Lumbra Raises $25M for Intelligence Community AI Agents

AI startup Lumbra Inc. has raised $25 million in Series A funding, led by Point72 Ventures and Ansa Capital, to deploy reliable autonomous AI agents in classified government environments. Founded by former CIA officer Aaron Brown and ex-special forces officer Michael Hiebert, Lumbra built LumbraOS, a model-neutral platform with three components: Nebula for agent orchestration and source tracing, StarChart for knowledge graphing, and Astrolabe for governance and monitoring. Within months of launch, Lumbra secured a contract with an unnamed U.S. intelligence agency and was named part of the Pentagon's Agent Network project. The company now targets healthcare, finance, and law sectors.