Florida-based bot-detection company Spur Intelligence has secured $200 million in a funding round led by Insight Partners.
Key facts
- •Spur Intelligence was founded in 2017 by two former Defense Department engineers.
- •The company is based in Lake Mary, Florida.
- •Insight Partners led the $200 million funding round.
- •Cloudflare reported in mid-2026 that bot traffic has surpassed human traffic online.
- •Spur's technology is designed to detect malicious traffic from sources like residential proxy networks and criminal VPNs.
Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity firm headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida, has raised $200 million in a new funding round. The investment was led by Insight Partners. Founded in 2017 by two former Defense Department engineers, the company specializes in technology designed to distinguish human users from bot traffic to identify potential security threats.
Addressing Bot Traffic
Spur’s technology aims to help enterprises identify fake users and threats by analyzing the infrastructure behind internet traffic. Insight Partners’ Thomas Krane noted that organizations often face a blind spot where they can observe activity but fail to see the underlying infrastructure, such as criminal VPNs and residential proxy networks.
Rising Bot Activity
The demand for bot-detection tools comes as automated traffic continues to grow. According to a report from Cloudflare, bots are now more active on the internet than humans. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince stated that agentic traffic has grown rapidly, marking the first time in internet history that bot traffic has surpassed human activity.
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