Investments and exits.
$718M RAISED | 8 DEALS | 4 COUNTRIES
- Cyera has raised $600 million in a Series G round led by Evolution Equity Partners.
- A Security has emerged from stealth with $37 million in funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Cyberstarts, and angel investors.
- Aryon Security has raised $29 million in a Series A round led by Brightmind Partners.
- Opal Security has raised $23 million in funding led by Greylock and Battery Ventures.
- Archestra.AI has secured $10 million in seed funding led by 20VC.
- Offroad has emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding led by Ibex Investors and Skywell Capital Partners.
- Willow has raised $7 million in a seed round led by Hetz Ventures.
- Oplane has raised $5.2 million in seed funding led by Seed Capital.
Israeli data storage security firm Cyera has raised $600 million in a Series G round led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from Cyberstarts, Temasek, and all existing investors including Accel, AT&T Ventures, Blackstone, Coatue, Spark Capital, and others. The company landed $400 million in a Series F round just five months ago at a valuation of $9 billion, and the new funding raises its valuation to $12 billion. The company stated, "Cyera is now positioned as one of the most valuable privately held security companies in the world with total funding over $2 billion." TechCrunch cites sources as saying Cyera is still "far from profitable," and the new deal values the company far above its annual recurring revenue (ARR). A Cyera spokesperson told the publication that "the numbers cited are factually and significantly inaccurate."
Israeli autonomous offensive security platform provider A Security has emerged from stealth with $37 million in funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Cyberstarts, and angel investors. The company says it "will use the capital to scale growth and expand its autonomous offensive security platform that identifies and addresses exploit paths before they are utilized by malicious agents."
Israeli cloud security enforcement platform Aryon Security has raised $29 million in a Series A round led by Brightmind Partners, with participation from Datadog Ventures, Shlomo Kramer’s new fund Skinos Ventures, and existing seed investors Blumberg Capital and Viola Ventures.
San Francisco-based identity and access management (IAM) company Opal Security has raised $23 million in funding led by Greylock and Battery Ventures, with participation from Cambium Capital. The company stated, "More than 60% of Opal's team has joined since the start of 2026, with hiring accelerating across engineering, product, and go-to-market."
London-based AI agent security platform Archestra.AI has secured $10 million in seed funding led by 20VC. The company stated, "We're expanding GTM and engineering, deepening the open-source ecosystem, and pushing harder into security-conscious industries where we already have pull (legal, procurement, ops, regulated finance)."
Israeli identity security firm Offroad has emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding led by Ibex Investors and Skywell Capital Partners. According to SiliconANGLE, the company "will put the funding toward hiring, product development, and a bigger U.S. footprint."
Israeli agentic access platform Willow has raised $7 million in a seed round led by Hetz Ventures. The company says the funding "will be used to enhance the next phase of Willow's go-to-market while accelerating product development."
Swedish automated threat modeling platform Oplane has raised $5.2 million in seed funding led by Seed Capital, with participation from Icebreaker.vc and angel investors. The company stated, "The new funding goes toward scaling go-to-market and deepening our integrations with the tools teams already build in: Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. We're also growing the team with senior hires across software engineering, security, QA, and go-to-market."
Mergers and acquisitions.
7 DEALS | 3 COUNTRIES
- Optiv has sold its advisory, consulting, and transformation (ACT) project-based services business to Florida-headquartered Vobis Ventures.
- Irish MSSP Stryve has acquired Kilkenny-based IT services provider BITS South-East Limited (BITS).
- Swedish IT group Nordlo has acquired Swedish MSSP Nethouse.
- Snowflake intends to acquire Enterprise Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform Natoma.
- Brightline Technologies has acquired compliance services provider Security Vitals.
- Valiant Solutions has acquired threat assessment firm BreakPoint Labs.
- Virginia-based federal systems integrator Tyto Athene has acquired Texas-headquartered Ready Support Services.
Denver-headquartered cybersecurity company Optiv has sold its advisory, consulting, and transformation (ACT) project-based services business to Florida-headquartered Vobis Ventures, an investment firm focused on AI-native cybersecurity. Optiv stated, "The Vobis Ventures-backed ACT business will initially operate under the name Optiv Consulting [formerly part of Optiv Security]. As Optiv’s new priority services partner for the next year, Vobis Ventures will leverage ACT as the foundation of its cybersecurity services business with the capital to grow and scale to new levels....Optiv will continue to advise, deploy and operate complete cybersecurity programs for more than 6,000 clients across every major industry, now with ACT services delivered through Vobis Ventures-backed Optiv Consulting as an exclusive partner. Optiv’s managed services and staff augmentation will remain in-house."
