Manifold Raises $8M Seed Round To Secure Endpoints
Manifold announced on March 18, 2026 that it closed an $8 million seed funding round led by Costanoa Ventures, with participation from Cherry Ventures, Rain Capital, Modern Technical Fund and angels including Joe Sullivan and Vijay Bolina. The company said it will use the capital to develop its agentic AI Detection and Response (AIDR) platform to secure autonomous AI on enterprise endpoints, enabling safer adoption at scale.
Key Points
- 1Raised $8M seed led by Costanoa Ventures with angels Joe Sullivan and Vijay Bolina
- 2Targets growing autonomous AI risks on endpoints by developing an agentic AIDR platform
- 3Enables enterprises to adopt agentic AI securely, informing security and operations deployment strategies
Scoring Rationale
Official seed funding and clear enterprise security focus, limited by low novelty and press-release level depth.
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