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Security startup Debt First has closed a $40 million Series A funding round.

The company uses AI to identify and harden software vulnerabilities.

The round led by Excel.

Joining us to discuss Excel partner, Sarah Ellison.

Debt First,

This was a big theme actually at AWS reInvent, the idea that particularly sort of swarm-based agents can go on the offense, not just defense.

So a sensible place to start with why you made the investment in general security intelligence is what can it do that existing AppSec and other sort of static analysis tools just can't?

I was looking at the round.

It's a sizable Series A. In the last couple of years, the market has been somewhat distorted depending on the company's type.