ISRAEL, November 13, 2026 – Twenty-two months. That’s all it took for cybersecurity startup Daylight to go from an early-2025 whiteboard sketch to landing an $80 million Series B round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
Announced just this past week on November 10, the financing brings the total money raised by the company to $120 million. In addition to existing firms like Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Vintage Partners, and Maple Capital, Okta Ventures is now a new investor in the firm.
Why is institutional money chasing a company barely old enough to celebrate its second birthday? Corporate security departments are inundated with alerts, and conventional staffing approaches are unable to keep up with AI-driven attacks. Daylight—a company with offices in both New York and Tel Aviv, employing 80 people, with 43 of those based in Israel—proposes an “agent-native” solution. Rather than adding more junior analysts to screen alerts, the Aura platform uses autonomous AI agents to triage noise, investigate natural language queries, and secure breaches within minutes, leaving the difficult decisions for human engineers deployed on the front lines.
The co-founders Hagai Shapira (CEO) and Eldad Rudich (CTO) are no strangers to the game plan; the two first met in the Israeli intelligence unit and later held executive positions at automation company Torq. Daylight provides corporate customers with a choice, depending on their level of comfort—from outsourcing security operations to a combination of co-managed security operations with internal personnel.
“The future of security operations won’t be defined by how many people a company can deploy, but by how effectively AI agents can take on increasingly complex security work,” Shapira said in the company’s announcement. He further noted that the combination of the machine’s speed with human oversight has already changed the way threats are managed.
The list of clients shows that there is interest. Fortune 500 companies as well as agile technology firms such as Lovable, LastPass, Rogo, dLocal, and Miro all use the solution to protect themselves from prompt injections and unsafe integrations with Model Context Protocol. The company claims that its income has grown by over 40 times within a year, though these numbers are not independently verified and Daylight has not shared its valuation publicly.
But scaling from an 80-employee firm to a global vendor will take some time. Other established vendors of security operations centers are rapidly integrating artificial intelligence automation into their solutions as well.
Daylight expects to use the newly raised funds to increase its presence in the U.S. market, hire more engineers, and enter Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. For all that, Tel Aviv’s cybersecurity sector may be characterized by fast growth, making $120 million raised in the space of two and a quarter years still counting as a quick run.
