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Mandiant founder's Armadin raises $255.5M Series B at $2.5B valuation

Kevin Mandia's new security startup Armadin has closed a $255.5 million Series B round at a valuation exceeding $2.5 billion, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint, 8VC, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Kleiner Perkins, and Menlo Ventures. The round follows a $190 million Series A just six months earlier, bringing Armadin's total funding to over $445 million. The company builds always-on 'agentic swarms' that continuously probe enterprise systems for vulnerabilities, chaining weaknesses together in a manner meant to replicate how attackers might exploit them.

Amazon names Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to its board of directors

Amazon announced that Kevin Mandia, who founded Mandiant and sold it to Google for $5.4 billion, will join its board. Mandia left Google in 2024 and has since started an AI-driven vulnerability-detection company called Armadin while remaining a general partner at Ballistic Ventures. As part of the appointment, he received roughly $1 million in stock that vests starting in 2027.