Cyberstarts

Cyberstarts is the only fund in the world that is financed by entrepreneurs from its domain of focus. It is built, run, and financed by people. Cyberstarts is focused on identifying the most difficult cybersecurity challenges and solving them while giving back to a younger generation of entrepreneurs.

Simon, Lior

General Partner

48 past transactions

Island

Series E in 2025
Island is a cybersecurity startup that specializes in developing an enterprise browser aimed at enhancing productivity while ensuring security. Its platform enables organizations to maintain comprehensive control, visibility, and governance over their online activities, thereby improving overall performance. By focusing on the last mile of cybersecurity, Island helps businesses reduce their cyber footprint and fosters a safe environment for work processes. The solution is designed to balance the need for operational efficiency with robust security measures, ultimately facilitating a seamless workflow for enterprises.

Blockaid

Series B in 2025
Blockaid enable builders to protect users from fraud, phishing and hacks.

Upwind Security

Series A in 2024
Upwind Security is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting organizations' digital assets and enhancing internet security. The company develops tools that identify potential threats to data integrity and offers security measures that support compliance with industry standards. By managing risks and leveraging runtime data, Upwind Security empowers organizations to secure their cloud infrastructure effectively.

Trail Security

Series A in 2024
Trail Security is an intelligent data protection platform that builds solutions for data loss prevention. The company focuses on artificial intelligence-driven solutions for safeguarding sensitive data across various environments, including cloud, endpoint, and network systems. It utilizes real-time monitoring and automated classification to detect, block, and remediate potential data breaches, aiming to prevent unauthorized data sharing or accidental exposure. It also integrates machine learning models to identify user behavior anomalies, helping organizations to protect data at rest, in use, and transit, all while providing real-time insights into how data was accessed and shared. Trail Security operates in stealth mode.

Zafran Security

Series B in 2024
The Zafran Threat Exposure Management Platform is the first and only consolidated platform that integrates with your security tools to reveal, remediate, and mitigate the risk of exposures across your entire infrastructure. Zafran uses an agentless approach to reveal what is truly exploitable, while reducing manual prioritization and remediation through automated response workflows.

Dazz

Venture Round in 2024
Dazz provides a unified remediation platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of security and development teams. This SaaS solution quickly identifies vulnerabilities and prioritizes issues, allowing organizations to manage cybersecurity challenges from a single platform. By streamlining the remediation process, Dazz significantly reduces the time required to address security risks, transforming weeks of remediation work into mere hours. This not only enables cybersecurity teams to adopt a more strategic approach to their security posture but also allows developers to focus on innovation rather than spending excessive time on fixing vulnerabilities. The platform is particularly effective in protecting cloud and development environments, replacing traditional manual processes with a more integrated and automated solution.

Wiz

Series E in 2024
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing a platform that enables enterprises to identify and address security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Its innovative solution offers a comprehensive view of security risks across various environments, including clouds, containers, and workloads. By utilizing a cloud-native visibility approach, Wiz delivers detailed risk assessments and root cause analyses through an agentless system, allowing security teams to gain actionable insights and effectively manage their cloud security posture.

Oasis Security

Series A in 2024
Oasis Security specializes in non-human identity management technology designed to enhance visibility and risk assessment while automating vulnerability remediation. The company offers a platform that simplifies secret management compliance and automatically identifies non-human identities, helping clients strengthen their security posture and enforce robust governance. By streamlining these processes, Oasis enables organizations to effectively tackle security challenges and bolster their cybersecurity defenses without introducing operational complexity.

Cyera

Series C in 2024
Cyera is a data security company focused on enhancing the protection of sensitive information within organizations. The company provides a platform that automatically discovers and classifies data, ensuring that businesses have a clear understanding of their data landscape and the associated risks. By applying continuous controls, Cyera enables organizations to manage exposure effectively and maintain compliance while fostering a resilient security posture. This data-centric approach empowers security teams to quickly identify vulnerabilities and take immediate action to remediate potential threats. With support from prominent investors, Cyera aims to redefine data security practices for businesses operating in the cloud, helping them achieve transformative outcomes through effective data management.

Zafran Security

Series A in 2024
The Zafran Threat Exposure Management Platform is the first and only consolidated platform that integrates with your security tools to reveal, remediate, and mitigate the risk of exposures across your entire infrastructure. Zafran uses an agentless approach to reveal what is truly exploitable, while reducing manual prioritization and remediation through automated response workflows.

