Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup Tonic Security came out of stealth mode on Monday and announced it has raised $7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Hetz Ventures, with support from Vesey Ventures and several experienced investors from the security industry.
The company has built a platform that helps security teams make sense of the large number of alerts and messages from their security tools. The goal is to help organizations focus on fixing the most important problems, instead of just adding more information to the pile.
Tonic Security is led by CEO Sharon Isaaci, CPO David Warshavski, and CTO Greg Ainbinder—all experienced cybersecurity professionals with backgrounds in enterprise security and incident response. Before starting Tonic, Isaaci was an executive at Sygnia and previously served as a CISO and Senior Intelligence Officer in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
David Warshavski also worked at Sygnia, where he led the Red Team and Enterprise Security department and worked closely with Fortune 500 company security leaders. Greg Ainbinder held senior roles in Israel’s elite intelligence Unit 8200, where he founded the AI department and the Secure Cloud Center.
According to Isaaci, Tonic addresses a recurring problem he encountered: “In many of the breaches I was involved in, the vulnerability had already been identified but wasn’t addressed in time,” he said. “There was no shortage of information; what was missing was the right context to know what mattered most.”
Tonic’s platform works with the security and IT tools a company is already using. It organizes the alerts and findings by using context, like how systems are connected and how important they are to the business.
This helps security teams focus on the issues that matter most to the organization—not just the ones that seem the most serious at first glance.
Tonic’s product follows a growing trend in cybersecurity, where companies want to cut down on unnecessary alerts and make smarter decisions, instead of just adding more tools to find threats.
The company explains that its platform isn’t meant to replace existing security systems, but to help teams get more value from the tools they already use.
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