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Kevin Mandia raised $190 million Armadin after prior sale to Google<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-03-10 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kevin Mandia testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 23, 2021 in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

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Four years ago Kevin Mandia agreed to sell his cybersecurity company Mandiant to Google for $5.4 billion. Now he’s back in the game, with Google’s help.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Mandia’s new startup, Armadin, said it raised nearly $190 million, in a funding round led by Accel. Google Ventures is participating, along with firms including Kleiner Perkins, Menlo Ventures and Ballistic Ventures, which Mandia co-founded. <\/p>\n

Mandia told CNBC in an interview that the emergence of artificial intelligence, particularly agentic AI, is having a dramatic impact on cybersecurity. Armadin creates and manages autonomous AI agents that consistently scan for threats. <\/p>\n

“I wasn’t going to sit on the sidelines watching another shift change in cybersecurity without leveraging 30 years in the industry to do something,” Mandia said. <\/p>\n

Across the tech world, companies are offering more AI-enabled tools and acquiring cyber capabilities in a scramble to supercharge their defenses as attacks rise in sophistication, speed, and intensity. Mandia co-founded Armadin in September and, in the past six months, the company has hired over 60 employees and started working with Fortune 100 companies.<\/p>\n

Mandia said Armadin is using agentic tools to complete tasks that previously took days in a matter of minutes. He said the company’s name came to him in the middle of the night, while reflecting on the 1588 Spanish Armada.<\/p>\n

“Somehow my brain remembered eighth-grade history,” he said. <\/p>\n

WATCH:<\/strong> The world of cyber threats is being professionalized<\/p>\n

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