Guardio, a Tel Aviv consumer cybersecurity startup, raised $40 million at a $1.1 billion valuation in a round joined by Wiz co-founder Assaf Rappaport, months after Wiz's $32 billion sale to Google, as AI-generated scams push demand for consumer-grade defense higher.
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Assaf Rappaport just sold Wiz to Google for 32 billion dollars. Instead of taking a break, he personally backed Guardio, valuing the consumer cybersecurity startup at 1.1 billion dollars. Guardio protects regular people, not enterprises, from scams, phishing, and identity theft across their browser, email, and texts. The timing isn't random. Generative AI made cloned voices and personalized phishing cheap enough to produce at scale, so threats that used to take real skill to fake now get mass produced. Guardio's already past a million paying customers and 150 million dollars in annual revenue, four straight years of triple digit growth. A billion dollar valuation on that ARR says investors think AI-scam defense is now its own category, not just a feature bolted onto antivirus.