Abnormal AI Funding History

Abnormal AI provides AI-based email and behavioral security software targeting business email compromise, account takeover and insider risk.

Company Overview

  • Cybersecurity

Founded 2018 · San Francisco, California, US

Official Website

Abnormal AI Funding Timeline

  1. Announced Aug 6, 2024

    Series D

    US$250 million · $5.1B valuation

    Abnormal said the round would support further investment in its behavioral AI platform. At the time, it was expanding outside the US and pursuing federal authorization.

    Led by Wellington Management. Participation included Greylock, Menlo Ventures, Insight Partners.

    Source · cooley.com ↗
  2. Announced May 10, 2022

    Series C

    US$210 million · $4B valuation

    Abnormal said the financing would help it add support for more languages and bring new security products to market.

    Led by Insight Partners. Participation included Greylock, Menlo Ventures.

    Source · abnormal.ai ↗
  3. Announced Nov 18, 2020

    Series B

    US$50 million · $500M valuation

    Abnormal said the round brought cumulative funding to $75 million as it expanded its enterprise email security business.

    Led by Menlo Ventures. Participation included Greylock.

    Source · abnormal.ai ↗
  4. Announced Nov 19, 2019

    Series A

    US$24 million

    Abnormal Security launched its enterprise email protection platform alongside the financing.

    Led by Greylock.

    Source · abnormal.ai ↗

Abnormal AI Founding Team

Abnormal AI’s founders came from product and engineering work at Twitter. Their company applies behavioral analysis to email attacks such as impersonation and account takeover. The founding team included Sanjay Jeyakumar.

  • Evan Reiser — CEO. Previously led product teams at Twitter and TellApart.

Abnormal AI Products

  • Abnormal Email Security

    Identify suspicious messages and signs that a mailbox has been taken over.

Abnormal AI Company Development

The Mailbox Became One Signal Among Several

In 2024, Abnormal extended account-takeover protection beyond email to identity, collaboration and cloud applications. An investigation that started with an unusual email could now draw on behavior in other systems tied to the same user.

Abnormal AI Competitive Landscape

Account Behavior and Data Exposure

Abnormal AI looks for anomalous behavior in email and accounts, including messages associated with impersonation and account takeover. Cyera starts with sensitive data and the identities that can access it, so its remit is closer to exposure management than email defense.