RapidFort, a software supply chain security innovator from San Francisco, has announced $42 million in Series A funding from Blue Cloud Ventures and Forgepoint Capital, with additional support from Felicis Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Boulder Ventures, Brave Capital, Evolution Ventures, Florida Funders, Gaingels, and Mana Ventures, in a significant milestone as companies struggle with the implications of AI-driven software development and the increasing speed of exploitation cycles that make traditional vulnerability management ineffective. The startup’s solution is intended to protect software across its entire lifecycle by constantly analyzing, hardening, and remediating vulnerabilities so that they “don’t survive long enough to become incidents,” through the use of a broad catalog of hardened, near-zero-CVE container images that provide a dramatic risk reduction without the need for code modifications, and by integrating automated remediation into CI/CD pipelines to move security from detection to elimination. “Software teams are shipping faster than ever and attackers are moving even faster. RapidFort is building what the market urgently needs: continuous vulnerability remediation that keeps pace with modern development. Their end-to-end platform doesn’t just surface risk it eliminates it. We’re excited to partner with RapidFort as they define the next era of software supply chain security,” said Rami Rahal, Managing Partner at Blue Cloud Ventures, underscoring investor confidence in the company’s mission as vulnerability exploitation now accounts for a significant share of breaches.
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The investment will help fuel the next wave of growth for RapidFort by accelerating go-to-market efforts, driving product innovation, and increasing adoption in the enterprise space, especially in regulated markets where ongoing risk mitigation and readiness for frameworks such as FedRAMP, CMMC, ATO, CRA, and NIS2 is becoming more and more important. “The problem isn’t that organizations don’t know they have vulnerabilities, it’s that they can’t fix them fast enough,” said Mehran Farimani, Founder and CEO of RapidFort, stressing the urgency of machine-speed remediation in an AI-driven threat landscape. Additionally, Ernie Bio, Managing Director at Forgepoint Capital, noted that “in an AI-accelerated threat landscape, detection alone is table stakes. What matters is elimination. RapidFort is the only platform that combines comprehensive profiling, automated rebuilding, intelligent patching, and continuous validation at enterprise scale,” highlighting the strategic value and market differentiation of RapidFort’s end-to-end software defense approach.