Backslash Security announced a $19 million Series A funding round led by KOMPAS VC, with participation from Maniv, Artofin Venture Capital, and existing investors StageOne Ventures and First Rays Capital. The round, which follows Backslash’s $8 million seed funding, tracks the rapid grassroots shift from AI-assisted coding to autonomous AI agents that software development teams use to generate, modify, and deploy code, reshaping the entire software developer ecosystem and introducing a new attack surface that … More → The post Backslash Security raises $19 million to address AI coding security risks appeared first on Help Net Security .