Edge Security Management startup Huskeys Security Ltd. launched today with the announcement that it has raised $8 million in funding to scale up its platform and try to accelerate adoption across global enterprise customers.

Founded in 2025, Huskeys is seeking to solve a problem the company claims had been hiding in plain sight for decades: the fundamental failure of web application security, which still relies on legacy technologies that lack the connectivity, context and automation required to keep pace with today’s dynamic environments.

Huskeys solution is designed to address longstanding limitations in web application firewalls, whereby traditional WAFs are outdated and ineffective in modern environments. In 2026, traffic increasingly comes from application programming interfaces and automated agents, making it difficult to distinguish legitimate from malicious activity.

“Web traffic has shifted from humans to APIs and now to automated agents, making it harder than ever to distinguish between legitimate and malicious activity,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Itai Gafni (pictured, left, with co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Roy Weisfeld). “Security teams have essentially given up on making their WAF effective because the tradeoff is too high,”

The company has developed what it calls an Edge Security Management platform, which sits on top of existing infrastructure rather than replacing it. The technology integrates an agentic layer across the entire edge security stack with simple plug-and-play deployment that works across multicloud and multi-WAF environments.

The ESM platform acts as an intelligence control plane for the edge and unifies the flow of CDN-WAF-Infra-App into one cohesive layer. It uses an artificial intelligence engine to abstract provider-specific syntax, enrich it with organizational environment context, and apply AI-driven analysis of traffic behavior, business logic and risk.

The platform also continuously assesses, adapts and orchestrates rules, policies and configurations, optimizing for both security and business outcomes and, in doing so, aligns security with the speed of modern applications.

Gafni added that the company was not just offering another security tool but a true business asset for organizations that rely on web traffic as a core revenue driver. “Huskeys was built to integrate within minutes and deliver value within hours — not weeks,” he said. “Now teams can stop guessing and turn their WAF from a business blocker into a revenue generator.”

Though formally launching only today, Huskeys is already working with dozens of global companies, including TikTok Pte. Ltd., Merlin Entertainments Group Ltd. and Hugging Face Inc. In one customer case study, Huskeys’ engine identified overly aggressive, vendor-managed WAF rules that were blocking legitimate customers from completing purchases on an e-commerce site. By recommending precise rule changes, Huskeys says, it eliminated false positives and restored millions in revenue in hours.

Investors in Huskeys’ seed round included 10D Ventures, toDay Ventures, Merlin Ventures, SVAngel, CCL Industries Inc., Alumni Ventures Group, a number of individual cybersecurity angels and industry participants, soccer star Mario Götze, U.S. National Football League player Kelvin Beachum and 2026 NFL Hall of Famer Larry Fitzgerald.

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