Wraithwatch: Continuously Adaptive Cybersecurity Defense for Today’s Attacks
Unique people with unique professional experiences come from unique networks and tend to build incredible companies. In the case of Nik Seetharman, Savannah Grace Clemente, and Carlos Mas, this principle holds true. They are some of the world's greatest security professionals, having mastered their craft at Anduril, SpaceX, and Palantir. They’ve defended the most important companies, government groups, and ultimately nations from cyber threats. Now, they have united against what they see as the most important problem to fix for security practitioners: the latest breed of cyber attacks generated by new AI technology and techniques that can mutate and replicate faster than current security solutions will be able to keep up with.
There is a growing tidal wave of autonomous, rapidly mutating cyber weapons powered by LLM-backed reasoning agents, and our collective lack of preparation will put American and allied industrial bases at risk. With the sophistication of AI and LLMs today, attacks can be orchestrated by generating advanced malware that automates mutations and offensive attacks. These attacks can fly under the radar with few notifications to alert humans. Furthermore, for engineers, it is still arduous to receive an alert, understand the nature of the threat, and launch counterdefenses in your own environment. In order to keep up, the entire response cycle needs to be shortened from weeks to minutes.
Enter Wraithwatch – a security company purpose-built to fight against these continuously mutating attacks by creating a continuously adaptive defensive system utilizing gain-of-function research. This is a method of research where offensive agents actively fight defensive agents in a series of tournaments to train the defense side to actively predict, detect, and eradicate attacks to improve preparedness efforts. Wraithwatch will sit above a company's current security stack and assess security scenarios via an autonomous attacker to train the security system to adapt defense against various threats using the gain-of-function series.
Anduril’s COO Matt Grimm first mentioned Nik years back as he expanded his role within the company, eventually becoming their CISO. We were introduced to the full team through our close friend Trae Stephens at Founders Fund, who was also a co-founder of Anduril. These networks are meaningful to us - we are a proud, long-time capital supporter of Anduril, dating back to their seed round in 2017. We witness the culture of excellence that founders coming out of Anduril create in their next endeavors, hard-won from their deep-lived experience in building for both the public and private sectors. This culture will inspire the next great public sector company, as Anduril founders have the experience and skills to recruit a best-in-class team with the dual-purpose expertise necessary to support their growth.
Nik, Grace, and Carlos are a part of this ecosystem, having deep expertise in their craft, a systems-level understanding of the scale and complexity of problems they have encountered, and finally, a strong sense of the solutions that need to be built. They have the founder attributes to successfully bring Wraithwatch to market and into the hands of security engineers and companies that need their product the most.
We are tremendously excited for these founders to build a transformative security company and for the launch of Wraithwatch with $8M in seed capital from us, alongside Founders Fund and Human Capital.
