Maze Funding News -London-Based Maze Secures €21.8 M In Series A Round

The fresh capital will help grow the team and explore new use cases for its AI-powered security platform.

The round was led by Theory Ventures, with support from existing investors Cherry Ventures and Tapestry VC. This follows Maze’s €5.2 million Seed round just 9 months ago, bringing its total funding to €27 million—all within less than a year since the company was founded.

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“Before starting Maze, we talked to hundreds of security professionals and heard the same complaint again and again – dealing with vulnerabilities is a nightmare,” said Harry Wetherald, Maze CEO and Co-founder. “Security teams are already struggling today, and as attackers get their hands on AI, things are only going to get more difficult. While AI gives us the ability to build better security tools, it is also enabling bad actors to deliver complex attacks at scale. Our goal is to give security teams the tools they need to fight back.”

Maze was founded by Harry Wetherald, Adrian Jozwik, and Santiago Castineira, who previously held leadership roles in product, design, and engineering at Tessian, Elastic, and Amazon.

They teamed up with experienced engineers from Meta, Adyen, and Nvidia to develop Maze’s first AI agent by replicating how top security analysts work.

These AI agents are already being used in production by over ten organizations, including two Fortune 200 companies and several fast-growing tech firms.

“Maze’s product is almost too good to be true. It is a truly novel use of Agentic AI that goes well beyond automating manual workflows,” said Mandy Andress, CISO at Elastic.

Vulnerabilities are becoming a major challenge for modern security teams. In 2024, exploitation of vulnerabilities rose by 34%, making it a bigger threat than phishing. At the same time, the number of known vulnerabilities (CVEs) increased by nearly 40%.

Most companies can only fix around 10% of these each month, while attackers are becoming more effective with the help of AI—creating an urgent need for smarter solutions.

Maze’s AI agents are built to think and act like human analysts, rather than follow fixed rules. By running thousands of these agents across a customer's cloud environment, Maze can pinpoint the small number of vulnerabilities that are actually exploitable and likely to lead to a breach—and automatically fix them.

Starting with an agent that handles investigation, triage, and resolution of cloud vulnerabilities, Maze is working toward a fully AI-native security platform.

“To keep pace with attackers, security tools will need to be re-written to be AI-native,” said Andy Triedman, Partner at Theory Ventures and latest addition to the Maze Board. “While today’s vulnerability management tools are built to aggregate data for human analysts, Maze is designed from the ground up for autonomous investigations and triage.”

About Maze

Founded in 2024, Maze is building a new kind of security platform that uses AI agents to prevent cloud security breaches before they happen. The company’s first agent focuses on investigating, prioritizing, and fixing vulnerabilities.