Furl showed up the way real security companies do. Quiet for a while, heads down, watching the mess pile up. Vulnerabilities flagged, tickets opened, dashboards glowing red, and nobody actually...
Furl showed up the way real security companies do. Quiet for a while, heads down, watching the mess pile up. Vulnerabilities flagged, tickets opened, dashboards glowing red, and nobody actually fixing the thing. Detection got loud. Prioritization got fancy. Remediation stayed manual, political, and slow. That last mile kept tripping teams in steel-toed boots. Furl was built to deal with that mile, not talk about it.
Founded in July 2022 and based in Los Angeles, California 90275, Furl exists as the execution layer security teams kept pretending their tools already handled. The insight was blunt. Organizations fix roughly one out of every ten vulnerabilities they identify. Not because they do not care, but because handoffs between Security and IT turn fixes into negotiations. Backlogs grow. Context disappears. Everyone points at the same dashboard and nobody moves.
This week, Furl put numbers behind the conviction. A $10 million seed round led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from Corey Thomas in an individual capacity and Open Opportunity Fund. No prior institutional capital. No victory lap language. Just capital aligned to a problem that keeps CISOs awake and burns out operators before lunch.
The product leans into agentic AI, but not in the buzzword sense. Furl investigates the real state of systems, understands dependencies, generates context-aware fixes, executes them, validates the outcome, and rolls back if something breaks. It handles the ugly work patch tools avoid. Misconfigurations. Policy drift. Multi-step fixes that die in ticket queues. It plugs into existing stacks instead of replacing them, which is why this reads like execution, not theater.
The leadership team earned this perspective the hard way. Derek Abdine, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Censys and Head of Labs at Rapid7, holds five cybersecurity patents, and has spent over a decade watching remediation stall after detection. Zac Youtz, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, led integrations and extensibility at Rapid7 and later Automox, living inside the seams where tools meet reality. Alli Treman, Co-Founder and Head of UI/UX, brings engineering and design leadership from Censys, Skillshare, and the early hacker community at HacDC, making complex execution visible instead of intimidating.
Ten Eleven Ventures does not chase noise. Alex Doll and Mark Hatfield back security companies that fix specific pain, not abstract futures. Corey Thomas knows what 11,000 plus enterprise customers struggle to close once the scan finishes. That alignment matters.