Guardio raises $40M at a $1.1B valuation

Guardio raised $40 million at a $1.1 billion valuation and says it now has 1 million paying customers, twice last year’s base. In its CEO’s funding note, the consumer-security company says AI has made scams cheap and warns that assistants that browse, shop, and click will need protection from deception too. Builders shipping consumer-facing agents should file the customer growth as a demand signal for agent-side scam defense, alongside the case for gating frontier cyber capability.