Elisity, Inc., the pioneer of Cognitive Trust, has announced a $26 million Series A funding round co‑led by Two Bear Capital and AllegisCyber Capital, with participation from Atlantic Bridge. The company is the first to deliver a single cybersecurity platform that uses identity and behavior‑based intelligence to dynamically adapt security for users, devices, data, and applications across both edge and cloud environments.
The new funding will allow Elisity to scale its cloud‑delivered platform to meet growing enterprise demand. By analyzing the identity and context of people, apps, and devices—including IoT and OT—the platform continuously learns behavior to assess risk and automatically optimize protection. CEO James Winebrenner emphasized that Elisity moves beyond traditional network‑based security, enabling enterprises to adopt identity‑driven access policies quickly and without costly infrastructure overhauls.
Elisity’s Cognitive Trust platform integrates asset management, connectivity, and security, helping organizations break down silos between networking and security teams. The platform fuses identity with AI‑driven behavioral intelligence to continuously assess risk and instantly adjust access and protection policies that follow assets and people wherever they operate. Winebrenner noted that new customers can be onboarded in as little as 45 minutes, a significant improvement over traditional timelines.
The company was founded by Burjiz Pithawala, Sundher Narayan, and Srinivas Sardar, all former Cisco leaders in product development, engineering, and architecture. The executive team is led by Winebrenner, who previously guided Viptela’s go‑to‑market strategy through its acquisition by Cisco and held leadership roles at Cisco, Aviatrix, and Checkpoint Software. With this funding, Elisity is positioned to expand its innovative approach to enterprise cybersecurity and redefine how organizations secure their people and assets in a perimeter‑less world.
