{"id":223417,"date":"2026-03-10T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/kai-emerges-from-stealth-with-125m-in-funding-for-ai-platform-bridging-it-and-ot-security\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T02:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:05:14","slug":"kai-emerges-from-stealth-with-125m-in-funding-for-ai-platform-bridging-it-and-ot-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/kai-emerges-from-stealth-with-125m-in-funding-for-ai-platform-bridging-it-and-ot-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Kai Emerges From Stealth With $125M in Funding for AI Platform Bridging IT and OT Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/kai-emerges-from-stealth-with-125m-in-funding-for-ai-platform-bridging-it-and-ot-security\/\">Kai Emerges From Stealth With $125M in Funding for AI Platform Bridging IT and OT Security<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/kai-emerges-from-stealth-with-125m-in-funding-for-ai-platform-bridging-it-and-ot-security\/\">https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/kai-emerges-from-stealth-with-125m-in-funding-for-ai-platform-bridging-it-and-ot-security\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-10 11:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.securityweek.com\">www.securityweek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kai on Tuesday emerged from stealth mode with $125 million in funding for an AI-powered platform that aims to bridge IT and OT cybersecurity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The investment, raised over seed and Series A funding rounds, comes from Evolution Equity Partners, N47, and other investors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The funding will be used for R&#038;D, scaling the company\u2019s platform, and accelerating go-to-market efforts.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose, CA-based Kai was founded by Galina Antova (CEO) and Damiano Bolzoni (CTO). Antova (a former SecurityWeek contributor) previously co-founded OT security giant Claroty, while Bolzoni co-founded SecurityMatters, an OT security firm that was acquired by Forescout Technologies in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The company says its platform leverages AI to autonomously and continuously perform critical cybersecurity tasks across IT and OT environments.<\/p>\n<p>The platform provides a wide range of capabilities, including for threat detection, application and identity security, threat modeling, cyber asset enrichment, risk profiling, vulnerability management, shadow IT\/OT discovery, threat intelligence distillation, regulatory compliance automation, and log optimization.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy co-founder Dr. Damiano Bolzoni and I spent years helping converge IT and OT security. Two worlds that everyone said couldn\u2019t be unified. With Kai, we\u2019re doing it again, at a larger scale: dissolving the walls between security, engineering, and IT entirely,\u201d said Antova.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: Escape Raises $18 Million to Automate Pentesting<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: Cylake Raises $45 Million to Secure Organizations Barred From Cloud<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: Gambit Security Emerges From Stealth With $61 Million in Funding<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: Venice Security Emerges From Stealth With $33M Funding for Privileged Access Management\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/kai-emerges-from-stealth-with-125m-in-funding-for-ai-platform-bridging-it-and-ot-security\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kai Emerges From Stealth With $125M in Funding for AI Platform Bridging IT and OT&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cyber-funding.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24,27],"class_list":["post-223417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223419,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223417\/revisions\/223419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}