Daylight Secures $80 Mn at $400 Million Valuation to Expand AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platform

The round includes new investor Okta Ventures, alongside existing investors Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Vintage Partners and Maple Capital. Although Daylight has not officially disclosed its valuation, market estimates place it at approximately $400 million.

Funding to Support Global Expansion and Sales Growth

Daylight will use the new funding to expand its operations in the United States and enter additional markets across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

The company also plans to strengthen its cybersecurity engineering and technology teams and accelerate the development of its AI-powered security platform.

CEO and co-founder Hagai Shapira said the company wants to maintain its rapid growth. He added that most of the newly raised capital will be used to expand its sales team.

Revenue Grows More Than 40 Times in One Year

Daylight reported that its revenue has grown more than 40 times over the past year, supported by increasing demand from large enterprises and AI-focused businesses.

The company expects to generate tens of millions of dollars in revenue by the end of 2027. These revenue figures are based on company-reported information.

Its customer base includes Fortune 500 companies and growing technology businesses such as Lovable, LastPass, Rogo, dLocal and Miro.

AI Agents and Human Experts Power Cybersecurity Services

Daylight combines AI agents with human cybersecurity engineers to detect, investigate and respond to cyber threats.

Its engineers customize AI agents according to each customer's technology infrastructure, security requirements, workflows and risk profile. The agents handle routine security activities, while human experts manage situations that require technical knowledge and decision-making.

The company offers different service models, including fully managed security operations, collaboration with internal security teams and direct integration of its engineers into customer operations.

According to Daylight, its technology can identify threats within seconds and respond to or contain them within minutes. The company claims its response times can be up to 10 times faster than traditional managed security service providers.

Its Aura platform enables customers to investigate security incidents through natural-language queries, access security information through a centralized data lake and manage security operations through a single interface.

Expanding Security for Enterprise AI Systems

Daylight is also developing capabilities to address cybersecurity risks associated with enterprise AI adoption.

These risks include prompt injection attacks, vulnerabilities involving Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations and unusual activities generated by AI systems.

The platform analyzes AI-related security signals alongside identity, endpoint, cloud and software-as-a-service security data. According to the company, these capabilities are already being used by enterprise customers, including Miro.

About Daylight

Founded in early 2025, Daylight is an Israeli cybersecurity company established by Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rudich, who previously worked at cybersecurity automation company Torq.

Before founding Daylight, Shapira served as an early product leader at Torq, while Rudich was the company's first employee and later became its Vice President of Research and Development.

Daylight currently employs around 80 people, including 43 employees in Israel. The company focuses on combining AI agents and human cybersecurity expertise to help enterprises detect, investigate and respond to security threats.

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