Benchmark just funded a stealthy AI company founded Qualcomm's former head of R&D

Nayeem Islam has spent the last eight years with chipmaker Qualcomm, where he founded its Silicon Valley-based R&D facility, recruited its entire team and oversaw research on all aspects of security, including applying analysis techniques like machine learning on mobile devices and in the network to detect threats early. One of the group's projects, in fact, was focused around on-device machine learning-based malware detection. Now Islam and a group of other former execs -- including from Qualcomm and Amazon, where Islam worked during the late '90s -- have created their own company that we gather is centerd around a similar, enterprise-focused premise. Though the company isn't talking, Islam was acknowledged for a paper earlier this year titled "Javascript Instrumentation for Browser Security" earlier this year. The new outfit, called Blue Hexagon, has notably attracted the attention of Benchmark, too.