Scanner
Credible, Sequoia-backed Series A infrastructure play addressing a real bottleneck (data access for security AI agents) with an experienced angel bench including Vanta's founder and Amazon's first CISO.
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Raised a $22M Series A (announced 2026-03-10/12) led by Sequoia Capital with CRV and Mantis VC participating, roughly four years after 2022 founding.
Reports AI agents as some of its most active platform users over recent months, indicating real usage, though customer scale was not disclosed.
Series A closed 2026-03-10/12 with a strong angel bench including Vanta's CEO, MongoDB's board chairman, and OpenAI infrastructure leadership.
Providing an MCP-based data layer purpose-built for AI-agent-driven security operations is a differentiated infrastructure play relative to traditional SIEM/data-lake products.
Real reported usage by AI agents for threat hunting and investigation is a positive signal, though no independent detection-efficacy benchmark was located.
Fast, scalable data access for AI-driven security operations is increasingly foundational as more SOC workflows incorporate AI agents.
Why CISOs Should Care
Scanner provides a cloud-native security data lake with an MCP server that connects AI agents to an organization's log data for fast threat hunting, detection engineering, and investigation -- giving SecOps teams the underlying data infrastructure AI agents need to be useful.
What Makes It Different
Positions itself as data infrastructure for AI agents in security operations specifically, rather than a SIEM or detection product itself, letting AI agents query and correlate large volumes of log data directly via a standard protocol (MCP).
The Matrix Verdict
45/100 — EMERGING / UNRANKED
Credible, Sequoia-backed Series A infrastructure play addressing a real bottleneck (data access for security AI agents) with an experienced angel bench including Vanta's founder and Amazon's first CISO.
Editorial Note: Claims vs. Verified Findings
Funding and platform description verified via SecurityWeek and company blog. Claims about AI agents becoming 'some of the most active users' of the platform are company-reported.
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