We Built Furl Because Knowing Isn't the Same as Fixing

For most security teams, the day starts the same way.

A dashboard lights up.
A list refreshes.
Another set of vulnerabilities joins the backlog.

By the time anyone gets to remediation, it's already too late — not because teams don't care, but because the system was never designed to carry work all the way through.

This is the gap Furl exists to close.

I've spent my career inside security organizations — building, scaling, and operating systems that are very good at finding problems. What I saw, again and again, was that the hardest part wasn't detection or prioritization. It was execution.

Fixing things in the real world is messy. It crosses tools, teams, and ownership boundaries. It requires context, judgment, and follow-through — the kind that doesn't live neatly in a ticket or a patch policy.

So we started asking a different question.

What if remediation didn't stop at insight?
What if software could understand the environment, generate the fix, and actually carry it out — safely?

That question became Furl.

We're building agentic AI that doesn't just recommend what to do, but helps do it. Software that understands your systems, coordinates across the tools you already rely on, and turns security findings into real remediation — not more dashboards, not more reports, but outcomes.

This week, we're sharing an important milestone in that journey.

We've closed our seed round and are announcing the company publicly with an exclusive in Axios. We're grateful for the backing of investors who understand both the urgency and the nuance of this problem — including Ten Eleven Ventures, who have spent years supporting the teams shaping modern security.

We're also fortunate to have leaders like Corey Thomas involved — people who understand where the biggest opportunities lie in bridging security and IT efficiency, and where remediation processes need to evolve.

What excites me most isn't the funding itself. It's what it enables.

It gives us the room to keep building software that respects the reality of how security and IT teams work. To invest in safety, verification, and trust — because remediation without guardrails isn't progress. And to stay opinionated about something we believe deeply: detection without execution is unfinished work.

Furl isn't trying to replace every tool in your stack. We're trying to make them matter more.

If you've ever stared at a backlog knowing exactly what needs to be fixed — and still felt stuck — you already understand why we're here.

This is just the beginning.

— Derek