Amjad Masad built a $3 billion company that lets anyone publish iOS apps by typing a sentence. Revenue grew 15x. But security researchers found vibe-coded apps ship with critical vulnerabilities. The friction he removed wasn't just bureaucracy.
Attackers already use AI. Novee just handed defenders the same weapon. Three Unit 8200 veterans built an AI pen tester, raised $51.5M in eight months, and signed customers faster than most startups hire engineers. The race is on.
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Attackers already use AI. Novee just handed defenders the same weapon. Three Unit 8200 veterans built an AI pen tester, raised $51.5M in eight months, and signed customers faster than most startups hire engineers. The race is on.
Ido Geffen spent twenty years breaking into systems for Israel's intelligence services. So did Gon Chalamish. So did Omer Ninburg. In May 2025, they decided to automate themselves. Not because the work was boring. Because the defenders were losing and nobody could hire enough humans to catch up.
The gap wasn't intelligence or budget. It was time. Software ships continuously. Attackers probe continuously. Penetration tests happen twice a year. That math creates a permanent vulnerability window. Novee built an AI to close it.
Eight months later, the company emerged from stealth with $51.5 million, dozens of enterprise customers, and a proprietary model that outperforms frontier LLMs on exploitation tasks by 55%. Investors don't move this fast for incremental improvements. They move this fast when the ground is shifting.
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Amjad Masad built a $3 billion company that lets anyone publish iOS apps by typing a sentence. Revenue grew 15x. But security researchers found vibe-coded apps ship with critical vulnerabilities. The friction he removed wasn't just bureaucracy.
OneBrief's $2.15B valuation on $19M revenue bets military planning software can become a platform before Palantir notices. The Battle Road acquisition complicates the math: the simulation engine was already running on Palantir infrastructure.
When Google locked AlphaFold 3 behind commercial restrictions, three MIT PhD students rebuilt it in four months. Now Boltz has $28M, a Pfizer partnership, and a bet that open-source can capture drug discovery infrastructure.
Hollywood calls it bootlegging. Investors say $6.5 billion. MiniMax built the top Chinese AI app in America—then Disney sued. With 70% of revenue overseas, the startup tests whether Chinese AI can scale while depending on Western courts.
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