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Bold Security's trust pitch is privacy by architecture, asserted only by Bold itself. Bold's agent runs AI models on the laptop to judge user behavior and data in real time, and Bold says sensitive data never leaves the device and never trains its models. The efficacy, customer, and compliance proof points are Bold's own: the claimed 90 percent alert drop comes from its launch blog, its pages and press release name Shutterfly and Tekion, and its footer compliance badges are self-displayed per a July probe. The founder record is partly verifiable: CTech corroborates the Polyrize sale to Varonis, while the 500-million-device SAM figure traces to Bold's release. A buyer drawn to the privacy design has to test the data-handling claim directly, since no inspectable audit report is public yet.
| Description | Bold Security runs a local AI agent on every enterprise endpoint that analyzes user behavior, application use, and data interactions on the device to stop insider threats, sensitive-data leakage, and risky use of AI tools in real time. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2024 | [f2] |
| Funding | $40M total | [f2] |
| Latest funding | Series A, $28M, March 2026 (Bessemer, Picture Capital, Red Dot) | [f2] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Bold | Edge-AI endpoint agent that runs models on the device to classify data, learn user behavior, and intervene in real time against insider threats, data leakage, and risky AI-tool use. |
Cyber Defense Matrix
| Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devices Workstations, servers, phones, tablets, storage, network devices, IoT infrastructure, and similar hardware. | |||||
| Applications Software, interactions, and application flows on the devices. | |||||
| Networks Connections and traffic flowing among devices and apps, plus communication paths. | |||||
| Data Content at rest, in transit, or in use across devices, apps, and networks. | |||||
| Users The people using the devices, apps, networks, and data. |
Bold runs an AI agent on the endpoint to protect devices, users, and data against user-based risk, so it is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. Its on-device AI is the defending method rather than a defended AI asset, so it is out of scope for the AI Defense Matrix. [f3]
How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.
| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs, demos, and third-party validation. | 3/5 |
| Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. | 3/5 |
| Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. | 4/5 |
| GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. | 3/5 |
| Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. | 3/5 |
| Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. | 3/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. | 2/5 |
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| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. | 2/3 |
| Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. | 2/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. | 1/3 |
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| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | AccessNewswire: Bold Emerges from Stealth with $40M to Turn Every Endpoint into Its Own AI Security Agent | press | 2026-06-21 |
| f2 | Calcalist (CTech): Bold raises $28 million Series A | press | 2026-06-21 |
| f3 | Bold Security platform capabilities | official | 2026-06-21 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Bold Security homepage (Stop User-Based Threats at the Source) “The modern way to protect the enterprise endpoint from user-based risk - across any data, any app, any user, and any action. Bold's native AI security agent runs directly on every endpoint, bringing the power of real-time AI visibility and protection to the edge.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s2 | Bold Security homepage platform pillars “Monitor (and stop) insider threat ... Prevent sensitive data leakage. Coach users in the moment, warn, or block critical actions before data is leaked. Secure AI adoption. Control how data flows through AI tools - regardless of the application, account, or data. Investigate with full context.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s3 | Bold launch blog on on-device AI and privacy by default “Sensitive data never leaves the endpoint. Processing happens on the device, evidence stays in customer-controlled storage, and customer data is never used to train our models.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s4 | Bold launch blog on the alert-reduction claim “Early enterprise customers have seen alert volumes drop by up to 90%, giving security teams signal instead of noise and dramatically reducing investigation time.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s5 | Calcalist (CTech) on the Bold $28M Series A, founders, and funding history “To date, the company has raised a total of $40 million, including a $12 million Seed round in 2024. ... Founded in 2024 by Nati Hazut (CEO), Hadar Krasner (CPO), and Omri Mallis (CTO), Bold Security is headquartered in Tel Aviv, where it currently employs 24 people.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| s6 | Bold press release via AccessNewswire on the founder track record and named clients “He previously founded Polyrize ... acquired by Varonis ... He also founded SAM, whose technology currently protects over 500 million connected devices globally for major telecoms, including Verizon and Virgin Media. Bold ... is already working with Fortune 500 companies ... like Shutterfly, Tekion.