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Funding and backers

Total raised
$124M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$81M
Series B · Dec 2025 · 9 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
8
open roles
Backers
5
Andreessen Horowitz, Abstract
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
30/100
a new city, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Dec 16, 2025 Raised a round Series B $81M · SiliconANGLE Apr 2, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $43M · SiliconANGLE 2024 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.82%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Dec 2025 $81M — SiliconANGLE
Venture round Apr 2025 $43M — SiliconANGLE
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How Adaptive Security hires

Truth index
B 84/100
Median time to fill
59 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
63%
Reposted roles
0%

Adaptive Security scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 63% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 59 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Adaptive Security is the human security platform for the AI era — protecting 1,000+ companies worldwide against deepfakes, AI phishing, and social engineering attacks.

News

News AdaptiveSec 4 months ago
Security Training, Reimagined with Conan O'Brien
Mandatory training, voluntarily watched. Fifteen short security-training films made with Conan O'Brien - free for your whole team to enjoy and learn from.
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News Pulse 2.0 10 months ago
Adaptive Security: $81 Million Series B Secured To Counter AI Powered Cyber Threats
Adaptive Security has raised an $81 million in Series B funding as it scales a platform designed to help organizations defend against AI-enabled impersonation, deepfakes, and multi-channel social engineering attacks. The round was led by Bain Capital Vent
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News SiliconANGLE 10 months ago
Adaptive Security raises $81M to expand AI-driven social engineering defense platform
Adaptive Security raises $81M to expand AI-driven social engineering defense platform - SiliconANGLE
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News Pulse 2.0 1 year ago
Adaptive Security: Additional OpenAI Investment Brings Series A To $55 Million
Adaptive Security, a company focused on preventing social engineering attacks powered by artificial intelligence, has announced an additional investment from the OpenAI Startup Fund. This new funding brings the total raised in its Series A round to $55 mi
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News SiliconANGLE 1 year ago
Adaptive Security raises $43M for its AI cyberattack simulation platform
Adaptive Security raises $43M for its AI cyberattack simulation platform - SiliconANGLE
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News CNBC 1 year ago
AI-powered cyberattacks: Adaptive Security CEO Brian Long on the dangers of AI
Brian Long, Adaptive Security co-founder and CEO, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss how the company is simulating AI-powered cyberattacks to provide risk assessments for its clients, how to prevent AI-powered cyberattacks, and more.
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News arXiv.org 1 year ago
Gandalf the Red: Adaptive Security for LLMs
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2501.07927: Gandalf the Red: Adaptive Security for LLMs
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News bostinno.streetwise.co 10 years ago
Ex-Yahoo CIO launching an 'adaptive security' startup Read more
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Adaptive Security over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
14
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
87/100AI adopter
Languages
Java15%
TypeScript15%
Python8%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch8%
TensorFlow8%
Spring Boot8%
Databases
PostgreSQL8%
Cloud & platforms
OpenAI100%
AWS15%
AWS Bedrock8%
Amazon SageMaker8%
AI & ML
Claude15%
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Full Adaptive Security tech stack 14 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$150k
Typical range
$70k – $300k
Open positions
5
4 Jobs
Junior 25%
Middle 25%
Senior 50%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $100k $100k
Middle 1 $300k $300k
Senior 2 $150k $150k
Highest paying role Software Engineer, Product & Platform $300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Adaptive Security By role, level and city, against the market · 5 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
83/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
8
3 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
53 days
faster than 26% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
38% ▲
Customer Success
25% ▼
Finance
13% ▼
Marketing
13% ▼
Solutions
13% ▲
Actively hiring for Product (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: United States Oct 2026
New location: Los Angeles Sep 2026
Added Claude to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
New location: Sydney Sep 2026
New location: London Sep 2026
Added Baseten to stack Sep 2026
Added X (Twitter) to stack Sep 2026
Added OpenAI to stack Aug 2026
Added Amazon SageMaker to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
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New York United States
HQ
7 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 29% engineering 200-500 est. staff $155k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Customer Success, AI/ML
seen since Jan 2025 job postings
Broadway United States
Regional office
120 Broadway, 12FL,
New York, NY 10271
company site
Earlier presence
London, United Kingdom 1 open roles · last posting Feb 2026
Sydney, Australia 1 open roles · last posting Feb 2026

Jobs

≈ $141k – $291k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • New York
OpenAI
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≈ $166k – $312k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • New York
Python
Java
TypeScript
Spark
AWS Bedrock
TensorFlow
PyTorch
OpenAI
Amazon SageMaker
Baseten
DevOps
AWS
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$125k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • New York
Java
TypeScript
Spring Boot
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
OpenAI
DevOps
AWS
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Financials

Total raised
$124M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2025 $81M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $43M Details