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Mandiant’s founder just raised $190M for his autonomous AI agent security startup
Publisher description: Mandia, who sold his previous company Mandiant to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022, has launched an agentic security startup.
TechCrunch | Mar 10, 2026 | Julie Bort
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Prior to Armadin, Mandia, an internationally recognized security expert, had been a VC at Ballistic Ventures. That’s the security specialist fund co-founded by famed security VC Ted Schlein, formerly of Kleiner Perkins. Mandia’s co-founders at Armadin are former Google Cloud Security principal engineer Travis Lanham; former Mandiant exec Evan Peña; and former Google SecOps engineer David Slater.
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