Israeli-American cybersecurity startup Daylight has raised $80 million in a Series B funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $120 million.
The investment round was led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives’ Growth Equity, with additional support from Okta Ventures, Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Vintage Partners, and Maple Capital.
Founded in 2024, with headquarters in New York and Tel Aviv, Daylight has built Aura, an AI-native platform that hunts for, analyzes, and contains cyber threats in real time.
Combining AI automation with human expertise, the platform continuously builds, runs, and customizes agents that handle day-to-day operations based on customers’ workflows, risks, and priorities.
Daylight provides these capabilities as part of a flexible service model. Customers can select the service to be fully managed, co-managed, or supported by forward-deployed engineers.
As AI agents handle routine operations, customers can use Aura to investigate their security environments, access security data, and manage security operations.
Daylight also covers AI platforms that organizations use, offering protection against prompt injection, risky MCPs, and rogue AI-driven activity.
“As these agents become more capable, they’ll fundamentally change how threats are detected, investigated, and contained, with expert security engineers implementing, governing, and continuously improving their operations,” Daylight co-founder and CEO Hagai Shapira said.
“At Daylight, we’re already bringing this vision to life through an agent-native model that combines the speed and scale of AI with the judgment and oversight of human experts. We’re building the foundation for a new era of security operations,” Shapira added.
The company plans to use the fresh funding to accelerate its platform’s development, expand its security and technology teams, grow its presence in the US, and enter new markets in the EMEA and APAC regions.
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