Oasis Security

Seed Round in 2024
Oasis Security specializes in non-human identity management technology designed to enhance visibility and risk assessment while automating vulnerability remediation. The company offers a platform that simplifies secret management compliance and automatically identifies non-human identities, helping clients strengthen their security posture and enforce robust governance. By streamlining these processes, Oasis enables organizations to effectively tackle security challenges and bolster their cybersecurity defenses without introducing operational complexity.

Vega Security

Seed Round in 2024
Vega Security offers cybersecurity services for cyberattack detection.

Blockaid

Series A in 2023
Blockaid enable builders to protect users from fraud, phishing and hacks.

Island

Series C in 2023
Island is a cybersecurity startup that specializes in developing an enterprise browser aimed at enhancing productivity while ensuring security. Its platform enables organizations to maintain comprehensive control, visibility, and governance over their online activities, thereby improving overall performance. By focusing on the last mile of cybersecurity, Island helps businesses reduce their cyber footprint and fosters a safe environment for work processes. The solution is designed to balance the need for operational efficiency with robust security measures, ultimately facilitating a seamless workflow for enterprises.

Legit Security

Series B in 2023
Legit Security is a provider of enterprise-grade cybersecurity software solutions focused on helping organizations develop secure software efficiently. The company offers an application security posture management (ASPM) solution that secures applications during the development phase, ensuring they are designed to be vulnerability-free. Legit's platform delivers an automated overview of application risks, encompassing code, cloud, and supply chain vulnerabilities, and integrates data from various security tools. This enables teams to prioritize and address critical issues effectively, facilitating the creation of a "secure software factory" that prevents future defects. Additionally, Legit aids organizations in maintaining compliance with various frameworks requiring secure development practices, such as SSDF, FedRamp, DORA, CRA, and PCI/DSS, allowing businesses to innovate rapidly while ensuring software security.

Upwind Security

Series A in 2023
Upwind Security is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting organizations' digital assets and enhancing internet security. The company develops tools that identify potential threats to data integrity and offers security measures that support compliance with industry standards. By managing risks and leveraging runtime data, Upwind Security empowers organizations to secure their cloud infrastructure effectively.

Trustmi

Series A in 2023
Trustmi is a provider of an end-to-end payment security platform aimed at safeguarding organizations' financial assets from various threats, including cyberattacks, internal collusion, and human errors. The platform features a trusted network that employs advanced multi-layer technology, incorporating self-learning and crowdsourcing innovations. This approach empowers security and finance teams by offering comprehensive visibility and control over the payment process, effectively mitigating the risks of payment fraud. Trustmi’s solution reduces the reliance on manual controls, minimizes human error, and integrates smoothly with existing payment systems, ensuring that business operations remain uninterrupted while enhancing overall payment security.

Savvy

Series A in 2023
Savvy is a software development company that engages in cybersecurity.

Cyera

Series B in 2023
Cyera is a data security company focused on enhancing the protection of sensitive information within organizations. The company provides a platform that automatically discovers and classifies data, ensuring that businesses have a clear understanding of their data landscape and the associated risks. By applying continuous controls, Cyera enables organizations to manage exposure effectively and maintain compliance while fostering a resilient security posture. This data-centric approach empowers security teams to quickly identify vulnerabilities and take immediate action to remediate potential threats. With support from prominent investors, Cyera aims to redefine data security practices for businesses operating in the cloud, helping them achieve transformative outcomes through effective data management.

Wiz

Series D in 2023
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing a platform that enables enterprises to identify and address security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Its innovative solution offers a comprehensive view of security risks across various environments, including clouds, containers, and workloads. By utilizing a cloud-native visibility approach, Wiz delivers detailed risk assessments and root cause analyses through an agentless system, allowing security teams to gain actionable insights and effectively manage their cloud security posture.

Cyera

Series A in 2022
Cyera is a data security company focused on enhancing the protection of sensitive information within organizations. The company provides a platform that automatically discovers and classifies data, ensuring that businesses have a clear understanding of their data landscape and the associated risks. By applying continuous controls, Cyera enables organizations to manage exposure effectively and maintain compliance while fostering a resilient security posture. This data-centric approach empowers security teams to quickly identify vulnerabilities and take immediate action to remediate potential threats. With support from prominent investors, Cyera aims to redefine data security practices for businesses operating in the cloud, helping them achieve transformative outcomes through effective data management.

