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Circumvent says it already works with enterprises across the US, Australia, and New Zealand, yet names none of them. The startup sells a multi-agent AI system that verifies, prioritizes, and remediates cloud security findings across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, publishes no pricing, and routes buyers to a contact form. What a buyer can check independently is a short list: a seed round from repeat backer Paladin Capital, a SOC 2 Type 1 attestation dated March 2026, and the founders' history. Trend Micro bought co-founder Michael Watts's earlier company, Cloud Conformity, in 2019 for a reported 100 million dollars. Until Circumvent names a customer or publishes a case study, buyers have nothing beyond the company's own statements to confirm those deployments.
| Description | Circumvent is a cloud security company whose platform correlates and triages security findings from cloud-native, open-source, and third-party tools, normalizes them to OCSF, ranks risk by business context, and drives source-level remediation through a multi-agent AI system. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2024 | [f2] |
| HQ | Sydney, Australia and San Francisco, US | [f3] |
| Funding | $6M total | [f4] |
| Latest funding | Seed | [f4] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Circumvent | A proactive cloud security platform that correlates findings from cloud, code, and security tools, prioritizes by business context, and remediates at the source via a multi-agent AI system. |
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. |
Circumvent applies AI to correlate, prioritize, and remediate security findings across cloud applications, data, and infrastructure, so it defends conventional cloud assets and is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f1]
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. | 2/5 |
| 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. | 2/3 |
| 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. | 1/3 |
| 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 | Circumvent homepage | official | 2026-06-21 |
| f2 | Startup Daily: A cybersecurity founder with a 100 million exit is back with a new idea | press | 2026-06-21 |
| f3 | Paladin Capital Group: Circumvent Raises 6 Million to Launch Multi-Agent AI System | press | 2026-06-21 |
| f4 | SecurityWeek: Circumvent Raises 6 Million for Cloud Security Platform | press | 2026-06-21 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Circumvent homepage “Eliminate alert fatigue through automated and multi-agentic triage. Prioritize critical risks and remediate quickly without disrupting DevSecOps workflows.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s2 | Circumvent Trust Center “Formal data classification and retention policies. Customer data is segmented and never used for AI training. SOC 2 Type 1 ACTIVE. Attestation report date: March 31, 2026.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s3 | SecurityWeek: Circumvent Raises 6 Million for Cloud Security Platform “Australian cloud security startup Circumvent has announced raising $6 million in seed funding from Paladin Capital Group.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| s4 | Paladin Capital Group: Circumvent Raises 6 Million to Launch Multi-Agent AI System “Circumvent was co-founded by Michael Watts and Thomas Bui. Michael was the founder and CEO of Cloud Conformity, a former Paladin Capital Group portfolio company, which cybersecurity giant Trend Micro acquired in 2019.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| s5 | Startup Daily: A cybersecurity founder with a 100 million exit is back with a new idea “Circumvent is already working with multiple enterprises across the USA, Australia and New Zealand for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud customers.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Circumvent homepage “Protect your infrastructure and applications with a network of intelligent agents designed to autonomously verify reported risk, manage complex prioritization, and remediation tasks at scale.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s2 | Circumvent Trust Center “Formal data classification and retention policies. Customer data is segmented and never used for AI training. SOC 2 Type 1 ACTIVE. Attestation report date: March 31, 2026.” | official | 2026-06-21 |
| s4 | Paladin Capital Group: Circumvent Raises 6 Million to Launch Multi-Agent AI System “Circumvent was co-founded by Michael Watts and Thomas Bui. Michael was the founder and CEO of Cloud Conformity, a former Paladin Capital Group portfolio company, which cybersecurity giant Trend Micro acquired in 2019.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| s5 | Startup Daily: A cybersecurity founder with a 100 million exit is back with a new idea “Circumvent is already working with multiple enterprises across the USA, Australia and New Zealand for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud customers.” | press | 2026-06-21 |
| s6 | SecurityBrief Australia: Circumvent Raises 6 Million to Advance Proactive AI Cloud Security “The system uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to ingest, correlate, and enhance alerts from a broad set of cloud-native, open-source, and third-party sources.” | press | 2026-06-30 |
| s7 | SmartCompany: Two Aussie Startups That Raised 12.7 Million This Week “Watts previously founded Cloud Conformity, which secured investment from Paladin in 2018 and was later sold to cybersecurity giant Trend Micro in a $100 million deal.” | press | 2026-06-30 |
| s8 | MSSP Alert: Circumvent Raises 6M to Scale AI-Powered Cloud Security Platform “The company is working with enterprises across the US, Australia, and New Zealand, helping teams operate across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.” | press | 2026-06-30 |
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