Cydelphi Co-Founder and CEO Ron Newman [Composite image; source: Cydelphi/DI Studio]

Cydelphi, an AI-native digital forensics & incident response (DFIR) platform company that bolsters cyber resilience, emerged from stealth today with $3 million in seed funding. The round was led by Boston-based Glasswing Ventures, with participation from Blu Ventures, Hyde Park Angels, and Merlin Group.

In addition to the funding, the company debuted its patent-pending DFIR platform, “custom-built to enable organizations to recover from catastrophic breaches in days rather than months.” The funding will speed product development, expand go-to-market partnerships with leading MSSPs and DFIR providers, and fuel adoption across high-stakes industries where downtime costs millions per day.

Ron Newman, co-founder and CEO of Cydelphi, said that for two decades, “the DFIR process has been an intense manual effort, requiring elite teams weeks or even months to forensically investigate, eradicate, and recover from catastrophic breaches.”

“Our platform empowers service providers and enterprises to automate the DFIR process while focusing on rapid restoration of foundational systems,” he added in a statement, “getting organizations operational at machine speed.”

According to recent industry reports, ransomware attacks surged to 4,701 incidents in 2025, a 46% year-over-year increase, with AI-powered attacks cutting median dwell time a cyber thief lurks on a site before striking from nine days to just five. Average ransomware payments have climbed to just over $1 million. Most alarming, 76% of organizations report they cannot match the speed of AI-powered attacks. Cydelphi said that threat actors are leveraging AI to continuously evolve their attacks at faster speeds, making it increasingly difficult for legacy security controls to keep pace.

Empowering cyber resilience and rapid system restoration

Cydelphi says it was built to solve this challenge. Its AI-native DFIR platform features patent-pending agentic AI that automatically generates and executes forensic playbooks, eliminating manual processes that typically extend recovery from weeks to days. Cydelphi’s AI-native platform combines continuous automated preparation, AI-enabled automated playbooks, and air-gapped resilience infrastructure to empower cyber resilience and rapid restoration of foundational systems. That resilience and quick restoration give enterprises “the confidence to return to operations quickly after a breach,” the company said.

According to a Forrester Research blog by Principal Analyst Jess Burn, leading security providers are “investing in innovation and initiatives focused on speeding all stages of the IR lifecycle and automating more time-consuming processes like evidence collection,” which is the gap Cydelphi is engineered to fill.

Early adopters said they’re already seeing results.

“Cydelphi gives our DFIR team faster triage, unified containment playbooks, and automation at scale,” said Darrell Switzer, president of Olympus Cyber. “Our client retainers now include Cydelphi’s AI-native DFIR platform, giving us a competitive advantage and increasing my team’s efficiencies.”

Veteran cybersecurity leadership and ‘democratizing’ breach recovery

Cydelphi was founded by CEO Ron Newman, CTO Lee Patenaude, and Doron Kolton, general manager and VP of R&D, who together have decades of hands-on experience in cybersecurity startups. The company said that its Israel-based R&D team brings over 20 years of collaborative experience in digital forensics and incident response.

“The DFIR market is at an inflection point. Mandiant’s $5.4 billion exit to Google proved the value of specialized incident response, but that model relied on scarce human expertise that couldn’t scale,” Rick Grinnell, founder and managing partner at Glasswing Ventures, said in a statement.

“Cydelphi is democratizing enterprise-grade DFIR capabilities through AI, making rapid catastrophic breach recovery accessible to organizations that could never afford elite response teams,” he added. “We’re thrilled to back this exceptional founding team.”

Cydelphi said it’s partnering with leading MSSPs, MSPs, and DFIR providers to provide rapid recovery capabilities to organizations spanning healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services—sectors “where a single day of downtime can cost millions.”

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