
1. Technology overview
Adaptive Security, a product of TeamGuard AI Inc, was founded in New York in 2024 by Brian Long and Andrew Jones, who previously co-founded Attentive and TapCommerce. It targets AI-powered social engineering such as deepfake voice and video impersonation, AI-personalized spear phishing and callback scams aimed at employees.
The platform unifies four products. Security awareness training offers interactive modules on AI threats, deepfakes and voice phishing from a library of 1,000+ resources. Phishing simulations run email, voice, SMS and AI-personalized spearphishing, including CEO impersonation. Agentic email security re-analyzes inbound mail after native filtering and automatically remediates credential phishing, BEC and malicious payloads. AI governance monitors risky prompts and sensitive data sent to AI tools. Customers include Perplexity, PayPal, Figma, Ramp, Bose and Xerox.
2. Highlighted features & specifications
- Deepfake simulations: Runs voice and video impersonation scenarios of executives.
- Multi-channel phishing tests: Simulates email, voice, SMS and AI-personalized spearphishing.
- Awareness training: Provides interactive modules from a library of 1,000+ resources with automated campaigns.
- Agentic email security: Re-analyzes inbound mail and auto-remediates BEC, phishing and malware.
- Phish triage: Investigates and remediates user-reported phishing.
- AI governance: Flags credentials, secrets and personal data sent to AI tools.
3. Potential application
A Vietnamese bank can test whether treasury staff follow verification steps when receiving a deepfake call from a fake CEO. A technology company using Google Workspace can add agentic email security to catch phishing missed by native filters. An enterprise rolling out generative AI tools can monitor sensitive data shared in prompts.
4. Benefits
Employees practice against realistic deepfake calls and AI-written lures that mirror current attacks, not generic templates. Agentic email security catches attacks missed by native filters; a sample dashboard on the site shows 22 attacks missed by Google in 90 days. One platform covers training, simulations, inbound email remediation and AI usage monitoring, reducing the number of vendors. Compliance training for HIPAA, SOX and GDPR is included.
5. Market trends & opportunities
Generative AI has made deepfake voice calls and highly personalized phishing cheap to produce, and deepfake-enabled fraud against finance teams is growing worldwide. Buyers want awareness programs that reflect these new attacks and email defenses that work on top of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Asia-Pacific demand is rising, and Adaptive opened a Sydney office in 2026; Vietnamese firms facing CEO-impersonation scams have the same need.
6. Other information
Adaptive Security is headquartered at 120 Broadway, New York, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Sydney. It raised a 43 million USD Series A in April 2025 co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and the OpenAI Startup Fund, extended to 55 million USD, and an 81 million USD Series B in December 2025, for almost 150 million USD in total. It shows SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR and EU AI Act badges.
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