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19 mars 2026
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Voir →Backslash Security announced a $19 million Series A funding round led by KOMPAS VC, with participation from Maniv, Artofin Venture Capital, and existing investors StageOne Ventures and First Rays Capital. The round, which follows Backslash’s $8 million seed funding, tracks the rapid grassroots shift from AI-assisted coding to autonomous AI agents that software development teams use to generate, modify, and deploy code—reshaping the entire software developer ecosystem and introducing a new attack surface that Backslash is built to address.
Backslash also announced that seasoned cybersecurity leader and investor Ron Zoran, formerly Chief Revenue Officer at CyberArk, will join the company’s board of directors as an independent member.
Organizations are ceding direct control over how software is created and changed as IDE integrations, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and LLMs are embedded in development workflows. Traditional AppSec and AI point solutions lack the context and speed to track how AI-generated code is produced, how agents modify it, how lineage and intent are preserved, and how it ultimately flows into production. As a result, security teams are left blind to a growing attack surface as AI-driven development innovation and adoption accelerate. A recent Gartner® report states that, "by 2028, 40% of new enterprise production software will be created with vibe coding techniques and tools."
A Holistic, Stack-Level Approach to Vibe Coding Security
The industry’s first security provider focused entirely on securing vibe coding and AI-native coding, Backslash delivers an end-to-end security platform designed specifically for AI-native development environments. In stark contrast to point solutions and general AI security tools, which lack critical software development context, Backslash protects the business processes of AI-assisted software development, not just individual development tools. Its approach covers the full AI development stack, including IDEs, AI agents, MCPs, prompting workflows, generated code, and governance controls.
The Backslash Security platform combines multiple security techniques into a single platform, granting organizations visibility into their AI development stack while also granting the ability to apply guardrails across all tools to provide real-time monitoring and protection to detect and respond to malicious behaviors.
The new funding will be used to expand Backslash’s R&D talent and operations, deepening the Backslash platform’s capabilities, and to scale its go-to-market presence in the United States and Europe to support growing demand from enterprise security teams.
