Alon Pluda is Co-Founder and CEO of Corma, an Israeli AI lab building the world's first foundation model purpose-built for defensive cybersecurity, countering the growing asymmetry between AI-powered attackers and human-led defenders.

Based in Tel Aviv, Pluda assembled an elite interdisciplinary team of AI researchers from Google and DeepMind alongside cybersecurity specialists from Israel's renowned Unit 8200 intelligence unit.

Recognized by Sequoia as one of the most elite hackers in the world, Pluda brings rare offensive security expertise to the defensive AI frontier, arguing that general-purpose AI models are built to attack, not defend.

Corma raised a landmark $60M Seed round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Coatue, exiting stealth just six weeks after deploying its first model.

Corma's AI has already been deployed at Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies across healthcare, financial services, energy, and retail, reducing threat response times by 94% and expanding security coverage 15x.