HPA Backs AI-Native DFIR Platform Revolutionizing Catastrophic Breach Recovery
HPA is pleased to announce its participation in the $3 million seed funding round for Cydelphi, the pioneering AI-native Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) platform company. The round was led by Glasswing Ventures, with additional participation from Blu Ventures and Merlin Ventures.
Cydelphi is addressing a critical and rapidly expanding pain point in enterprise security: the inability of current processes to keep pace with AI-powered attacks. As ransomware attacks surge and median dwell times shrink, legacy DFIR processes, which are heavily manual and can take months to complete, are no longer viable. Cydelphi’s patent-pending, AI-native platform automates elite-level DFIR, enabling catastrophic breach recovery from months to days.
“For two decades, DFIR has been a highly manual, expertise-constrained process that can keep organizations offline for weeks or longer,” said Ron Newman, Cydelphi Co-Founder and CEO. “Cydelphi’s AI-native platform automates forensic playbooks and recovery workflows so service providers and enterprises can move at machine speed, restoring critical systems without paying ransoms or sacrificing thorough investigations.”
HPA has a strong reputation for backing transformative technologies led by exceptional teams targeting massive, underserved markets. Cydelphi fits this criteria perfectly:
- Massive Market Disruption: The need for rapid, scalable breach recovery is accelerating across all high-stakes sectors, including financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare, where downtime costs millions per day. Cydelphi is poised to disrupt the multi-billion dollar incident response market by democratizing enterprise-grade recovery capabilities.
- AI-Native Advantage: The platform’s patent-pending agentic AI automatically generates and executes forensic playbooks, moving beyond simple automation to true machine-speed resilience—a fundamental shift required to combat modern AI-powered threats.
- Exceptional Team: Cydelphi is led by battle-tested cybersecurity veterans, including CEO Ron Newman, CTO Lee Patenaude, and General Manager/VP of R&D Doron Kolton. Their combined decades of hands-on experience in DFIR and building successful cybersecurity startups provides a strong foundation for execution.
- Early Validation: The platform has already secured critical market validation, with early adopters like Olympus Cyber integrating the Cydelphi platform into their client retainers as a competitive weapon and efficiency driver.
“Cydelphi has the right team with the right product for a critical moment in cybersecurity,” said Rob Eckardt, HPA Deal Lead & Cydelphi Board member. “My career has focused on taking complex enterprise technologies to market through strategic channel partners, and Cydelphi’s AI-native DFIR platform is exactly the kind of solution MSSPs and enterprises are demanding as ransomware risk and downtime costs continue to climb.”
With this new funding, Cydelphi will accelerate product development, deepen integrations and partnerships with leading security service providers, and drive adoption across high-stakes industries where cyberattacks increasingly threaten core operations.
On behalf of HPA, we congratulate the Cydelphi team on this important milestone and are thrilled to support the company’s continued growth in defining AI-native cyber resilience.
Read more about it here: Press Release