AI security startup Outtake raises $40M from Iconiq, Satya Nadella, Invoice Ackman, and different massive names

Outtake, which makes an agentic cybersecurity platform to assist enterprises detect, examine, and take down identification fraud, has raised a $40 million Sequence B spherical of funding.

Whereas that may not sound like lots given the massive sums some AI firms are elevating, the names concerned on this financing reads like a tech trade who’s who.

The spherical was led by Iconiq’s Murali Joshi, who led the agency’s investments in firms like Anthropic, Datadog, Drata, 1Password, amongst others.

Angels who invested embody Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora; Pershing Sq. Holdings CEO Invoice Ackman; Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar; Anduril co-founder Trae Stephens; Former OpenAI VP Bob McGrew; Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, and Former AT&T CEO John Donovan. Whew!

The rationale for the joy? Outtake, based in 2023 by a former Palantir engineer, Alex Dhillon, has discovered a method to automate what has largely been the guide downside of recognizing and taking down digital identification posers: impersonation accounts, malicious domains posing as the corporate’s, rogue apps, fraudulent advertisements, and extra. This downside has grown much more tough as a result of AI has enabled attackers to be extra convincing and quicker of their efforts.

“We saved listening to whispers in our community about an AI firm that was lastly fixing digital misrepresentation at scale. Truthfully, we had been skeptical,” Joshi informed information.killnetswitch. “Traditionally, detection and takedown was (and to some extent even at this time) a guide, human-intensive course of that couldn’t sustain with the pace of the web.”

However as soon as Iconiq appeared on the product and did its due diligence with prospects, the investor turned a believer, he mentioned. “They’ve turned a ‘human downside’ right into a ‘software program downside.’ Seeing AI take down digital frauds in actual time is a game-changer for model security,” he mentioned.

Outtake names amongst its prospects OpenAI, Pershing Sq., AppLovin, and federal businesses. OpenAI even profiled the corporate in July 2025 for example of an agentic startup constructed on its reasoning fashions.

The corporate says it has seen main progress throughout, with annual recurring income rising sixfold year-over-year and its buyer base rising greater than tenfold. Final 12 months alone, Outtake says, its programs scanned 20 million potential cyberattacks.