New York, 7th August 2025 – WiseBee, a cybersecurity startup building an on-demand, autonomous security team that monitors, detects, and neutralizes threats, has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate development and deployment of its Agentic cyber risk mitigation platform.
Headquartered in New York with an R&D center in Sofia, Bulgaria, WiseBee flips the traditional cybersecurity model. Instead of just surfacing alerts, it autonomously fixes them using AI-powered remediation workflows, bringing enterprise-grade security to mid-sized organizations.
The company is already working with lead customers, including a local US government as well as top fintech, banking, and space tech institutions across Europe.
The Team Behind WiseBee
WiseBee was founded by Stoyan Stoyanov (CEO) and Taha Kazi (CDO). Stoyan is a serial founder with a strong track record in cybersecurity and building impactful products for modern security teams. He previously led product at SecurityScorecard, where he helped the company scale beyond unicorn status and become a trusted platform for Fortune 500 security teams. Taha brings AI and data engineering experience from SecurityScorecard, Deloitte, and Amazon, with expertise in building intelligent automation tools for security teams. Together, they lead a globally distributed team that uniquely combines cybersecurity leadership with breakthrough AI and machine learning expertise to pioneer an AI-powered platform that will reshape how security teams operate.
“Most cybersecurity tools are reactive, siloed, and designed for large enterprises with hefty budgets,” said Stoyan Stoyanov, “We are building something fundamentally different: an autonomous system of security agents that detect and mitigate risks around the clock – 24/7”
Real Traction in Regulated, Mission-Critical Environments
Cybersecurity remains one of the most resource-intensive functions in modern organizations, often relying on complex tools and large teams to stay ahead of threats. For mid-sized security teams, this creates a critical gap with too many alerts and too few people to act.
WiseBee is already securing critical environments in both public and private sectors:
- A Local US Government is using the platform to monitor vendors, assess third-party risk, and resolve vulnerabilities automatically.
- A global fintech unicorn leverages the platform to streamline vendor risk and reduce time-to-action.
- A next-gen space tech company uses WiseBee to protect a complex digital footprint across cloud and vendor ecosystems.
- A Bulgarian bank and a pan-European fintech provider, both DORA-regulated institutions, use WiseBee for proactive attack surface management.
Pilot programs are underway with CISOs in fintech, banking, government, defense, and telecom. By enabling real-time resolution without additional headcount, WiseBee cuts time-to-response from days to hours.
Global Backing for Global Ambitions
The round was led by Frontline Ventures and BrightCap Ventures, with participation from a U.S.-based investment firm and angel investors with cybersecurity experience.
Frontline Ventures, which backs ambitious tech companies across the US and Europe, and positions them to win the transatlantic market, recognized the urgency of WiseBee’s mission.
“AI brings huge benefits but also new security threats, from rogue agents to unvetted tools and chaotic tech stacks. Stoyan and Taha are building exactly what stretched infosec teams need: AI-native agents that go beyond alerts to deliver full remediation. We’ve been impressed by their speed and traction so far and are excited to back them as they scale across Europe and the US.”
— Zoe Chambers, Partner at Frontline Ventures
BrightCap Ventures, a Sofia-based fund backing deep-tech and SaaS startups with strong Eastern European engineering talent, echoed this view:
“Cybersecurity is no longer just about better alerts; it’s about intelligent context and precise autonomous actions. Wisebee delivers on all fronts, thanks to Stoyan and Taha’s deep industry expertise, AI innovations, and customer-first approach. We are delighted to partner with Wisebee as they bring their product to thousands more organizations and continue growing their team with top AI talent.”
— Dimitar Korsakov, Principal at BrightCap Ventures
The funding round is also backed by strategic angel investors — including CEOs and CISOs of unicorn companies from the US and Europe.
Targeting a $60B+ Market
WiseBee serves mid-sized organizations (200–2,000 employees) in regulated sectors like finance, fintech, healthcare, and digital identity, companies that face enterprise-level threats but lack the resources to manage them.
The platform acts as the AI brain above the security stack, integrating threat intelligence, attack surface monitoring, and vendor risk into a single, autonomous system.
The company is actively expanding across Europe and North America, with early traction in the CEE, UK, DACH, and U.S. West Coast regions.
What’s Next: Scaling Product and Team
WiseBee will leverage this funding to enhance its platform’s autonomous capabilities, expand integrations, and grow its team to support product-led growth. The company is also laying the groundwork for its next funding round and a community-driven approach to cyber defence.
About WiseBee
WiseBee is an AI-powered cybersecurity platform for mid-sized organizations. By combining autonomous agents, actionable insights, and deep integrations, it enables lean security teams to detect, prioritize, and resolve threats at scale.
