Northstar Security Seed Funding Hits $7 Million for Security Context Graph Platform

Northstar Security emerged from stealth on October 28, 2026, announcing a $7 million seed round led by Wing Venture Capital. The San Francisco-based company plans to use the capital to expand its Security Context Graph platform, which maps relationships across security and IT data to surface toxic risk combinations.

Security Context Graph Capabilities and Integrations

The platform ingests data from more than 70 enterprise tools, including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra, Okta, GitHub, Slack, Workday, and Zendesk. It constructs a real-time graph that links assets, identities, vulnerabilities, applications, configurations, and business systems. This structure allows teams to query risks in natural language and prioritize issues based on business impact rather than isolated findings.

Agentic features let AI agents trigger remediation workflows such as deploying endpoint protection or adjusting access controls, subject to human approval. The graph can also be exposed through the Model Context Protocol so external agents, including Claude, can build custom security workflows. CEO Amer Deeba stated that security teams currently manage large volumes of data without sufficient context, and the platform shifts operations from detection to continuous remediation.

Co-founder and CTO Ed Rowe previously held engineering leadership roles at Farmers Business Network and AppDynamics. The pair worked together at Adobe in the late 1990s. The company currently offers product demos and has made the platform available to early customers, though no revenue figures or customer counts have been disclosed.

Investor Backing and Market Positioning

Wing Venture Capital led the round, with participation from MVP, Outliers, and individuals including former Google CISO Gerhard Eschelbeck, Renaud Deraison, and Justin Somaini. Wing partner Jake Flomenberg noted that the security industry has invested heavily in detection but lacks mechanisms to act on findings at scale. Investor Eschelbeck added that future security operations will be judged by the speed of proactive risk resolution.

The funding will support product development, hiring, and commercial expansion. Northstar positions its graph approach as a foundation for agentic AI security, where agents receive contextual data needed to execute fixes rather than merely flag issues. No specific product milestones or additional funding rounds have been announced at this stage.

Background on Founders and Technology Approach

Amer Deeba previously co-founded Normalyze, which Proofpoint acquired, and held senior positions at Qualys. The founders built Northstar to address the gap between raw security telemetry and actionable context. By combining data from existing tools into a unified graph, the system identifies combinations of issues that create elevated risk even when individual components appear manageable.

Current integrations cover major cloud providers and identity platforms, giving the graph broad visibility across hybrid environments. The company has not released details on pricing, deployment models, or performance benchmarks. Development remains focused on scaling the core graph engine and expanding supported data sources.