CNBC - Kevin Mandia sold his cybersecurity company to Google in 2022. He has a fresh $190 million for a new venture

On Tuesday, Mandia’s new startup, Armadin, said it raised nearly $190 million, in a funding round led by Accel. Google Ventures is participating, along with firms including Kleiner Perkins, Menlo Ventures and Ballistic Ventures, which Mandia co-founded. Mandia told CNBC in an interview that the emergence of artificial intelligence, particularly agentic AI, is having a dramatic impact on cybersecurity. Armadin creates and manages autonomous AI agents that consistently scan for threats. “I wasn’t going to sit on the sidelines watching another shift change in cybersecurity without leveraging 30 years in the industry to do something,” Mandia said.