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February 10, 2026
Lema AI Exits Stealth With $24M to Hunt Vendor Threats
Published: February 10, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Updated: February 10, 2026 at 12:45 AM
100-word summary
Lema AI just dropped out of stealth with $24 million (Series A led by Team8, seed by F2 Venture Capital, plus Salesforce Ventures). The New York startup, founded in 2023, built an agentic AI platform that continuously monitors third-party vendors—think real-time security checks instead of boring compliance paperwork. It claims to assess vendor risk in under five minutes by mapping potential attack paths. Fortune 500s are already using it. With 60% of orgs juggling 1,000+ vendors and a third of breaches coming from third parties, this could reshape how enterprises handle supply chain security.
What happened
Lema AI just dropped out of stealth with $24 million (Series A led by Team8, seed by F2 Venture Capital, plus Salesforce Ventures). The New York startup, founded in 2023, built an agentic AI platform that continuously monitors third-party vendors—think real-time security checks instead of boring compliance paperwork. It claims to assess vendor risk in under five minutes by mapping potential attack paths. Fortune 500s are already using it.
Why it matters
With 60% of orgs juggling 1,000+ vendors and a third of breaches coming from third parties, this could reshape how enterprises handle supply chain security.