AI agents are changing where cybersecurity seed funding lands Founders pitching a cybersecurity seed round this summer are joining a line that keeps getting longer. Product Hunt launches hit their highest level since late 2023 last quarter, and the Census Bureau’s count of high-propensity business applications kept climbing. Seed deal volume in cyber ticked down. Those figures come from the Q2 2026 Insights report published by DataTribe, an early-stage cybersecurity investor. The money went up the stack. Nine-figure rounds took 81% of every venture dollar invested in the second quarter, more than double the share they held at the start of 2018. Cyber Series A volume fell from Q1 and stayed inside the band it has occupied for three years. “The gap between how much capital is being deployed and how many companies are receiving it is now the widest we’ve seen in eight years of tracking this market,” said Leo Scott, managing director at DataTribe. Valuations climbed with the concentration. A Series A now prices above where a Series B priced in 2018. Series B has passed 2018’s Series E. Seed crossed the 2018 Series A line for the first time this quarter. Agent security took the seed money that was left AI security was the largest category of cyber seed investment last quarter, close to a quarter of all deals. Every company in it except one was built around securing agentic systems. Agentic products also turned up in cloud security, application security, AI pentesting, and third-party risk management. Data security came back into focus, with founders pitching one of two futures: an AI-driven one, or one where quantum computing has broken existing cryptography. Two OpenAI models walked out of the sandbox Over the weekend of May 31, someone took an Obama-era White House Instagram account by asking Meta’s