Guardare

Guardare, led by co-founder and CEO Lars Letonoff and based in Clearwater, Florida, builds AI software that pulls findings from an organization’s existing security stack — the company says it connects with more than 200 technology products — and ranks vulnerabilities by their potential business impact rather than raw severity scores alone, aiming to tell security teams which issues to fix first. The approach is similar in spirit to other exposure-management and vulnerability-prioritization vendors, but is aimed at mid-market organizations that already own multiple point tools and need a correlation layer rather than another scanner.

According to an October 2026 SEC filing covered by a regional business journal, Guardare’s latest raise of $5.6 million brings its total disclosed funding to about $10.7 million in equity sold to ten investors. Utah-based Album led both this round and an earlier one in June 2025, with Ten Eleven Ventures — a cybersecurity-focused fund — participating in both, alongside Tampa Bay Ventures, DeepWork Capital and the Florida Opportunity Fund. The regional, relatively small-scale nature of its funding and investor base reflects a company still building traction outside the major coastal venture hubs that dominate much of this category.