Bionic

Series B in 2022
Bionic, Inc. is an application intelligence company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019. It operates as an Application Security Posture Management platform that focuses on reducing security, data privacy, and operational risks associated with applications. Bionic achieves this by continuously analyzing the entire architecture of applications as they evolve in production, offering deep visibility into the application layer. The company's products include a comprehensive asset inventory, dependency and data flow mapping, and solutions for compliance, security review, and cloud modernization. By providing insights into services, APIs, dependencies, and data flows, Bionic helps organizations effectively manage their application risks.

Island

Series A in 2022
Island is a cybersecurity startup that specializes in developing an enterprise browser aimed at enhancing productivity while ensuring security. Its platform enables organizations to maintain comprehensive control, visibility, and governance over their online activities, thereby improving overall performance. By focusing on the last mile of cybersecurity, Island helps businesses reduce their cyber footprint and fosters a safe environment for work processes. The solution is designed to balance the need for operational efficiency with robust security measures, ultimately facilitating a seamless workflow for enterprises.

Avalor

Seed Round in 2022
Avalor is a developer of a data security platform that serves as a comprehensive source of truth for various cybersecurity elements, including assets, controls, identities, vulnerabilities, and bugs. The platform is designed to manage data from any source, offering tools for vulnerability risk management and prioritization. Its scalable architecture allows security teams to effectively aggregate, normalize, de-duplicate, and monitor risk data throughout the entire process, from discovery to remediation. This focus on robust data handling and risk management positions Avalor as a key player in enhancing cybersecurity efforts.

Noname Security

Series C in 2021
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and based in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in providing security solutions specifically designed to protect application programming interfaces (APIs) from various threats, including data leakage, authorization issues, and misuse. The company's platform enables enterprises to gain visibility and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs without the need for agents or network modifications. Noname Security's offerings include real-time protection, vulnerability detection, and misconfiguration identification, which enhance security beyond traditional methods such as API gateways and load balancers. By focusing on comprehensive API security, Noname Security aims to address the growing concerns surrounding data integrity and application security in modern digital environments.

Dazz

Series A in 2021
Dazz provides a unified remediation platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of security and development teams. This SaaS solution quickly identifies vulnerabilities and prioritizes issues, allowing organizations to manage cybersecurity challenges from a single platform. By streamlining the remediation process, Dazz significantly reduces the time required to address security risks, transforming weeks of remediation work into mere hours. This not only enables cybersecurity teams to adopt a more strategic approach to their security posture but also allows developers to focus on innovation rather than spending excessive time on fixing vulnerabilities. The platform is particularly effective in protecting cloud and development environments, replacing traditional manual processes with a more integrated and automated solution.

Wiz

Series C in 2021
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing a platform that enables enterprises to identify and address security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Its innovative solution offers a comprehensive view of security risks across various environments, including clouds, containers, and workloads. By utilizing a cloud-native visibility approach, Wiz delivers detailed risk assessments and root cause analyses through an agentless system, allowing security teams to gain actionable insights and effectively manage their cloud security posture.

Savvy

Seed Round in 2021
Savvy is a software development company that engages in cybersecurity.

Noname Security

Series B in 2021
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and based in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in providing security solutions specifically designed to protect application programming interfaces (APIs) from various threats, including data leakage, authorization issues, and misuse. The company's platform enables enterprises to gain visibility and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs without the need for agents or network modifications. Noname Security's offerings include real-time protection, vulnerability detection, and misconfiguration identification, which enhance security beyond traditional methods such as API gateways and load balancers. By focusing on comprehensive API security, Noname Security aims to address the growing concerns surrounding data integrity and application security in modern digital environments.

Transmit Security

Series A in 2021
Transmit Security is a provider of a digital identity platform that delivers advanced security services aimed at enhancing customer experiences while safeguarding against fraud. The company's CIAM platform enables businesses to implement passwordless authentication through technologies such as face detection, along with identity policy orchestration and passwordless workforce authentication. By focusing on customer experience and cybersecurity, Transmit Security assists organizations, including major banks, insurers, and retailers, in creating secure and seamless digital identity journeys. The platform supports a wide range of industries, collectively managing over $2 trillion in annual commerce.

