DealFlow Battle Card: Adaptive Security $55M Trigger

🚀 Battle Card: Adaptive Security

• Brian Long, CEO 📧 brian@adaptivesecurity.com

• This Adaptive Security sales trigger underscores rising budgets for AI-based social engineering defenses. → Source

• Lack of real-time risk assessment to detect deepfake persona attacks

• Insufficient training against AI-driven phishing and multi-channel social engineering

• Primary: AI-powered social engineering prevention platform → mitigate deepfake and phishing risks amid the Adaptive Security sales trigger

• Expansion: Real-time risk simulations & security training → improve employee resilience and compliance as budgets expand

• HQ: New York, NY

• Employees: ≈ 150

• Rev: ≈ $30M

• Website: Adaptive Security

🤼 Competitive Intel

• KnowBe4 — Security Awareness Training
• Unique edge: Industry-leading phishing simulations
• Evaluated by CISO & HR for training adoption
• https://www.knowbe4.com/

• Darktrace — AI-driven Threat Detection
• Unique edge: Self-learning anomaly detection
• Evaluated by Security Ops & CIO for AI capabilities
• https://www.darktrace.com/

• Cofense — Phishing Defense Platform
• Unique edge: Real-time incident response & reporting
• Evaluated by SOC & Compliance teams
• https://cofense.com/

• Barracuda — Email & Network Security
• Unique edge: Integrated, all-in-one protection
• Evaluated by IT Security & VP Ops
• https://www.barracuda.com/

✅ Do-Now Checklist

Next Step

🧠 Copy My Prompt for Personalized Cold Outreach

────────────────────────────
✏️ YOUR COMPANY
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OUR_COMPANY   = ❑<your company>❑
OFFER_BRIEF   = ❑AI-powered social engineering prevention platform❑
PROOF_METRIC  = ❑≈ TBD❑
CTA_STYLE     = ❑quick_call❑
TONE          = ❑friendly❑

────────────────────────────
📌 TARGET COMPANY
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NAME        = Brian
COMPANY     = Adaptive Security
DEPT        = ≈ TBD
SIZE        = ≈ 150
BOTTLENECK  = ≈ TBD
EVENT       = Adaptive Security Lands $55M
DETAIL      = follow-on investment from the OpenAI Startup Fund
PAIN        = Lack of real-time risk assessment for deepfake attacks
SRC         = https://vcnewsdaily.com/adaptive-security/venture-capital-funding/lsptxmzxcy
SIM_CO      = KnowBe4
WIN_METRIC  = ≈ TBD
NEXT_SIZE   = ≈ TBD
EMP_EST     = ≈ 150
REV_EST     = ≈ $30M

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TASK FOR CHATGPT
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Role: “NewsletterForLeads SDR-Assist”.

Validate any ≈ guesses via SRC.

EMAIL  (keep breaks):
Subject: 150-person ≈ TBD

Brian—noticed your ≈ TBD team is ≈ 150.

That’s when ≈ TBD slows growth.

We helped KnowBe4 fix this with AI-powered social engineering prevention platform.

Result: ≈ TBD.  
Quick call?

PS—next bottleneck hits ≈ TBD.

DM ≤45 words, TONE:
Saw your post about follow-on investment from the OpenAI Startup Fund — Lack of real-time risk assessment for deepfake attacks.  
AI-powered social engineering prevention platform. ≈ TBD.  
Quick chat?