Irish MSSP Stryve has acquired Kilkenny-based IT services provider BITS South-East Limited (BITS). Stryve stated, "The deal with BITS further accelerates our ambition by strengthening the leadership team, deepening our technical expertise, and enhancing our services."
Swedish IT group Nordlo has acquired Swedish MSSP Nethouse. Nordlo stated, "Nethouse has offices in Gothenburg, Karlstad, Sundsvall, and Örebro. In 2025, the company reported revenue of SEK 253 million, making it the largest single acquisition since Nordlo was founded in 2018."
Menlo Park, California-based cloud data platform Snowflake intends to acquire Enterprise Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform Natoma. Snowflake stated, "With the close of this acquisition, Snowflake will establish a natively integrated governance and identity layer for AI agents and MCP tool access, making it easier to securely connect and manage how AI systems interact with their enterprise applications, databases, APIs and tools."
Michigan-based MSSP Brightline Technologies has acquired compliance services provider Security Vitals (also based in Michigan). The companies stated, "Brightline began helping organizations navigate the path to Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) compliance in 2016, while Security Vitals launched similar compliance-focused services in 2018. Together, the two organizations will deliver expanded cybersecurity and compliance solutions designed to help businesses achieve CMMC readiness, strengthen their overall security posture, and meet evolving regulatory requirements."
Tysons Corner, Virginia-based cybersecurity contractor Valiant Solutions has acquired Merrifield, Virginia-based threat assessment firm BreakPoint Labs. Valiant stated, "The combination expands Valiant's capabilities across AI-enabled cyber operations, operational technology security, advanced penetration testing and adversarial threat emulation, modern software development and DevSecOps, software factory enablement, and agentic cybersecurity workflow automation."
Reston, Virginia-based federal systems integrator Tyto Athene has acquired Texas-headquartered Ready Support Services, a provider of enterprise service management and cloud migration for US intelligence agencies. Dennis Kelly, CEO of Tyto Athene, stated, "The acquisition of Ready Support Services marks an important step in expanding Tyto's reach across the Intelligence Community. "RSS brings deep, mission-tested expertise in enterprise service management, IT asset management, and a comprehensive ServiceNow operations focus. Their specialized cloud migration and on-premises deployment capabilities deliver exactly the tailored support the IC requires when transitioning and securing its most critical applications."
Executive moves.
TachTech has named Larry Letow as its new CEO. Letow previously served as CEO at CyberCX.
Hatz AI has appointed Jim Fanning as President. Fanning has previously held senior roles at Oracle, AWS, and Databricks.
Reco has appointed Zoe Hillenmeyer as Chief Operating Officer, Kristen Twining as Senior Vice President of Americas Sales and Business Development, Dana Harduf as Chief Human Resources Officer, Sandy Mathews as Vice President of Product Marketing, and Merav Keren Kindler as Vice President of Marketing. The company has also opened a physical office in Texas and placed a team on the ground in Ireland and the UK, appointing Oliver Sears as the company's UKI Sales Director.
Armadin has named Barbara Massa as Chief Operating Officer. Massa most recently served as Senior Partner and Chief Operating Officer at NightDragon.
Sonatype has appointed Casey Watson as Chief Revenue Officer, Jason McClelland as Chief Marketing Officer, and Sherri Manning as Chief Human Resources Officer.
Infoblox has hired Henrik Smith as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Smith previously served as Head of Security for Devices and Services at Amazon.
BreachRx has appointed Stephen Garcia as CISO. Garcia has previously held leadership roles at Western Union, BNP Paribas, Broadridge Financial, Johnson Controls, ConsenSys, FanDuel, and Napster.
Cyera has appointed Naveen Palavalli as Chief Marketing Officer and Aygun Suleymanova as Chief Brand Officer.
TENEX.ai has hired Richard Rogers as Chief Marketing Officer. Rogers most recently served as CMO at ExtraHop.
Token has appointed Dianne Liu as Vice President of Marketing. Liu previously led marketing at TechMD / 1nteger Security.
HITRUST has named Myrna Soto as Chief Trust Officer. Soto is the founder and CEO of Apogee Executive Advisors, and currently serves on the boards of CMS Energy, TriNet, Delinea, and Vectra.ai.
CrowdStrike has appointed Dr. Bartley Richardson as Chief AI and Autonomous Systems Officer to lead the company's AI strategy. Richardson previously led engineering for agentic AI, cybersecurity AI, and AI infrastructure at NVIDIA.
Zscaler has named Hannah Grap as Vice President of Brand Marketing. Grap most recently served as Senior VP, Corporate Marketing & Communications at Proofpoint.
Assail has added Kenneth W. Bible, former CISO for the US Department of Homeland Security, to its board of directors.