Axis Security

Series C in 2021
Axis Security Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2018 and based in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in providing Zero Trust Network Access solutions, focusing on secure remote access to applications. The company's platform employs application isolation technology and a context-aware security approach, evaluating various factors to ensure that only authorized users can access specific resources within a network. This allows organizations to maintain control over sensitive information while enabling access for employees, partners, and other stakeholders. Through its cloud security and analytics solutions, Axis Security aims to enhance data protection and streamline secure access to business applications.

Fireblocks

Series C in 2021
Fireblocks Inc. is a blockchain-based security service platform that provides a secure solution for managing digital asset operations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, with an additional location in Tel Aviv, Fireblocks specializes in protecting the transmission of digital assets between exchanges, wallets, and counterparties. The platform is designed for financial institutions, including banks, fintech companies, exchanges, liquidity providers, over-the-counter brokers, and hedge funds, allowing them to securely manage their digital assets. Fireblocks employs advanced technologies such as patent-pending chip isolation security and multi-party computation (MPC) to ensure the safe transfer and availability of assets across various environments.

Wiz

Series B in 2021
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing a platform that enables enterprises to identify and address security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Its innovative solution offers a comprehensive view of security risks across various environments, including clouds, containers, and workloads. By utilizing a cloud-native visibility approach, Wiz delivers detailed risk assessments and root cause analyses through an agentless system, allowing security teams to gain actionable insights and effectively manage their cloud security posture.

Trustmi

Seed Round in 2021
Trustmi is a provider of an end-to-end payment security platform aimed at safeguarding organizations' financial assets from various threats, including cyberattacks, internal collusion, and human errors. The platform features a trusted network that employs advanced multi-layer technology, incorporating self-learning and crowdsourcing innovations. This approach empowers security and finance teams by offering comprehensive visibility and control over the payment process, effectively mitigating the risks of payment fraud. Trustmi’s solution reduces the reliance on manual controls, minimizes human error, and integrates smoothly with existing payment systems, ensuring that business operations remain uninterrupted while enhancing overall payment security.

Cyera

Seed Round in 2020
Cyera is a data security company focused on enhancing the protection of sensitive information within organizations. The company provides a platform that automatically discovers and classifies data, ensuring that businesses have a clear understanding of their data landscape and the associated risks. By applying continuous controls, Cyera enables organizations to manage exposure effectively and maintain compliance while fostering a resilient security posture. This data-centric approach empowers security teams to quickly identify vulnerabilities and take immediate action to remediate potential threats. With support from prominent investors, Cyera aims to redefine data security practices for businesses operating in the cloud, helping them achieve transformative outcomes through effective data management.

Noname Security

Series A in 2020
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and based in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in providing security solutions specifically designed to protect application programming interfaces (APIs) from various threats, including data leakage, authorization issues, and misuse. The company's platform enables enterprises to gain visibility and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs without the need for agents or network modifications. Noname Security's offerings include real-time protection, vulnerability detection, and misconfiguration identification, which enhance security beyond traditional methods such as API gateways and load balancers. By focusing on comprehensive API security, Noname Security aims to address the growing concerns surrounding data integrity and application security in modern digital environments.

Bionic

Series A in 2020
Bionic, Inc. is an application intelligence company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019. It operates as an Application Security Posture Management platform that focuses on reducing security, data privacy, and operational risks associated with applications. Bionic achieves this by continuously analyzing the entire architecture of applications as they evolve in production, offering deep visibility into the application layer. The company's products include a comprehensive asset inventory, dependency and data flow mapping, and solutions for compliance, security review, and cloud modernization. By providing insights into services, APIs, dependencies, and data flows, Bionic helps organizations effectively manage their application risks.

Wiz

Series A in 2020
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing a platform that enables enterprises to identify and address security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Its innovative solution offers a comprehensive view of security risks across various environments, including clouds, containers, and workloads. By utilizing a cloud-native visibility approach, Wiz delivers detailed risk assessments and root cause analyses through an agentless system, allowing security teams to gain actionable insights and effectively manage their cloud security posture.

Fireblocks

Series B in 2020
Fireblocks Inc. is a blockchain-based security service platform that provides a secure solution for managing digital asset operations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, with an additional location in Tel Aviv, Fireblocks specializes in protecting the transmission of digital assets between exchanges, wallets, and counterparties. The platform is designed for financial institutions, including banks, fintech companies, exchanges, liquidity providers, over-the-counter brokers, and hedge funds, allowing them to securely manage their digital assets. Fireblocks employs advanced technologies such as patent-pending chip isolation security and multi-party computation (MPC) to ensure the safe transfer and availability of assets across various environments.

