Israeli cybersecurity startup Daylight Security Inc. revealed today that it has raised $33 million in new funding to fuel its U.S. expansion, accelerate product development and support the launch of new artificial intelligence-driven modules for identity threat response and cloud workload protection.

Founded earlier this year by Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rodich, veterans of Israel’s Unit 8200 intelligence unit, Daylight offers a managed detection and response platform designed for the reality of rapidly evolving cyber threats and resource-constrained security teams. The platform includes AI agents that perform continuous monitoring, triage, context-aware investigation and initial remediation. Human analysts intervene for higher-level decision-making and scope.

The idea is that instead of solely relying on traditional security operation center infrastructures, Daylight’s agents can reduce alert fatigue, false positives and time to resolution, a key pain point for many large enterprises.

Daylight’s solution is built to integrate with existing enterprise environments, cloud, on-premises or hybrid and can be deployed quickly. The company says its system can go live in under an hour and start delivering full coverage, combining the power of AI agents with elite human cyber analysts around the clock.

The platform also addresses the major structural shifts in cybersecurity, such as the rise of AI-driven threats, the proliferation of hybrid and distributed work environments, cloud misconfigurations, identity-based attacks and automation of adversary tools. By combining autonomous agents with human oversight, the company aims to deliver what it terms “Managed Agentic Security Services,” a next-gen category positioned between traditional MDR and full-blown autonomous security system.

“Cyberthreats are evolving faster than traditional SOC and MDR services can handle,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Hagai Shapira. “We built Daylight to deliver a new level of managed protection services that respond with the speed and precision of AI, guided by human expertise.”

The Series A round was led by Craft Ventures Management, with Bain Capital Ventures, Maple VC and a number of individual investors also participating. Individual investors included Assaf Rappaport of Wiz Inc., Ofer Smadari, Leonid Belkind and Eldad Livni of Torq Inc., Tamar Bar-Ilan and Yotam Segev of Cyera Inc., Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael of Armis Security Inc., and Ofir Ehrlich of EON SE.

“Security leaders are eager to integrate generative AI and agents within their operations,” said Kevin Gabura, principal at Craft Ventures. “Daylight’s MDR is a turnkey, high-impact way to accomplish that, with dozens of organizations already on board.”

Prior to the new funding, Daylight had raised a seed round of $7 million in July, according to data from Tracxn.

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