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Neo

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See every app and control every action in real time. Neo prevents agentic threats across devices, browsers, identities, and applications. observed

fresh · evidence 9d ago 14 sources no confidence data
56.5/100
Venture signal
scored above 76% of early peers
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Yes

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

Funding
$100M
2026-07-20
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings
Commercial
sales-led
homepage

Ecosystem

Derived connections from primary evidence — Form D officer rosters and shared lead investors. A shared name is a lead, not proof of identity.

investor andreessen horowitz → Inferact investor andreessen horowitz → Replit investor andreessen horowitz → ElevenLabs investor andreessen horowitz → Etched investor andreessen horowitz → TypeSafe AI investor bessemer venture partners → Ampersand

New infrastructure surfaces

Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.

admin.neo.security enterprise surface 10-08 app.neo.security product surface 10-08

Traction

Current round

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_magnitude (18% of the score).

↓ Scored on 2 of 4 components — adoption, developer had no computable metric.

11 independent sources 4 promoted signals latest signal 2026-08-03 inspect the evidence →

Intelligence signals registry · promoted

Cross-source signals that survived the scoring gauntlet or were hand-curated. ✓ verified = bound to an exact transcript passage with a voiceprint-confirmed speaker.

Evaluation

How it's evaluated Four independent layers ▾

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Platform score derived
57/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
11/100
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VIX signals 3 hard signals across 2 sources ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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What people are saying 13 signals from 1 voice ▾
Technology No signals collected yet ▾
No technology data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Team & hiring No signals collected yet ▾
No team & hiring data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Market & funding stage 1 of 3 signals present ▾
Funding stage
not provided
Lifecycle stage
not provided
Latest round stage
series_a observed stale
Timeline 1 events ▾
  1. 2026-07-20 series_a · $100M · Led by Andreessen Horowitz

Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 56.5/100 for neo-security, composed from 2 of 4 components (emerging formula), discounted ×0.85 for 50% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.2 0.7631 0.1526
funding_magnitude 0.3 0.6 0.18

Evidence this score rests on

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
$100M series a
announced 2026-07-20 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2026-07-20
Money moved on or after
2026-07-20
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2026-07-20 by its own source.

Counterparty exposure shared-investor contagion

Companies coupled to this one by a shared investor — if a common backer pulls back or a fund hits trouble, the shock propagates across the set. More shared investors = tighter coupling.

Ampersand 1 shared bessemer-ventur… ElevenLabs 1 shared andreessen-horo… Etched 1 shared andreessen-horo… Inferact 1 shared andreessen-horo… Preference Model 1 shared andreessen-horo… Probably 1 shared andreessen-horo… Replit 1 shared andreessen-horo… TypeSafe AI 1 shared andreessen-horo…
Raw observations 117 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name Neo observed notion 2026-07-22 normalized 0.60
common_name NEO observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 1974 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.max_points 0 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.mentions 0 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43982777", "title": "Databricks acquires Neon", "points": 389, "created_at": "2025-05-14", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status": "unverified"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43982777", "title": "Databricks acquires Neon", "points": 389, "created_at": "2025-05-14", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status": "unverified"} observed artifact ↗ 2025-05-14 superseded 0.20
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community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247645", "title": "MacBook Neo", "points": 1974, "created_at": "2026-03-04"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-03-04 superseded 0.20
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description AI-security company (out of stealth 2026-07 with ~$100M seed + Series A from a16z, Bessemer, Craft Ventures, Merlin Ventures; founded by former SentinelOne executives). Governs AI-enabled enterprise s observed notion 2026-07-22 normalized 0.60
description Agentic software control: discovers AI-capable applications, tracks their expanding capabilities, controls data access and governs autonomous software behaviour. Founded by former SentinelOne executiv observed curated 2026-10-08 normalized 0.85
description See every app and control every action in real time. Neo prevents agentic threats across devices, browsers, identities, and applications. observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.70
domain neo.security observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.95
funding.round.amount_usd 100000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-20 normalized 0.90
funding.round.announced_on 2026-07-20 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-20 normalized 0.90
funding.round.lead_investors ["Andreessen Horowitz", "Bessemer Venture Partners"] observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-20 normalized 0.90
funding.round.source_url https://neo.security/news observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-20 normalized 0.90
funding.round.stage series_a observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-20 normalized 0.90
gate.accumulation {"outcome": "existing_source", "obs_count": 11, "source_id": null, "trigger_path": "accumulation_gate", "collector_count": 3, "artifact_collector": null} observed gate 2026-10-08 normalized 0.60
index.ai_tie AI_ADJACENT observed classify 2026-07-25 derived 0.60
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metric.venture.funding_recency_days 83.6847 derived calc 2026-10-11 superseded 0.90
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score.venture_signal 57 derived calc 2026-10-09 superseded 0.60
score.venture_signal 56.9 derived calc 2026-10-10 superseded 0.60
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score.venture_signal 56.6 derived calc 2026-10-14 superseded 0.60
score.venture_signal 56.5 derived calc 2026-10-14 derived 0.60
sector emerging derived calc 2026-08-08 normalized 0.50
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