Marks the public launch of Clover Security, a pioneering startup aiming to redefine product security for modern, AI-driven software development. With a $36 million funding round backing the move, Clover Security is poised to shift how organizations approach application security from reactive vulnerability scanning to design-led security from the very start.
As AI dramatically accelerates the pace and complexity of software creation enabling everything from code completion to autonomous agent-based feature generation architectural and design complexity have surged, and traditional security tooling is struggling to keep up. According to Clover, conventional methods such as SAST, SCA, DAST, runtime scanners, and other post-implementation tools, while essential, are inherently reactive detecting issues only after code is written.
Clover Security aims to flip that paradigm. The company introduces a novel, design-led security model: embedding AI agents directly into the early stages of product development, where design decisions are made. These agents “live in the earliest conversations, the messy drafts, the evolving diagrams,” and apply security guidance reasoning about architecture, data flows, dependencies, and system behavior before any code is committed.
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By integrating with development and collaboration tools such as Confluence, Jira, GitHub, Cursor, and Slack, Clover’s agents work alongside existing workflows reducing burden on security teams and giving developers real-time design feedback.
According to Clover, the shift to design-led security is not just preferable it has become critical. As AI further abstracts developers from low-level syntax and code details, focusing their attention on high-level design and specification, reactive scanners alone are no longer sufficient. Clover positions its offering as a way to “secure by nature” making security a foundational, natural part of the development lifecycle.
Clover Security reports that its approach is already powering teams across fintech, banking, enterprise software, and consumer applications. With the new funding, the company plans to scale its product and go-to-market teams to meet growing demand for design-driven security.
Source: Clover Security