Israeli predictive data security platform startup Ray Security Ltd. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $11 million in funding to accelerate product development and expand go-to-market efforts in the U.S.

Founded in 2024, Ray Security has built what it calls the first predictive data security platform. The platform allows enterprises to protect their data by anticipating threats and usage patterns rather than just reacting after risks emerge.

The platform seeks to address the issue that, according to a Gartner Inc. study, only 14% of security and risk management leaders effectively secure organizational data assets. Ray Security argues that traditional data security tools treat all enterprise data the same way, generating excessive alerts, consuming resources and leaving organizations exposed for an extended period of time, despite significant security spending.

“Enterprises today are managing massive amounts of data while facing increasingly sophisticated threats,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Ariel Zamir. “In dynamic environments, static defenses fall short. Our platform learns from access patterns and adapts protection in real time, delivering adaptive protection that reduces the attack surface automatically and at scale.”

Ray Security continuously analyzes how data is accessed across users, systems, artificial intelligence agents and environments. The platform accurately predicts the data needed by the business, enabling proactive and adaptive controls that adjust in real time to the business context. The result, according to the company, is dramatic risk reduction, lower costs and smarter security operations, with threats automatically blocked as they emerge.

Under the hood, Ray Security’s platform uses what the company calls the “Predictive Data Usage Engine.” The engine component continuously monitors how data is accessed by users, systems, environments and AI agents to learn patterns over time. Using those patterns and business cycles, the engine predicts which parts of the data are likely to be accessed soon.

Once the predictions are made, Ray Security implements Dynamic Protection, a system of applying security policies based on predicted usage: Data that is unlikely to be accessed can be given tighter, more restrictive protections (or even effectively made “immune” to certain threat vectors), while data that is actively required remains accessible under appropriate controls.

Though only officially launching today, Ray Security says it already has customers, including Fortune 500 enterprises in highly regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare and technology sectors.

The seed funding round was co-led by Venture Guides and Ibex Investors.

“Ray Security is pioneering an entirely new category of data protection,” said Adi Dangot Zukovsky, a partner at Ibex Investors. “Its predictive model leverages new technological advancements to introduce a radical shift in how data security is approached, one that, at Ibex Investors, we believe will become essential for modern enterprises.”

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