
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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