Pavel Gurvich, who helped start the cybersecurity company Guardicore, has raised $32 million for a brand-new startup called Tenzai.
Gurvich is an experienced cybersecurity expert. Until recently, he worked as a top executive at Akamai, leading their research and enterprise security teams in Israel. His new company, Tenzai, will focus on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI).
The startup, Tenzai, is still in stealth mode, which means it’s not sharing many details yet. It has received support from two big U.S. investment firms: Greylock Partners and Battery Ventures.
Pavel Gurvich is not building the company alone. His co-founders include Ariel Zeitlin (also a co-founder of Guardicore), Ofri Ziv (one of the first employees at Guardicore), and two others – Itamar Tal and Aner Mazursky.
In 2021, the U.S. company Akamai bought the Israeli cybersecurity firm Guardicore for around $600 million. It was Akamai’s biggest and most important deal in Israel.
After the deal—and a few more acquisitions—Akamai’s cyber division in Israel, led by Pavel Gurvich, became the main centre for the company’s global cybersecurity work.
After buying Guardicore, Akamai continued to grow its security business by buying more Israeli companies.
It purchased two more startups, Neosec and Noname Security, each for several hundred million dollars.
Guardicore was started in 2013 by Pavel Gurvich, Ariel Zeitlin, and Dror Sal’ee. The company raised over $110 million from many big investors, including Qumra Capital, Cisco, Dell, Deutsche Telekom, Partech, ClalTech, Battery Ventures, 83North, TPG, and Greylock.
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