Co-Founders John Ahlander and Matthew Wood Draw Upon Decades of Artificial Intelligence, Security Experience to Raise Seed Fund Led By Mercato Partners’ Prelude Fund
Partnership with Cisco protected online infrastructure during the Super Bowl
SALT LAKE CITY, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Today, alphaMountain.ai announced it has received $2.7 million in seed funding led by Mercato Partners’ Prelude Fund. The round will help the company continue developing the company’s threat intelligence, which has already landed several major partner integrations with Cisco SecureX, ReversingLabs, Cyware, Maltego and others.
alphaMountain.ai’s unique technology is based on a continuously trained neural network and actor voting system that combines data from threat feeds and real-time user network telemetry. While legacy solutions have struggled to protect enterprises due to low accuracy and poor coverage, alphaMountain.ai’s technology provides broad coverage for nearly 1 billion domains and IPs in all geographies and languages, including site malicious risk and web reputation, content classification and cybersquatting (i.e. phishing) detection.
“What’s unique about alphaMountain – aside from having two of the brightest minds in network security and machine learning at the helm – is that they are actually using AI. Many cyber tools claim to use AI but are actually using static based human authored rules.” said Zach Sivertson, partner at Mercato…