Goldman Sachs Leads $80 Million Funding Round for Israeli Cyber Firm Daylight
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Israeli cybersecurity firm Daylight has raised $80 million in a Series B funding round led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The company, which integrates AI agents with human engineers for cyber defense, has now raised a total of $120 million. The funds will support expansion into new markets and further development of its AI platform. Daylight's technology aims to enhance threat detection and response speed.
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- Israeli cyber firm Daylight secured $80 million in Series B funding led by Goldman Sachs.
- The funding round brings Daylight's total capital raised to $120 million.
- Daylight's platform combines AI agents with human engineers for cyber defense.
- The company plans to use the funds for global expansion and platform development.
- Daylight's technology reportedly identifies threats in seconds and neutralizes them in minutes.
Israeli cybersecurity firm Daylight announced on Tuesday it has successfully raised $80 million in a Series B funding round, led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives' growth investment team. The company, which develops a cyber defense platform integrating AI agents with human security engineers, also saw participation from new investor Okta Ventures and existing investors Vintage Partners, Craft Ventures, Bain Capital, and Maple Capital. This latest funding brings Daylight's total capital raised since its inception to $120 million.
Founded in early 2025 by CEO Hagai Shapira and CTO Eldad Rodick, both veterans of an elite intelligence unit, Daylight's technology combines AI agents for initial threat detection and response with human engineers for system integration, oversight, and complex decision-making. The company's platform, Aura, allows clients to investigate security incidents using natural language queries and manage security operations from a single interface, reportedly identifying threats in seconds and neutralizing them in minutes, up to ten times faster than traditional managed security providers.
Daylight's funding will be used to expand its operations in the United States, enter new markets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, grow its cyber engineering and technology teams, and further develop its AI platform. The company currently employs 80 people, with 43 based in Israel. Its client base includes Fortune 500 companies and AI technology firms such as Lovable, LastPass, Rogo, dLocal, and Miro.
The company also addresses the growing need for securing AI systems themselves, identifying risks like prompt injection and anomalous AI behavior. According to a survey cited by Daylight, 65% of cybersecurity professionals using AI tools reported spending more time verifying AI recommendations and outputs compared to the previous year, highlighting the ongoing need for human oversight.
"The future of cyber operations will not be determined by the number of employees a company can hire, but by the ability of AI agents to perform complex security tasks," stated CEO Hagai Shapira. Irit Kahan, Head of Cyber Investments at Goldman Sachs, added that Daylight's model of combining human expertise with AI agents could enable companies to respond to threats with greater speed and accuracy, even at scale.
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