Our Investment in Asymmetric Security

Modern security stacks are incredibly good at scanning broadly and incredibly bad at going deep.

They generate oceans of alerts, most of which are never fully understood. When something slips through, organizations fall back on their most expensive and scarce resource: human digital forensics experts.

That gap between surface-level detection and deep understanding is where the real risk lives.

In a world where intelligence is abundant, the limiting factor in cyberdefense is no longer whether you can collect signals—it’s whether you can reason deeply over all of them, and at scale. Deep reasoning is exactly what digital forensics has always done best. The problem is that it’s been too slow, too manual, and too expensive to deploy proactively at scale.

This is why we’re excited to have led the $4.2M pre-seed of Asymmetric Security.

The team at Asymmetric Security is building the first full-stack AI Digital Forensics & Incident Response company—one that uses AI not just to assist analysts, but to perform deep investigations that previously required elite human expertise. This isn’t automation around the edges, it’s automating the core judgment layer of cyber defense.

That conviction is already being validated by the market. Despite being early, Asymmetric is working with the world’s largest global insurers, and their AI platform has already helped cyber incident responders move faster and more effectively against hundreds of cyber attacks—clear evidence that organizations are hungry for deeper, more reliable security outcomes.

By starting as a DFIR services company, Asymmetric gets access to something most security startups never see: real incidents, real adversaries, and real stakes. Every investigation feeds a compounding loop—high-fidelity data and expert reasoning traces that make the system meaningfully better over time. This is how you build defensive systems that hold up against adaptive attackers, not just yesterday’s threats.

We’ve seen this movie before. CrowdStrike began as an incident response services provider before redefining endpoint security for the cloud era. In the AI era, the opportunity is even larger. Software can now eat services, turning what was once linear, expert-bound work into something that scales like a platform.

Just as importantly, incident response is where trust is forged. When a company shows up in your worst moment and actually helps you understand what happened, that relationship changes everything. In security, distribution follows trust—and trust is earned under pressure.

Asymmetric is going after the hardest part of cyberdefense: making deep understanding cheap, fast, and ubiquitous. If they’re right, digital forensics won’t be a last resort anymore. It will be the backbone of how attacks are detected in the first place.

That’s a fundamentally new security architecture—and one that only becomes possible in a world with abundant intelligence.

We’re thrilled to partner with Alexis, Zainab, Pippa, and the rest of the Asymmetric team.