Daylight Raises $80M Series B for Agent-Plus-Human Security Operations
Daylight was founded in early 2025, and less than two years later it has raised $120 million. Its pitch is the opposite of "the agent replaces the analyst": AI agents do the daily grind of security monitoring, and human security engineers build and tune those agents for each customer.
The Israeli company raised an $80 million Series B led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Okta Ventures joined as a new investor, alongside existing backers Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Vintage Partners and Maple Capital. Valuation wasn't disclosed; Calcalist estimates about $400 million. CEO Hagai Shapira told Calcalist most of the money goes to the sales team, plus U.S. expansion, entry into Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific, and more engineering hires. The earlier rounds were a $7 million seed and a $33 million Series A three months later.
The product is managed detection and response, the outsourced security operations center. The agents handle most of the work of finding, investigating and containing threats; humans take the calls that need judgment. Customers include Lovable, LastPass, Rogo, dLocal and Miro. Daylight says revenue grew more than 40 times in a year and expects tens of millions in revenue by the end of 2027. It is also adding detection for AI-specific risks inside companies: prompt injection, MCP integrations and odd activity from AI systems, which Miro is already using.
The founders both came out of Torq, a security automation company, so they've seen how far pure automation gets before customers want a human to call. Keeping people in the loop, and charging for them, is a sane design for a job where a wrong containment can take down production. The question is margin: a services-heavy model can grow 40x from a small base, but it scales with headcount unless the agents keep taking more of the work. One sourcing note: no company press release was found, so everything here comes from Calcalist's interview with the CEO.
Source: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/x8vrvo7dt
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The Israeli company raised an $80 million Series B led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Okta Ventures joined as a new investor, alongside existing backers Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Vintage Partners and Maple Capital. Valuation wasn't disclosed; Calcalist estimates about $400 million. CEO Hagai Shapira told Calcalist most of the money goes to the sales team, plus U.S. expansion, entry into Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific, and more engineering hires. The earlier rounds were a $7 million seed and a $33 million Series A three months later.
The product is managed detection and response, the outsourced security operations center. The agents handle most of the work of finding, investigating and containing threats; humans take the calls that need judgment. Customers include Lovable, LastPass, Rogo, dLocal and Miro. Daylight says revenue grew more than 40 times in a year and expects tens of millions in revenue by the end of 2027. It is also adding detection for AI-specific risks inside companies: prompt injection, MCP integrations and odd activity from AI systems, which Miro is already using.
The founders both came out of Torq, a security automation company, so they've seen how far pure automation gets before customers want a human to call. Keeping people in the loop, and charging for them, is a sane design for a job where a wrong containment can take down production. The question is margin: a services-heavy model can grow 40x from a small base, but it scales with headcount unless the agents keep taking more of the work. One sourcing note: no company press release was found, so everything here comes from Calcalist's interview with the CEO.
Source: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/x8vrvo7dt
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