai.com/solutions/compliance/cyber-resilience-act)
- [Build vs. buy for security review automation](https://clearly-ai.com/compare/claude-chatgpt)
- [The ThreatModeler alternative built from your own docs, code, and policies](https://clearly-ai.com/compare/threatmodeler)
- [The Clover Security alternative with findings your team can trust](https://clearly-ai.com/compare/clover)
- [The Prime Security alternative for every review your team runs](https://clearly-ai.com/compare/prime)
- [Security and Privacy](https://clearly-ai.com/trust/security-privacy)
- [Clearly AI Privacy Policy](https://clearly-ai.com/trust/privacy-policy)
- [Clearly AI Subprocessors](https://clearly-ai.com/trust/subprocessors)
- [AI Risk Reviews](https://clearly-ai.com/use-cases/ai-risk-reviews)
- [Automate Triage](https://clearly-ai.com/use-cases/automate-triage)
- [Privacy Impact Assessments](https://clearly-ai.com/use-cases/privacy-impact)
- [Vendor Risk Assessments](https://clearly-ai.com/use-cases/vendor-risk)
- [Threat Modeling](https://clearly-ai.com/use-cases/threat-modeling)
- [Contact](https://clearly-ai.com/contact)
- [Contact Enterprise Sales](https://clearly-ai.com/demo)
- [Latest from the Clearly AI blog](https://clearly-ai.com/blog)
- [In the news](https://clearly-ai.com/press)
- [How Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions cut review times by up to 80%](https://clearly-ai.com/customer-stories/ericsson)
- [How HID Global reviews 300+ products for the Radio Equipment Directive with the team it already has](https://clearly-ai.com/customer-stories/hid-global)
- [How Rivian scaled privacy and AI governance reviews 4x without adding headcount](https://clearly-ai.com/customer-stories/rivian)
- [Part 2! Okay, privacy is different from security. Now what?](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/part-2-okay-privacy-is-different-from-security-now-what)
- [How AI is rewiring our product engineering workflow](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/how-ai-is-rewiring-our-product-engineering-workflow)
- [Good Data Scientists and Bad Outcomes, Part 1: What's the difference between security and privacy work?](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/good-data-scientists-and-bad-outcomes-what-s-the-difference-between-security-and-privacy-work)
- [Why I Joined Clearly AI](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/why-vp-marketing-joined-clearly-ai)
- [Skip the Marketing: Clearly AI for Technical People](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/clearly-ai-technical-explanation)
- [Clearly AI Raises $8.4M Seed Round to Scale Product Security](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/seed-round)
- [Why We Started Clearly AI](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/why-we-started-clearly-ai)
- [Applying AI to Threat Modeling - Where AI Thrives, Survives, and Dies](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/applying-ai-to-threat-modeling)
- [Why We Build in Public](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/why-we-build-in-public)
- [Solving the Threat Modeling Bottleneck with AI Workflows](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/solving-the-threat-modeling-bottleneck-with-ai-workflows)
- [Clearly AI Named Finalist in the 2025 Okta Startup Challenge](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/clearly-ai-named-finalist-in-the-2025-okta-startup-challenge)
- [Security, SOC 2, & Startups](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/security-soc-2-startups)
- [Building Reliable AI Systems for Security and Privacy Reviews](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/building-reliable-ai-systems-for-security-and-privacy-reviews)
- [How to Automate Security and Privacy Reviews with Clearly AI](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/how-to-automate-security-and-privacy-reviews-with-clearly-ai)
- [One Year of Clearly AI](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/one-year-of-clearly-ai)
- [Navigating EU RED Compliance: Meeting the August 2025 Deadline](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/navigating-eu-red-compliance-meeting-the-august-2025-deadline)
- [The AI Engineer Cheat Sheet](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/the-ai-engineer-cheat-sheet)
- [Intelligent Vendor Risk Assessments](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/intelligent-vendor-risk-assessments)
- [Clearly AI wins the AWS Bedrock Builder's Challenge](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/clearly-ai-wins-the-aws-bedrock-builder-s-challenge)
- [Reviews, reviews, reviews!](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/reviews-reviews-reviews)
- [Halfway through YC](https://clearly-ai.com/blog/halfway-through-yc)
- [llms.txt — site overview for LLMs](https://clearly-ai.com/llms.txt)
- [llms-full.txt — full site content for LLMs](https://clearly-ai.com/llms-full.txt)
- [sitemap.xml — all public routes](https://clearly-ai.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Documentation](https://docs.clearly-ai.com/docs)

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