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Max Pollard

@maxpollard415

Co-founder & CEO @cotoolai | San Francisco native

San Francisco, CA Katılım Haziran 2020
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Max Pollard@maxpollard415·
Excited to announce that @cotoolai has raised a $7.4M seed round led by @a16z to build the agent operating system for security teams. Threat actors now scale with tokens. Campaigns that used to require a coordinated team can be run by a small group with the right model harness. Defense has been absorbing that hit with the same playbook and the same headcount. We built Cotool to make defense compound in the same way. Grateful to the team at @a16z, @ycombinator, @WndrCoLLC, @homebrew, and our angels from Okta, Ramp, Cloudflare, and others who've lived this problem firsthand. If you’re a security practitioner looking for more leverage in the AI age, come see how Cotool can help!
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ChenLi W
ChenLi W@chenliw·
@maxpollard415 @LererHippeau Yes me too and I’m pretty sure they’re doing selective web search to enrich (nailed some tricky spellings in past), that’s why I was surprised at this one!
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ChenLi W@chenliw·
911 I would like to report a murder by voice transcription @LererHippeau
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Max Pollard
Max Pollard@maxpollard415·
Plugged cotool into deathbyclawd and I'm happy to report back that we're solely sweating.
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Max Pollard@maxpollard415·
Someone tell my mom I made it on camera! All jokes aside, working with the @elise_ai team has been an absolute treat. They're doing some awesome stuff over there (and they're hiring across all roles)
Cotool@cotoolai

New case study alert! Learn more about how @elise_ai is leveraging Cotool to enable their rapid scale. Across detection, response, and operating 24/7, Cotool agents have enabled eliseAI to scale with flexibility and control across all security functions.

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Max Pollard@maxpollard415·
Sharing some more @cotoolai research: NYU CTF Bench. 81 real CSAW CTF challenges across reversing, forensics, and misc. tasks to test end-to-end cyber capability. Claude Opus 4.6 led at 79%, GPT-5.2 hit 63%, and Gemini 3.0 Flash / GPT stood out on cost.
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Max Pollard@maxpollard415·
Hiring across all roles! GTM, Eng, etc. Never been a better time to build.. DMs open
Katie@katiekirsch

If you're looking for your next big thing... here's a new list of open roles / startups hiring right now. Curated by our team at @a16z. This week we've included founders like @maxpollard415, @nicckopp, @matt_haf, @drfeifei, @ianbrooke, @askvladi, @benleventhal, @ryanglasgow, and more. Full list here! 👇 a16zbuild.substack.com/p/elevenlabs-f…

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Max Pollard
Max Pollard@maxpollard415·
@koomen Thanks Pete!! Appreciate all the support and time especially as we were just getting off the ground
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Pete Koomen
Pete Koomen@koomen·
Big congrats to @maxpollard415 and team on the monster seed from A16z. Just like drones on a battlefield, agents wielded by small teams of attackers pose an entirely new kind of security threat. Cotool helps security teams fight agents with agents.
Max Pollard@maxpollard415

Excited to announce that @cotoolai has raised a $7.4M seed round led by @a16z to build the agent operating system for security teams. Threat actors now scale with tokens. Campaigns that used to require a coordinated team can be run by a small group with the right model harness. Defense has been absorbing that hit with the same playbook and the same headcount. We built Cotool to make defense compound in the same way. Grateful to the team at @a16z, @ycombinator, @WndrCoLLC, @homebrew, and our angels from Okta, Ramp, Cloudflare, and others who've lived this problem firsthand. If you’re a security practitioner looking for more leverage in the AI age, come see how Cotool can help!