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s7 | SiliconANGLE on Bold's edge-AI approach versus cloud-based endpoint tools “The company's approach shifts security processing directly onto devices such as laptops rather than relying on centralized cloud monitoring. ... its system runs AI models locally on devices to analyze user behavior, application usage and data interactions in real time.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| s8 | Bold press release via AccessNewswire quoting Bessemer partner Amit Karp's rationale “We chose to back Bold because we believe deeply in their vision, and even more in their team. This is a group of founders who have successfully brought products to market across agent-based systems, insider risk, and data security.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s9 | Bold homepage on zero-policy operation and named customer voices “No rules to write. No policies to tune. No false positives to chase. Bold's AI classifies and acts on the endpoint - your team gets signal, not busywork. ... With Bold, you don't have to do any setup or policy. You set it up and it just works. Carl Steeves, Deputy CISO [Shutterfly].” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s10 | Cyberhaven AI and data security platform (DSPM, DLP, Insider Risk) “Cyberhaven's AI & data security platform unifies DSPM, DLP, Insider Risk, and AI Security to protect data wherever it lives and goes across endpoints, cloud, on-prem, SaaS, and AI tools.” | official | 2026-07-01 |
| s11 | Trust probe 2026-07-14: trust./security. subdomains unresolvable, /trust /security /compliance 404, footer SOC 2 and ISO 27001 badges self-displayed “ISO 27001 Badge-Your endpoint just got smarter than your threats-bold security” | other | 2026-07-14 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Bold Security homepage (Stop User-Based Threats at the Source) “The modern way to protect the enterprise endpoint from user-based risk - across any data, any app, any user, and any action. Bold's native AI security agent runs directly on every endpoint, bringing the power of real-time AI visibility and protection to the edge.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s2 | Bold Security homepage platform pillars “Monitor (and stop) insider threat ... Prevent sensitive data leakage. Coach users in the moment, warn, or block critical actions before data is leaked. Secure AI adoption. Control how data flows through AI tools - regardless of the application, account, or data. Investigate with full context.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s3 | Bold launch blog on on-device AI and privacy by default “Sensitive data never leaves the endpoint. Processing happens on the device, evidence stays in customer-controlled storage, and customer data is never used to train our models.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s4 | Bold launch blog on the alert-reduction claim “Early enterprise customers have seen alert volumes drop by up to 90%, giving security teams signal instead of noise and dramatically reducing investigation time.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s5 | Calcalist (CTech) on the Bold $28M Series A, founders, and funding history “The round saw participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Picture Capital, and Red Dot Capital Partners. ... Founded in 2024 by Nati Hazut (CEO), Hadar Krasner (CPO), and Omri Mallis (CTO), Bold Security is headquartered in Tel Aviv, where it currently employs 24 people.” | press | 2026-07-01 |
| s6 | AccessNewswire on Bold's founder track record and named clients “He previously founded Polyrize ... acquired by Varonis ... He also founded SAM, whose technology currently protects over 500 million connected devices globally for major telecoms, including Verizon and Virgin Media. Bold ... is already working with Fortune 500 companies ... like Shutterfly, Tekion.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| s7 | SiliconANGLE on Bold's edge-AI approach versus cloud-based endpoint tools “The company's approach shifts security processing directly onto devices such as laptops rather than relying on centralized cloud monitoring. ... its system runs AI models locally on devices to analyze user behavior, application usage and data interactions in real time.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| s8 | AccessNewswire on Bessemer partner Amit Karp's rationale for backing Bold “We chose to back Bold because we believe deeply in their vision, and even more in their team. This is a group of founders who have successfully brought products to market across agent-based systems, insider risk, and data security.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| s9 | Bold homepage on zero-policy operation and named customer voices “No rules to write. No policies to tune. No false positives to chase. Bold's AI classifies and acts on the endpoint - your team gets signal, not busywork. ... With Bold, you don't have to do any setup or policy. You set it up and it just works. Carl Steeves, Deputy CISO [Shutterfly].” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s10 | Trust probe 2026-07-12: trust./security. subdomains unresolvable, /trust /security /compliance 404, footer SOC 2 and ISO 27001 badges self-displayed “ISO 27001 Badge-Your endpoint just got smarter than your threats-bold security” | other | 2026-07-12 |
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