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Spur raises $200M to fight bot traffic

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Spur Intelligence raised $200M from Insight Partners to expand tools that separate real human users from bot and AI-agent traffic hidden behind proxies.

By Rami Steitieh Wednesday, 29 July · 20:35 UTC Read 1 min · 1 source

Spur Intelligence, founded in 2017 by former Defense Department engineers, raised $200 million from Insight Partners. The company identifies bot and agentic AI traffic hidden behind VPNs, residential proxies, and other anonymization infrastructure, arguing that automated, non-human traffic is now more active on the internet than genuine human users.

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01Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insighttechcrunch.com · reporting

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