CYBERSECURITY FUNDING Outtake Raises $40 Million to Bolster Digital Trust Against AI-Driven Threats The Series B funding round brings the cybersecurity startup’s total raised to $60 million. By Eduard Kovacs | February 9, 2026 (8:56 AM ET) Flipboard Reddit Whatsapp Email Cybersecurity startup Outtake has announced raising $40 million to develop a unified platform for maintaining digital trust amid AI advancements. As reports of AI-driven phishing and impersonation attacks continue to surge in early 2026, Outtake’s recent funding highlights the urgent need for advanced defenses against these evolving threats. Outtake’s Series B round was led by ICONIQ, with participation from CRV, S32, and a roster of prominent angel investors including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, Pershing Square CEO Bill 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. This investment brings Outtake’s total funding to $60 million, and the proceeds will be allocated to enhancing the company’s platform and expanding engineering, product, and go-to-market teams. Outtake has developed a platform that leverages agentic AI to safeguard against modern attack surfaces, incorporating capabilities for advanced search, threat categorization, and automated risk handling. The system leverages open source intelligence collection, scanning public environments to spot references to an organization’s critical assets in formats like text, images, videos, and audio. ADVERTISEMENT. SCROLL TO CONTINUE READING. It also features digital risk protection mechanisms that identify and neutralize impersonation efforts spanning domains, social platforms, apps, and ads, complemented by integrations with security operations tools, as well as a browser extension for cryptographic email signing. “Security teams are being asked to defend trust everywhere their organization shows up online, while attackers move faster and operate across channels,” said Alex Dhillon, founder and CEO of Outtake. “We built Outtake because point solutions can’t keep up with AI-driven deception. Enterprises are choosing a unified platform for digital trust, and this funding allows us to scale alongside customers as that shift accelerates,” Dhillon, a former Palantir engineer, added. Related: Airrived Emerges From Stealth With $6.1 Million in Funding Related: Nullify Secures $12.5 Million in Seed Funding for Cybersecurity AI Workforce Related: Blockchain Intelligence Firm TRM Labs Raises $70 Million at $1 Billion Valuation WRITTEN BY Eduard Kovacs Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is the managing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher before starting a career in journalism in 2011. Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in computer techniques applied in electrical engineering. 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