Aryon Closes $25 Million Series A, with Asaf Cohen Among the Investors

Israeli cybersecurity company Aryon, founded about a year and a half ago, is closing a $25 million Series A round. Among the investors is actor Asaf Cohen, joining several well-known backers from earlier rounds, including singer Omer Adam, who reportedly invested about $1 million, former prime minister Ehud Barak and entrepreneur Yasmin Lukatz.

Aryon has raised $38 million to date. Its investors also include entrepreneurs such as CYE founder and CEO Robi Aronshvili, Talon founder Ofer Ben-Nun and Paragon founder Idan Nurick. The current round was led by the U.S. fund Brightmind and Skinos Ventures, the fund of entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer, who was himself an early investor in the company.

For Cohen, who for years served as the face of Bank Hapoalim, this is his first investment in startups, the amount was not disclosed. Adam is more experienced in this regard, and alongside startup launches he is also a partner and founder in a company that builds giant server farms for AI infrastructure.

Aryon, which offers cloud security solutions, was founded in 2024 by three graduates of the IDF cyber unit Matzov, Ron Arbel, who serves as CEO, Ariel Litmanovitz, chief technology officer, and Yair Ledzinsky, chief product officer. Its customers include IBI Investment House, U.S. banks such as Valley and OceanFirst, and shipping company International Seaways.

According to Arbel, "We founded Aryon because cloud security must move from an endless process of fixing issues to true prevention, from a state of 'knowing every misconfiguration' to 'no misconfigurations at all.' In the AI era, infrastructures are changing faster than security teams can keep up with manually, and organizations can no longer afford to discover risks only after they have already entered the organization. Aryon makes prevention practical even in the most complex cloud environments in the world."

Kramer added that he "strongly believes in the team and supports Aryon's journey to change cloud security, from a place of identifying security gaps to a place of preventing them before they are even created."