Cyber Startup Rig Security Raises $12 Million Seed Round

Cybersecurity startup Rig Security has successfully raised $12 million in a seed funding round led by TENELEVEN and Brightmind Partners. CrowdStrike Falcon Fund also participated in the strategic investment, alongside angel investors including Ami Luttwak, a co-founder of the prominent cybersecurity firm Wiz.

Rig Security, which currently employs 20 people with offices in Israel, plans to expand its team both in Israel and the United States within the year. The company was founded in early 2025 by CEO Guy Kozliner, a former Wiz employee who worked under Luttwak in the CTO's office. The management team also includes CTO Arthur Goren, formerly the first employee at Axis Security (acquired by HPE), and Head of Product Michal Haykov, who previously worked at 8200 Unit and Flow Security (acquired by CrowdStrike).

The startup has developed a real-time protection platform designed to secure identities in the era of AI agents. The platform identifies AI agents at endpoints, distinguishes their activity from human users or the accounts they operate under, and enforces real-time restrictions on their actions. It maps all identities, permissions, and actions into a unified graph connecting cloud environments, computing systems, and identity management systems.

Rig's product utilizes two complementary engines. The first, RICE, consolidates identities across an organization's systems, creating a unified view of users, their permissions, and access with over 96% accuracy. The second, a sensor, operates at endpoints to detect when an AI agent is using an employee's credentials. It differentiates AI agent activity from user activity and can block malicious actions before they impact organizational systems.

Kozliner stated that AI agents are becoming a significant part of organizational identities, operating broadly under human credentials and permissions. He noted that these agents rapidly create new access paths and permissions across systems, often undetected by existing security tools. Based on conversations with hundreds of security teams, Kozliner explained that the challenge is not only identifying risky permissions but also knowing which ones can be removed and blocked in real-time without disrupting business operations.