New Funds will Fuel Innovation to Bring Human-level Intelligence to Data Security: Automatically Detecting, Contextualizing, and Remediating Risk at Scale Across Enterprises

Teleskope, the company redefining data security for the AI era, today announced $25 million in Series A funding led by M13, with repeat participation from Primary Venture Partners and Lerer Hippeau. The company will use the funds to accelerate growth, expand product capabilities, and scale its go-to-market efforts. This latest investment brings Teleskope’s total funding to $32.2 million.

Enterprises are drowning in petabytes of fragmented data, and as AI adoption accelerates, 74% of organizations cite data security as their most significant barrier. Yet with nearly half of security teams facing budget cuts and a global shortage of five million professionals, legacy approaches fall short. Most traditional data security tools are generic, scanning for standard PII and generating tens of thousands of low-value alerts that offer little insight or no clear path to remediation. Real security teams work differently: they understand context, prioritize true risk, and act with both technical insight and business awareness.

Teleskope delivers the industry’s first agentic data security platform, designed to operate like a human security team at scale. The platform automatically discovers, classifies, and protects sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. It applies company-specific policies, understands context, and takes autonomous, real-time action to remediate risk. In effect, enterprises gain a fully embedded data security team operating 24/7.

“When I was a security engineer at Airbnb, I faced the challenge of cataloging and classifying hundreds of petabytes of data across dozens of platforms, and the tools we used simply couldn’t keep up,” said Elizabeth Nammour, CEO and founder of Teleskope. “That experience showed me what was possible if we built a platform that thinks and acts like a human security team. With this new funding, we’re taking Teleskope to the next level: giving enterprises a fully agentic platform that can automatically detect, contextualize, and remediate risk, so they can confidently adopt AI and protect their data at scale.”

At the heart of Teleskope’s platform is a proprietary multi-stage classification pipeline. Lightweight machine learning models route data to specialized AI engines that validate findings with contextual analysis. The platform continuously detects misconfigurations, maps them to regulatory frameworks like NIST, GDPR, and CIS, and enforces compliance at the infrastructure level, proactively mitigating risk before it becomes a problem.

“Teleskope has completely changed how we approach data security,” said Lock Langdon, Chief Information Security Officer at Aprio, LLP. “We’re using it not just for comprehensive data security posture management, but also to manage data retention. For the first time, we have a platform that not only finds sensitive data across our systems but also understands context and takes action automatically. It feels like having a full data management team embedded in our environment, giving us confidence to innovate while keeping our data protected.”

In addition to the funding, Teleskope announced the appointment of Karl Alomar, Managing Partner at M13, to its board of directors to help guide the company’s next phase of growth. Karl brings deep operational and investment experience to Teleskope, having scaled DigitalOcean from a startup to a successful NYSE-listed public company and co-founded multiple technology companies.

“AI is transforming the data and infrastructure environment that businesses live within, introducing new risks and increasingly sophisticated attacks,” said Alomar. “Teleskope fills a key component of controls needed to help secure sensitive data and does so with a far better user experience and remediation capabilities than anything else in the market. We could not be more excited about Lizzy, who combines deep technical expertise with strong business sensibility and has already built an impressive team and product. We believe Teleskope is uniquely positioned to become the category leader in agentic data security.”

Teleskope is actively hiring across data science, engineering, and go-to-market teams. To join the mission of redefining data security for the AI era, visit www.teleskope.ai/careers.

About Teleskope

Teleskope is redefining data security for the AI era with the industry’s first agentic platform that combines precise visibility with automated remediation. Teleskope autonomously scans, catalogs, and classifies data in motion and at rest while automating remediations that understand and adapt to each organization’s unique risk profile, enabling security teams to manage data sprawl proactively while securely enabling AI adoption. Backed by M13, Primary Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau, and others, Teleskope is trusted by organizations including Ramp, Legal Zoom, Alloy, GoFundMe, and The Atlantic. Get started at www.teleskope.ai.

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