Opti, an AI-based identity security startup founded in 2024, has raised $20 million in Seed funding. The company is addressing the growing difficulty enterprises face in controlling and managing user access within their networks.
The funding round was led by YL Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Hetz Ventures, with additional participation from Squared Circle Ventures, Maple Capital, and cybersecurity veteran Shlomo Kramer.
Opti’s platform uses AI to understand identity risks, suggest the right level of access for each user, and automatically manage safe permissions across a company. Instead of doing this manually, the system makes smart, least-privilege decisions.
To make this possible, Opti uses pre-trained large language models that are specially trained on identity-related data and security standards. The aim is for the AI to clearly understand how users, systems, and access rights are all connected.
Opti was founded in 2024 by cyber entrepreneurs Barak Perelman (CEO), Mille Gandelsman (CPO), and Ido Trivizki (CTO). All three are graduates of the same Talpiot program group and have worked together for about 20 years. In 2015, they started Indegy, a company that built a system to monitor industrial control networks in real time and detect hacking or sabotage before any damage happened.
Indegy was later acquired in 2020 by global cybersecurity company Tenable for around $100 million. After the acquisition, the three founders set up and expanded Tenable’s development center in Israel while serving as vice presidents at the company.
“Identity has evolved into a massive data ecosystem that enterprises struggle to control,” said Perelman. “Teams work incredibly hard, but they spend their time managing complexity instead of focusing on strategic opportunities. Opti gives them an intelligence layer that elevates and automates their capabilitiesת making identity operations faster, clearer, and safer.”
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