Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity startup based mostly in Lake Mary, Florida, has raised a $200 million spherical led by Perception Companions.
Spur, based by two former Protection Division engineers in 2017 — 5 years earlier than ChatGPT’s public launch — was prescient. The startup’s tech helps enterprises distinguish legit human customers from more and more well-hidden bot visitors to assist determine pretend customers and threats.
“As subtle felony VPNs, residential proxy networks, and anonymization infrastructure proliferate, organizations are more and more working with a crucial blind spot: they will see the exercise, however not the infrastructure behind it,” Perception’s Thomas Krane mentioned in a written assertion.
Detecting malicious visitors has, after all, been a hill company safety groups have been climbing for eons. However nothing compares to the onslaught going through them at this time. As of mid-2026, bots are actually more active on the web than people, Cloudflare reported final month.
“Thought it will be finish of 2027, then early 2027, however agentic visitors rising so quick that bots have now handed human visitors on-line for the primary time within the Web’s historical past,” Cloudflare founder and CEO Matthew Prince posted on X last month, pointing to his firm’s newest visitors report.
