Blast Security, a startup from Tel Aviv founded by former Solebit employees and elite IDF unit veterans, announced on Monday that it has raised $10 million in a Seed funding round, co-led by 10D and MizMaa Ventures. For reference, Solebit was acquired by Mimecast in 2018 for about $100 million.
The founders of Blast Security—Boris Vaynberg (CEO), Ido Bukra (CPO), and Roi Panai (CTO)—came up with the idea while serving on reserve duty. They were leading a national-level cloud security project.
During that experience, they realized that cloud security needs to keep up with the fast and complex environments it protects. They also saw that preventive protections should be built into systems from the start, not added later.
“Cloud adoption and AI have multiplied complexity and risk faster than teams can keep up,” said Boris Vaynberg, Blast’s co-founder and CEO. “The market is full of tools for detection and remediation, but the only reliable way to mitigate risk is to prevent it in the first place.” He likened the challenge to the early days of the automobile: “Many believed horses were good enough. It’s hard to see how a new approach can redefine the standard, until it becomes the standard.”
Blast Security aims to move cloud security from reacting to attacks after they happen to preventing them before they occur. Instead of dealing with alerts and chasing threats, Blast builds a constantly evolving protective system that adapts to the company’s cloud environment.
This approach helps reduce alert overload, lowers the amount of manual work needed, and minimizes the damage that any attack could cause.
The Blast founders have worked together for over ten years and have already created successful security products, including at Solebit (later acquired by Mimecast). Based in Tel Aviv, Blast is supported by top investors and trusted by global companies.
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