Axis Security

Series B in 2020
Axis Security Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2018 and based in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in providing Zero Trust Network Access solutions, focusing on secure remote access to applications. The company's platform employs application isolation technology and a context-aware security approach, evaluating various factors to ensure that only authorized users can access specific resources within a network. This allows organizations to maintain control over sensitive information while enabling access for employees, partners, and other stakeholders. Through its cloud security and analytics solutions, Axis Security aims to enhance data protection and streamline secure access to business applications.

Legit Security

Seed Round in 2020
Legit Security is a provider of enterprise-grade cybersecurity software solutions focused on helping organizations develop secure software efficiently. The company offers an application security posture management (ASPM) solution that secures applications during the development phase, ensuring they are designed to be vulnerability-free. Legit's platform delivers an automated overview of application risks, encompassing code, cloud, and supply chain vulnerabilities, and integrates data from various security tools. This enables teams to prioritize and address critical issues effectively, facilitating the creation of a "secure software factory" that prevents future defects. Additionally, Legit aids organizations in maintaining compliance with various frameworks requiring secure development practices, such as SSDF, FedRamp, DORA, CRA, and PCI/DSS, allowing businesses to innovate rapidly while ensuring software security.

Island

Seed Round in 2020
Island is a cybersecurity startup that specializes in developing an enterprise browser aimed at enhancing productivity while ensuring security. Its platform enables organizations to maintain comprehensive control, visibility, and governance over their online activities, thereby improving overall performance. By focusing on the last mile of cybersecurity, Island helps businesses reduce their cyber footprint and fosters a safe environment for work processes. The solution is designed to balance the need for operational efficiency with robust security measures, ultimately facilitating a seamless workflow for enterprises.

Axis Security

Series A in 2020
Axis Security Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2018 and based in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in providing Zero Trust Network Access solutions, focusing on secure remote access to applications. The company's platform employs application isolation technology and a context-aware security approach, evaluating various factors to ensure that only authorized users can access specific resources within a network. This allows organizations to maintain control over sensitive information while enabling access for employees, partners, and other stakeholders. Through its cloud security and analytics solutions, Axis Security aims to enhance data protection and streamline secure access to business applications.

Axis Security

Seed Round in 2020
Axis Security Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2018 and based in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in providing Zero Trust Network Access solutions, focusing on secure remote access to applications. The company's platform employs application isolation technology and a context-aware security approach, evaluating various factors to ensure that only authorized users can access specific resources within a network. This allows organizations to maintain control over sensitive information while enabling access for employees, partners, and other stakeholders. Through its cloud security and analytics solutions, Axis Security aims to enhance data protection and streamline secure access to business applications.

Beyond (Israel)

Venture Round in 2020
Beyond (Israel) is an anew cyber-security company.

Trustdome

Seed Round in 2019
Trustdome is a computer and network company that specializes in cybersecurity. It helps businesses, startups, and organizations protect their database and confidential data from malware, hackers, and other secutirty issues. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Fireblocks

Series A in 2019
Fireblocks Inc. is a blockchain-based security service platform that provides a secure solution for managing digital asset operations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, with an additional location in Tel Aviv, Fireblocks specializes in protecting the transmission of digital assets between exchanges, wallets, and counterparties. The platform is designed for financial institutions, including banks, fintech companies, exchanges, liquidity providers, over-the-counter brokers, and hedge funds, allowing them to securely manage their digital assets. Fireblocks employs advanced technologies such as patent-pending chip isolation security and multi-party computation (MPC) to ensure the safe transfer and availability of assets across various environments.

Bionic

Seed Round in 2019
Bionic, Inc. is an application intelligence company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019. It operates as an Application Security Posture Management platform that focuses on reducing security, data privacy, and operational risks associated with applications. Bionic achieves this by continuously analyzing the entire architecture of applications as they evolve in production, offering deep visibility into the application layer. The company's products include a comprehensive asset inventory, dependency and data flow mapping, and solutions for compliance, security review, and cloud modernization. By providing insights into services, APIs, dependencies, and data flows, Bionic helps organizations effectively manage their application risks.
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