Guardio

Cybersecurity · Consumer Tech

Funding

Guardio raises $40M at $1.1B valuation, becomes cybersecurity unicorn

A round worth barely 3.5% of the new price tag shows how little fresh capital it took to reach a ten-figure valuation.

• Guardio raised $40 million at a $1.1 billion valuation, with Wiz co-founder and CEO Assaf Rappaport joining as a new personal investor alongside returning backers ION Crossover Partners, Union Tech Ventures, Vintage Investment Partners, Cerca Partners and Emerge Ventures.
• Founded in Tel Aviv in 2018 by Amos Peled, Daniel Sirota and Michael Vainshtein, Guardio sells a browser extension and mobile tools that flag phishing, malicious sites, identity theft and AI-generated scams in real time.
• The company reports more than $150 million in annual recurring revenue, over one million paying customers, and four straight years of 100%-plus year-over-year growth, on $167 million in total funding since 2018.
• At $150M+ ARR, the $1.1 billion valuation implies no more than roughly a 7.3x revenue multiple, and the new $40 million represents only about 3.5-3.6% of the post-financing value under a simple equity assumption.
• CEO Amos Peled said the round was kept small because existing investors wanted to increase their holdings rather than because the company needed more capital.
• Guardio cites data showing nearly three in four U.S. adults faced a scam or attack last year, with the FBI logging 22,000 AI-related complaints and cybercrime losses reaching $20.9 billion.
• A consumer antivirus category once considered slow-growth just produced a unicorn on modest funding, signaling investors now treat AI-driven scams targeting people, not devices, as the next major cybersecurity spend.