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Empirical Security

Exposure management that predicts which vulnerabilities will be exploited, using a global model plus one trained on each customer's environment.

Proof of life. Raised a $25M Series A led by Brightmind Partners, July 2026

About Empirical Security

Empirical Security builds models that forecast which CVEs, misconfigurations, and cloud issues attackers are likely to exploit, so remediation work goes to the few that matter.

Its Foundation model tracks more than 18,000 vulnerabilities with observed exploitation activity, and Radiant trains a separate model on one organization's own assets, telemetry, and cloud setup.

The Chicago team includes CEO Ed Bellis and CTO Michael Roytman, who previously built Kenna Security, and chief data scientist Jay Jacobs, who leads data science for the EPSS scoring system.

Investors

Brightmind PartnersCostanoa VenturesHyde Park Angels
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