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Teleskope, a company building the industry's first agentic data security platform, has announced a $25 million Series A funding round. The investment, led by M13 with participation from existing investors, will be used to accelerate growth and product innovation, helping enterprises tackle data security challenges with human-level intelligence at scale.
Teleskope secures $25 million in a Series A funding round led by M13.
The company is building the industry's first agentic data security platform.
The platform automates data discovery, classification, and risk remediation.
It addresses critical challenges like budget cuts and a global cybersecurity skills shortage.
The funding will fuel product development and go-to-market expansion.
Karl Alomar from M13 will join Teleskope's board of directors.
The funding addresses a critical market need, as 74% of organizations cite data security as the biggest barrier to AI adoption. With security teams facing budget constraints and a global talent shortage, traditional tools that generate thousands of low-value alerts are no longer sufficient. Teleskope's platform is designed to operate like a human security team, automatically discovering and classifying sensitive data across cloud and SaaS environments. It applies company-specific policies, understands context, and takes autonomous, real-time action to remediate risks, effectively providing a fully embedded, 24/7 data security team.
At the core of Teleskope's solution is a proprietary multi-stage classification pipeline. Lightweight machine learning models route data to specialized AI engines that validate findings with deep contextual analysis. The platform continuously detects misconfigurations, maps them to compliance frameworks like NIST and GDPR, and enforces policies at the infrastructure level. This proactive approach mitigates risk before it escalates into a significant problem, giving organizations the confidence to innovate and adopt AI securely.
The company's vision, born from the founder's firsthand experience as a security engineer, has resonated with both investors and customers. “When I was a security engineer at Airbnb, I faced the challenge of cataloging and classifying hundreds of petabytes of data... the tools we used simply couldn’t keep up,” said Elizabeth Nammour, CEO and founder of Teleskope. “That experience showed me what was possible if we built a platform that thinks and acts like a human security team.” This latest investment validates Teleskope's unique position to become the category leader in the emerging field of agentic data security.
Teleskope is redefining data security for the AI era with the industry’s first agentic platform that combines precise visibility with automated remediation. Teleskope autonomously scans, catalogs, and classifies data in motion and at rest while automating remediations that understand and adapt to each organization’s unique risk profile, enabling security teams to manage data sprawl proactively while securely enabling AI adoption. Backed by M13, Primary Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau, and others, Teleskope is trusted by organizations including Ramp, Legal Zoom, Alloy, GoFundMe, and The Atlantic.
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