In Summary. Published:. 2:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, on the 28th of July, 2026. Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity business located in Lake Mary, Florida, has secured a $200 million funding round, with Insight Partners leading the investment. Spur, which was founded by two ex-Defense Department engineers in 2017, proved to be foresightful as it was established five years prior to ChatGPT’s public debut. The technology developed by the startup enables businesses to differentiate authentic human users from bot traffic that is becoming increasingly concealed, in order to detect counterfeit users and potential risks. Thomas Krane from Insight remarked in a statement, “As the number of advanced criminal VPNs, residential proxy networks, and anonymization infrastructure increases, organizations are dealing with a significant blind spot: they can observe the actions, but not the underlying infrastructure.” Identifying malicious traffic is a challenge that corporate security teams have been attempting to overcome for a long time. However, nothing can match the attack they are encountering today. According to Cloudflare’s recent report, as of mid-2026, there are now more bots active on the internet than humans. The company’s CEO, Matthew Prince, posted on X last month that agentic traffic is growing at such a rapid pace that bots have surpassed human traffic online for the first time in history. Originally, it was thought to be the end of 2027 or early 2027, but the growth of bots has accelerated.
