AI security startup Outtake raises $40M from Iconiq, Satya Nadella, Bill Ackman and other big names

Outtake, which makes an agentic cybersecurity level to assistance enterprises detect, analyse and instrumentality down individuality fraud, has raised a $40 cardinal Series B circular of funding.

While that mightiness not dependable similar a batch fixed the immense sums immoderate AI companies are raising, the names progressive successful this financing reads similar a tech manufacture who’s who.

The circular was led by ICONIQ’s Murali Joshi, who led the firm’s investments successful companies similar Anthropic, Datadog, Drata, 1Password, among others.

Angels who invested see Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora; Pershing Square Holdings CEO Bill Ackman; Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar; Anduril co-founder Trae Stephens; Former OpenAI VP Bob McGrew; Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, and Former AT&T CEO John Donovan. Whew!

The crushed for the excitement? Outtake, founded successful 2023 by a erstwhile Palantir engineer, Alex Dhillon, has recovered a mode to automate what has mostly been the manual occupation of spotting and taking down integer individuality posers: impersonation accounts, malicious domains posing arsenic the company’s, rogue apps, fraudulent ads, and more. This occupation has grown adjacent much hard due to the fact that AI has enabled attackers to beryllium much convincing and faster successful their efforts.

“We kept proceeding whispers successful our web astir an AI institution that was yet solving integer misrepresentation astatine scale. Honestly, we were skeptical,” Joshi told TechCrunch. “Historically, detection and takedown was (and to immoderate grade adjacent today) a manual, human-intensive process that couldn’t support up with the velocity of the internet.”

But erstwhile Iconiq looked astatine the merchandise and did its owed diligence with customers, the capitalist became a believer, helium said. “They’ve turned a ‘human problem’ into a ‘software problem.’ Seeing AI instrumentality down integer frauds successful real-time is simply a game-changer for marque safety,” helium said.

Outtake names among its customers OpenAI, Pershing Square, AppLovin, and national agencies. OpenAI even profiled the company successful July, 2025 arsenic an illustration of an agentic startup built connected its reasoning models.

The institution says it has seen large maturation each around, with yearly recurring gross expanding sixfold year-over-year and its lawsuit basal increasing much than tenfold. Last twelvemonth alone, Outtake says, its systems scanned 20 cardinal imaginable cyberattacks.