He Hacked Teslas For Elon Musk. Now He’s Launching A $100 Million AI Cyber Agent.
Yoni Ramon has been one of Elon Musk’s favorite cybersecurity guys for over a decade. He led the in-house hacking team at Tesla for six years, breaking into vehicles, robots and solar products to find their weaknesses and fix them. And Musk brought in Ramon to secure X data during his notorious acquisition of the company.
Now Ramon is launching his own startup. Valued at $100 million as it comes out stealth Wednesday, Pi sells an AI system that acts as a superpowered security staffer, quickly assessing which vulnerabilities to prioritize and patch at scale. As chief product officer, Ramon has teamed up with ex-Microsoft senior security researcher Guy Arazi, who is CEO. The pair have raised $35 million in a round led by Brightmind Partners and Third Point Ventures. Also investing are George Kurtz, CEO of $160 billion market cap cyber company CrowdStrike, and Yevgeny Dibrov........
