Cyber startup Daylight raises $33 million just three months after its Seed round
Backed by Craft Ventures and top Israeli founders, the Tel Aviv-based company is building an AI-driven security platform to modernize detection and response.
Israeli cybersecurity startup Daylight has raised $33 million in Series A funding, led by Craft Ventures with participation from Bain Capital Ventures and Maple VC, alongside a who’s who of Israel’s cybersecurity founders. The round, coming three months after the company’s $7 million Seed round, brings its total funding to $40 million and underscores investor urgency around AI-powered security operations as digital threats accelerate.
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Founded by Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rodich, both veterans of Israel’s elite military intelligence Unit 8200, Daylight develops an AI-native managed detection and response (MDR) platform designed to autonomously identify and contain cyber threats. The company already serves dozens of enterprises in the U.S. and Europe, including The Motley Fool, Cresta, and McKinsey Investment Office.
The new funding will support U.S. expansion, accelerate product development, and launch new modules for identity threat response and cloud workload protection.
With global cyberattacks up 50% year over year and the average cost of a breach reaching $4.45 million, enterprises are being forced to modernize security operations. Traditional MDR and Security Operations Center (SOC) services, often labor-intensive and fragmented, have struggled to keep pace with the sophistication and volume of AI-driven attacks.
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“Cyber threats are evolving faster than traditional SOC and MDR services can handle,” said Hagai Shapira, Daylight’s co-founder and CEO. “We built Daylight to deliver managed protection services that respond with the speed and precision of AI, guided by human expertise. The detection and response market is being reinvented, and Daylight is proud to be leading that change.”
According to the company, its platform can deploy in under an hour, integrating with cloud or on-premise environments. Its AI agents learn from every investigation and can act autonomously under analyst supervision, detecting and containing threats continuously.
