Oligo Security raises $60M as AI speeds up exploit development

Startup Oligo Security has secured $60 million in fresh funding to bolster its product innovation and bolster its global go-to-market strategy. The runtime security software operates within applications already in use, employing sensors built on eBPF to monitor which library functions a workload actually utilizes. Most of the vulnerabilities detected by scanners are never called and can be safely ignored by customers.

Those that are called can be halted mid-exploit at the application layer, without terminating the container or the process. The introduction of Runtime Exploit Blocking in April allows Oligo to safeguard against patterns of attack techniques, rather than individual CVEs, providing a single rule for zero-day and n-day exploits sharing a pattern.

Oligo highlights this approach as a means to acquire time during patch cycles through virtual patching. The rapid advancement of AI has altered the economics of exploit development, with Nadav Czerninski, Oligo's co-founder and CEO, stating that "AI has fundamentally changed the economics of exploitation." Rapid vulnerability discovery and exploit development can now occur at machine speed, making runtime the only reliable location to accurately assess risk and prevent genuine attacks without disrupting production.

Oligo's annual recurring revenue growth reached 300% in the past year, and its valuation has surpassed double since a $50 million Series B led by Greenfield Partners in January 2025. In February, AWS named Oligo the exclusive artificial intelligence runtime security partner for AWS Security Hub's extended plan. Additionally, in June, Oligo joined Palantir Technologies' FedStart program to expedite its FedRAMP High and Defense Department Impact Level 5 authorization, prerequisites for selling to federal agencies and defense customers.

Brad Arkin, a cybersecurity adviser and former chief trust officer at Salesforce, emphasized that runtime is "the one place where security teams can accurately determine what's truly exploitable." The round was backed by Ballistic Ventures, Canon Capital, Greenfield Partners, Lightspeed Management, Red Dot Capital Partners, TLV Partners, and investor Eyal Waldman.

Waldman, who co-founded Mellanox Technologies, which Nvidia acquired for $6.9 billion, contributed to the funding. Oligo's total funding to date amounts to $140 million. The company's co-founder and CTO, Mic McCully, discussed the company's runtime protection in the new age of AI-driven attacks on theCUBE.