Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight

In Brief

Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity startup based successful Lake Mary, Florida, has raised a $200 cardinal circular led by Insight Partners.

Spur, founded successful 2017 — 5 years earlier ChatGPT’s nationalist motorboat — was prescient. The startup’s tech helps enterprises separate morganatic quality users from progressively well-hidden bot postulation to assistance place fake users and threats.

“As blase transgression VPNs, residential proxy networks, and anonymization infrastructure proliferate, organizations are progressively operating with a captious unsighted spot: they tin spot the activity, but not the infrastructure down it,” Insight’s Thomas Krane said successful a written statement.

Detecting malicious postulation has, of course, been a elevation firm information teams person been climbing for eons. But thing compares to the onslaught facing them today. As of mid-2026, bots are present more active connected the net than humans are, Cloudflare reported past month.

“Thought it would beryllium extremity of 2027, past aboriginal 2027, but agentic postulation increasing truthful accelerated that bots person present passed quality postulation online for the archetypal clip successful the Internet’s history,” Cloudflare laminitis and CEO Matthew Prince posted on X past month, pointing to his company’s latest postulation report.

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