Teleskope, the company redefining data security for the AI era, has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by M13, with continued participation from Primary Venture Partners and Lerer Hippeau. The round brings Teleskope’s total funding to $32.2 million and will accelerate product development, hiring, and go-to-market expansion.

As enterprises adopt AI at scale, 74% cite data security as their top barrier. With budget constraints and talent shortages limiting traditional security teams, legacy tools fail to meet modern demands.

Teleskope’s platform introduces the industry’s first agentic data security system, designed to function like a human security team—automatically discovering, classifying, and protecting sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. The system autonomously remediates risk in real time, giving enterprises continuous, context-aware protection.

“When I was a security engineer at Airbnb, existing tools couldn’t keep up,” said Elizabeth Nammour, Founder and CEO of Teleskope. “We built Teleskope to think and act like a human security team—detecting, contextualizing, and remediating risk automatically so enterprises can confidently adopt AI.”

The platform’s multi-stage classification pipeline uses lightweight machine learning models and contextual AI to map misconfigurations to frameworks such as NIST, GDPR, and CIS, enabling proactive compliance enforcement.

“Teleskope has transformed how we manage data security and retention,” said Lock Langdon, CISO at Aprio LLP. “It’s like having a full data management team embedded in our environment.”

As part of the funding, Karl Alomar, Managing Partner at M13 and former COO of DigitalOcean, joins Teleskope’s board of directors. “AI is reshaping enterprise infrastructure and risk,” said Alomar. “Teleskope’s agentic model delivers a new level of control and clarity for security teams.”

Teleskope is expanding its data science, engineering, and go-to-market teams.

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