Insider Brief
- Lema AI emerged from stealth with $24 million in funding, including a Series A led by Team8 and earlier backing from F2 Venture Capital and Salesforce Ventures, to build an agentic AI platform for third-party vendor security risk management.
- The platform continuously analyzes vendor access, data movement, and permission changes to identify real attack paths and security risks, replacing manual compliance-based approaches with automated forensic analysis.
- Founded in 2023 by Eddie Dovzhik, Omer Yehudai, and Tomer Roizman, the company plans to use the funding to expand R&D and go-to-market efforts as enterprises seek better protection against vendor-related cyber risks.
PRESS RELEASE — Enterprise supply chains now depend on thousands of third-party vendors-and yet existing solutions focus solely on manual compliance validation, creating significant blind spots in how companies manage risk. Lema AI, an agentic AI security platform that empowers enterprises to build resilient, secure partnerships with their global vendors, emerged from stealth with $24 million in funding. The Series A was led by Team8, with F2 Venture Capital leading the Seed round and participation from Salesforce Ventures.
From SaaS applications to payment platforms, third-party vendors have become the operational core of the modern enterprise. Gartner reports that 60% of companies now rely on over 1,000 external vendors, creating a vast attack surface that static, point-in-time compliance forms cannot secure. While these vendors are external, they hold insider access to sensitive internal systems and data, meaning a single compromise can quickly become an enterprise-wide incident. A McKinsey report reveals that nearly one-third of recent cyber breaches originated from third parties — yet most organizations still defend this expanding perimeter with static spreadsheets and manual checklists
Powered by an AI agent trained to think like a vulnerability researcher, Lema AI reveals the risks that genuinely threaten the business. Rather than solely automating compliance workflows, the system replaces them with objective, continuous forensic analysis — tracking vendor access to critical assets, monitoring data movement, and evaluating permission changes over time. By mapping the real attack paths a third party could introduce, Lema identifies which vendors pose the greatest risk and why, and provides actionable mitigation steps to reduce that exposure. This approach allows enterprises to assess a new vendor in under five minutes.
“We founded Lema AI because third-party risk needs to be treated like a security problem, not a compliance checklist,” says Eddie Dovzhik, CEO and co-founder of Lema AI. “The industry is relying on manual assessments that miss the real-time business context and impact third parties have on the organization. Our platform was built by elite security researchers to think like an elite security researcher — monitoring the actual ‘blast radius’ of a vendor to uncover the risks that can actually take a business down.”
“Third-party risk management has consistently ranked as one of the top three innovation priorities for CISOs, according to Team8’s CISO Village Survey,” said Liran Grinberg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Team8. “Yet most enterprises still manage this risk through outdated, compliance-driven processes that leave critical blind spots — costing organizations millions each year when third-party failures occur. Lema is the first platform to solve this by directly linking third-party behavior to business-critical assets-giving security teams a dynamic, actionable view of risk and fundamentally transforming how they secure their extended ecosystem.”
Lema AI was founded in 2023 by Eddie Dovzhik (CEO), Omer Yehudai (CPO), and Tomer Roizman (CTO) to close the security gap left by compliance-first tools. The company has already secured major customers across multiple industries, including financial services and healthcare, as well as Fortune 500 companies. The new funding will accelerate R&D for its autonomous vendor risk analysis engine and expand its go-to-market organization to meet growing demand from highly regulated and digitally driven enterprises.
About Lema AI
Lema AI is an agentic AI platform designed to give enterprises real, continuous visibility into the security risks introduced by third-party vendors. Rather than relying on static questionnaires or compliance checklists, Lema AI monitors how vendors actually behave inside the enterprise environment, identifies which third parties pose the highest risk and why, and provides precise, actionable remediation guidance. Read more: https://www.lema.ai/
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