Malanta, an Israeli AI startup founded by former CyberArk employees, has come out of stealth mode and raised $10 million in Seed funding to help prevent cyberattacks before they happen.
The company says it has built the world’s first AI-powered Pre-Attack Prevention platform.
This platform is designed to detect and stop cyberattack setups while they are still being prepared — before any actual intrusion happens.
The Seed funding round was led by Cardumen Capital, with The Group Ventures (TGV) also taking part.
In the earlier pre-Seed stage, investors included Udi Mokady (founder and executive chairman of CyberArk), Benny Schneider, and Harel Prag and Amit Greener, who are general partners at Rollout Ventures.
Malanta was founded in 2024 by four experienced entrepreneurs — Kobi Ben-Naim (CEO), Guy Ben-Arie (Head of Engineering), Yossi Dantes (Chief Product Officer), and Tal Kandel (Chief Business Officer).
All four are former CyberArk executives with deep experience in cybersecurity (both defense and offense), artificial intelligence, and building enterprise products that have grown from scratch to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
Malanta has already secured one patent and has two more in progress. The company has paying customers and has worked with Israel’s National Cyber Directorate to find security weaknesses and take down attack systems during the Swords of Iron War and the conflict with Iran.
The company currently has 20 employees working at its headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Today, AI-powered attackers can find and exploit digital weaknesses in just minutes. This makes traditional cybersecurity defenses, which act only after an attack begins, no longer effective.
Malanta’s platform uses predictive intelligence to spot early warning signs of possible attacks — like newly registered domains, command-and-control server setups, or phishing kit creation — helping organizations stop attackers before they strike.
“Malanta was born to solve a major gap in the age of AI: the window between exposure and compromise is shrinking dramatically,” said Kobi Ben-Naim, co-founder and CEO of Malanta. “We spoke with more than 70 CISOs and founders who told us they’re overloaded with 3–7 threat-intel feeds yet struggle to operationalize them, and success is still measured by cleanup (MTTD/MTTR), not prevention. We’re here to change that.”
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