Funding

Hari Mulackal Co-Founded Cantina Scores $8M in Funding

Jul 31, 2026 | By Devin Jacobs

SUMMARY

Cantina has raised $8 million in funding led by Framework Ventures.
Cantina provides an AI-powered security platform that automates cyber threat detection, investigation, and response for enterprises.
The company will use the funding to expand its autonomous security technology and improve automated security operations.

Cantina, a Miami, FL-based provider of a community-powered agentic security platform, raised $8M in a funding round led by Framework Ventures, bringing the total amount to $16.5 million.

The company plans to use this funding to scale its autonomous security technology, enabling organizations to automate security operations from threat discovery to remediation.

Funding Snapshot

Metric	Details
Fundraise Amount	$8 Million
Total Funding	$16.5 Million
Valuation	Undisclosed
Company	Cantina
Sector	Cybersecurity / AI Security
Headquarters	Miami, Florida, USA

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About Cantina

Founded by Hari Mulackal, Cantina provides a community-powered agentic security workforce that helps organizations detect, prioritize, remediate, and verify cybersecurity risks at machine speed.

The company combines autonomous security agents with a continuously updated understanding of an organization’s digital environment. Its platform maps assets including users, servers, cloud resources, databases, and code repositories while adding business context to identify and address critical risks.

Cantina serves organizations across healthcare, financial technology, and other regulated sectors, including mid-market businesses and Fortune 500 enterprises.

Core offerings include:

AI-powered autonomous security agents.
Security risk discovery and remediation.
Enterprise environment mapping.
Automated cybersecurity operations.

Core Technologies / Products / Services

Capability/Product	Application/Use Case
Agentic Security Workforce	Automating cybersecurity tasks
Environment Intelligence Platform	Mapping enterprise assets and relationships
Risk Prioritization Engine	Identifying high-impact vulnerabilities
Security Automation Agents	Threat investigation and remediation

Leadership Comments

"AI has dramatically accelerated the pace of attack," said Hari Mulackal, CEO and co-founder, Cantina. "Attackers can identify vulnerabilities, understand systems, and build exploits faster than ever before. Security teams cannot keep responding with workflows built for a pre-AI world. Defenders need AI that doesn't just identify problems, but helps investigate them, coordinate remediation, validate fixes, and continuously gets smarter with every issue it resolves."

"Every security team I know can find problems faster than they can fix them. The backlog is where the risk lives," said Matt Mock, Chief Information Security Officer at Trend Health Partners. "Cantina is the first platform we have used that carries the work through from finding an issue to driving the fix, and it lets my team operate like one far larger than it is. We keep finding new uses for it across our security program."