The day after Ashwin Ramaswami lost the Georgia State Senate race in November 2024, his phone rang. It was Jack Cable, a friend and former colleague at the DHS with a simple pitch: “Why don’t we start a company?”

Two months later, they’d launched Corridor to address an inconvenient truth for modern software: a growing share of production code is being written by AI, and a lot of it is arriving with the digital equivalent of unsecured doors and a welcome mat.

On Wednesday, Corridor announced $25 million in funding led by Felicis at a $200 million valuation. Among its angel investors are some high-profile names from the AI industry, including Anton Osika, billionaire CEO at vibe coding giant Lovable, and Christina Cacioppo, chief executive at $4 billion AI compliance company Vanta, as well as Mike Krieger, Instagram cofounder and now chief product officer at Anthropic.

Corridor’s product is an AI system that watches over both AI and human operators as they code, issuing alerts when vulnerabilities arise as the software is being written. The human can then make an informed decision on how to fix the problem before the code goes live.

“The speed of code creation is totally outpacing the speed of security review.” Jake Storm, VC at Felicis

“The speed of code creation is totally outpacing the speed of security review.”

It comes at a time when a glut of AI-generated code is being put online, prime for hackers to exploit. A recent study from code security company Veracode found that, while........

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