Northstar Security, a startup developing AI agents for security teams, has emerged from stealth mode with $7 million in seed funding.
Wing Venture Capital led the round. Gerhard Eschelbeck, Renaud Deraison and Justin Somaini, MVPs, Outliers and cybersecurity veterans, also invested.
The company ingests data from existing security and IT tools to create what it calls a security context graph. Updated in real time, the chart shows how identities, assets, applications, vulnerabilities and business systems connect to each other.
North Star aims to capture so-called toxic combinations. Issues such as a vulnerability, an unmanaged device, or an overprivileged account may seem overpowered on their own, but together they can expose critical business systems.
For example, the platform could flag a laptop that lacks endpoint protection and is owned by a privileged user capable of accessing a critical payroll system.
Analysts can investigate results like this by asking questions in simple language. Northstar agents can then initiate fixes, such as installing endpoint protection, warning the user or limiting their access, and individuals can supervise these actions as appropriate.
Customers can also give external AI agents access to the graph via Model Context Protocol (MCP) and create their own security workflows. Northstar claims to connect to more than 70 enterprise security and IT products, including Okta, GitHub, Workday, Microsoft Defender and Entra, AWS and Google Cloud.
“Security teams are drowning in data but lacking context,” said Amer Deeba, CEO and co-founder of Northstar.
Deeba co-founded Normalyze, which Proofpoint later acquired, and was previously a senior executive at Qualys. Its co-founder, CTO Ed Rowe, held the same role at Farmers Business Network and led engineering as senior vice president at AppDynamics.
The startup will use this money to develop its platform, hire staff and expand its marketing.
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