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Max Pollard
Max Pollard@maxpollard415·
Excited to announce that @cotoolai has raised a $7.4M seed round led by @a16z to build the agent operating system for security teams. Threat actors now scale with tokens. Campaigns that used to require a coordinated team can be run by a small group with the right model harness. Defense has been absorbing that hit with the same playbook and the same headcount. We built Cotool to make defense compound in the same way. Grateful to the team at @a16z, @ycombinator, @WndrCoLLC, @homebrew, and our angels from Okta, Ramp, Cloudflare, and others who've lived this problem firsthand. If you’re a security practitioner looking for more leverage in the AI age, come see how Cotool can help!
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ChenLi W
ChenLi W@chenliw·
Very excited to partner with the @cotoolai team. The good guys on your overworked security team will need better tools!!
Cotool@cotoolai

We've raised a $7.4M seed round led by @a16z to build the agent operating system for security teams. Threat actors now scale with tokens. Campaigns that used to require a coordinated team can be run by a small group with the right model harness. Defense has been absorbing that hit with the same playbook and the same headcount. We built Cotool to make defense compound in the same way. Grateful to the team at @a16z , @YCombinator, @WndrCoLLC , @homebrew , and our angels from Okta, Ramp, Cloudflare, and others who've lived this problem firsthand. If you’re a security practitioner looking for more leverage in the AI age, come see how Cotool can help!

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Malika Aubakirova
Malika Aubakirova@MaikaThoughts·
We're excited to announce our investment in Cotool. Today, cybersecurity attacks are increasingly mounted by coordinated AI swarms. The cost of cyber attacks is approaching zero. Security teams face 100 times more attacks, and they don’t have the tools to defend themselves. @cotoolai has leveled the playing field. Cotool is building the agent operating system for cybersecurity teams to detect and respond to modern threats. Their AI agents can respond to threats across your entire product surface, investigate the impact of those threats in seconds, not days. And instead of simply ingesting alerts and routing them to analysts, Cotool continuously refines the alerting systems themselves. Their system improves with use rather than degrading under load. Cotool shifts what security professionals are able to scale. Instead of applying an inordinate burden on scaling headcount, Cotool allows users to scale their defensive efforts like AI models that scale with tokens, encoding institutional context directly into the detection layer so it compounds. Because let’s be honest, adding headcount has never solved a context problem. Security doesn’t need more people staring at more alerts. It needs systems that get smarter. @maxpollard415,@endorseurgirl, and @eddieconkmlare the founding members of Material Security, and are now building the system that fixes the operating system for modern security operations @zanelackey
Max Pollard@maxpollard415

Excited to announce that @cotoolai has raised a $7.4M seed round led by @a16z to build the agent operating system for security teams. Threat actors now scale with tokens. Campaigns that used to require a coordinated team can be run by a small group with the right model harness. Defense has been absorbing that hit with the same playbook and the same headcount. We built Cotool to make defense compound in the same way. Grateful to the team at @a16z, @ycombinator, @WndrCoLLC, @homebrew, and our angels from Okta, Ramp, Cloudflare, and others who've lived this problem firsthand. If you’re a security practitioner looking for more leverage in the AI age, come see how Cotool can help!

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Dylan Reider
Dylan Reider@dylan_reider·
Couldn't be more excited for @maxpollard415 @eddieconkml @endorseurgirl and the Cotool team on announcing their seed round led by @a16z Feel lucky to be an angel investor. Cotool is an incredible company building the agent OS for security teams. Check out more below
Max Pollard@maxpollard415

Excited to announce that @cotoolai has raised a $7.4M seed round led by @a16z to build the agent operating system for security teams. Threat actors now scale with tokens. Campaigns that used to require a coordinated team can be run by a small group with the right model harness. Defense has been absorbing that hit with the same playbook and the same headcount. We built Cotool to make defense compound in the same way. Grateful to the team at @a16z, @ycombinator, @WndrCoLLC, @homebrew, and our angels from Okta, Ramp, Cloudflare, and others who've lived this problem firsthand. If you’re a security practitioner looking for more leverage in the AI age, come see how Cotool can help!

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Max Pollard@maxpollard415·
Me reviewing frontend code these days
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