Cyberstarts

CyberStarts is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Mikhmoret, Israel, specializing in early-stage investments within the cybersecurity sector. It operates two primary funds: the Cyberstarts Opportunity Fund and Cyberstarts Venture Fund II, both focused on addressing significant challenges in cybersecurity. Uniquely, CyberStarts is primarily financed by entrepreneurs within the cybersecurity domain, fostering a community of shared experience and knowledge. The firm not only invests in emerging companies but also emphasizes supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs by giving back to the industry.

Gili Raanan

Founder

48 past transactions

Island

Series E in 2025
Island is a cybersecurity company that specializes in enterprise browser solutions. It offers a web browser tailored for businesses, enabling secure and efficient work environments. Island's platform provides organizations with comprehensive control, visibility, and governance over their online activities, enhancing performance and minimizing cybersecurity risks. The company fosters a collaborative work culture, valuing integrity, quality, and honesty in its interactions with clients.

Blockaid

Series B in 2025
Blockaid is a technology company that specializes in digital security. It develops a security platform designed to safeguard users from fraud, phishing, and hacks. The company employs a range of security features, including blockchain technology, to ensure the safety and security of users' data. This enables online businesses to offer their services with confidence, knowing that their customers' data is protected.

Upwind Security

Series A in 2024
Upwind Security develops cybersecurity tools to protect organizations' digital assets. It identifies potential threats, implements security measures, and supports compliance.

Trail Security

Series A in 2024
Trail Security, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in data loss prevention. It offers an AI-driven platform that safeguards sensitive data across cloud, endpoint, and network systems. The company employs real-time monitoring, automated classification, and machine learning to detect, block, and remediate potential data breaches, and to identify unusual user behavior. It provides real-time insights into data access and sharing, protecting data at rest, in use, and transit. Currently, Trail Security operates in stealth mode.

Zafran

Series B in 2024
Zafran is a technology company that specializes in threat exposure management. Its platform integrates with existing security tools to identify, mitigate, and remediate vulnerabilities across an organization's entire infrastructure. Notably, Zafran employs an agentless approach, which means it can reveal exploitable weaknesses without the need for additional software installation. This method also reduces manual prioritization and speeds up remediation through automated response workflows.

Dazz

Venture Round in 2024
Dazz specializes in unified remediation for cybersecurity teams and developers. Its platform swiftly identifies security blind spots, prioritizes issues, and facilitates fixes within a developer-friendly workflow, reducing risk windows significantly. This enables cybersecurity teams to adopt strategic approaches and allows developers to focus more on innovation.

Wiz

Series E in 2024
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing enterprises with a platform that enables them to identify security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Wiz's innovative solution offers a comprehensive, cloud-native visibility tool that analyzes the entire cloud environment, delivering a 360-degree view of security risks across various platforms, including clouds, containers, and workloads. The platform utilizes actionable, graph-based analysis to facilitate in-depth risk assessment and root cause analysis without the need for agents, allowing organizations to enhance their security posture effectively.

Oasis Security

Series A in 2024
Oasis Security is a technology developer specializing in non-human identity management solutions. Its platform focuses on providing enhanced visibility and risk assessment while incorporating vulnerability auto-remediation features. By simplifying secret management compliance, Oasis enables organizations to automatically detect and manage non-human identities, thereby improving their security posture. The company's approach allows clients to implement robust governance measures without the burden of operational complexity, effectively addressing security challenges and reinforcing their overall cybersecurity defenses.

Cyera

Series C in 2024
Cyera is a technology company specializing in data security. It provides businesses with comprehensive insights into their data landscape, applying continuous controls to ensure cyber-resilience and compliance. Backed by prominent investors, Cyera empowers security teams to identify and mitigate data risks across cloud environments.

Zafran

Series A in 2024
Zafran is a technology company that specializes in threat exposure management. Its platform integrates with existing security tools to identify, mitigate, and remediate vulnerabilities across an organization's entire infrastructure. Notably, Zafran employs an agentless approach, which means it can reveal exploitable weaknesses without the need for additional software installation. This method also reduces manual prioritization and speeds up remediation through automated response workflows.

Oasis Security

Seed Round in 2024
Oasis Security is a technology developer specializing in non-human identity management solutions. Its platform focuses on providing enhanced visibility and risk assessment while incorporating vulnerability auto-remediation features. By simplifying secret management compliance, Oasis enables organizations to automatically detect and manage non-human identities, thereby improving their security posture. The company's approach allows clients to implement robust governance measures without the burden of operational complexity, effectively addressing security challenges and reinforcing their overall cybersecurity defenses.

Vega Security

Seed Round in 2024
Vega Security is a cybersecurity firm specializing in detecting cyberattacks. Operating discreetly, it offers services to help businesses identify and respond to potential threats in their digital environments.

Blockaid

Series A in 2023
Blockaid is a technology company that specializes in digital security. It develops a security platform designed to safeguard users from fraud, phishing, and hacks. The company employs a range of security features, including blockchain technology, to ensure the safety and security of users' data. This enables online businesses to offer their services with confidence, knowing that their customers' data is protected.

Island

Series C in 2023
Island is a cybersecurity company that specializes in enterprise browser solutions. It offers a web browser tailored for businesses, enabling secure and efficient work environments. Island's platform provides organizations with comprehensive control, visibility, and governance over their online activities, enhancing performance and minimizing cybersecurity risks. The company fosters a collaborative work culture, valuing integrity, quality, and honesty in its interactions with clients.

Legit Security

Series B in 2023
Legit Security offers an enterprise-grade software platform that helps organizations build secure software at speed, providing an application security posture management platform that aggregates signals from code, cloud, and supply chain security tools (SAST, DAST, CSPM) to deliver an automated view of application risk and enable teams to prioritize and remediate the most critical issues, supporting a secure software factory approach from design to release to reduce vulnerabilities and prevent supply-chain attacks, helping organizations maintain secure-by-design practices, achieve compliance across frameworks such as SSDF, FedRAMP, DORA, CRA, and PCI DSS, and scale security programs across complex environments, and minimizing vulnerabilities while enabling rapid yet safe software delivery to align security with fast-paced development.

Upwind Security

Series A in 2023
Upwind Security develops cybersecurity tools to protect organizations' digital assets. It identifies potential threats, implements security measures, and supports compliance.

Trustmi

Series A in 2023
Trustmi is a developer of an end-to-end payment security platform that helps organizations safeguard their financial assets from threats such as cyberattacks, internal collusion, and human errors. The company’s platform utilizes a trusted network supported by advanced layered technology, which incorporates self-learning and crowdsourcing innovations. This enables security and finance teams to gain comprehensive visibility and control over their payment processes. By eliminating payment fraud risks and minimizing manual controls, Trustmi enhances operational efficiency and reduces human error, all while seamlessly integrating with the existing payment infrastructure of organizations without causing business interruptions.

Savvy

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

Cyera

Series B in 2023
Cyera is a technology company specializing in data security. It provides businesses with comprehensive insights into their data landscape, applying continuous controls to ensure cyber-resilience and compliance. Backed by prominent investors, Cyera empowers security teams to identify and mitigate data risks across cloud environments.

Wiz

Series D in 2023
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing enterprises with a platform that enables them to identify security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Wiz's innovative solution offers a comprehensive, cloud-native visibility tool that analyzes the entire cloud environment, delivering a 360-degree view of security risks across various platforms, including clouds, containers, and workloads. The platform utilizes actionable, graph-based analysis to facilitate in-depth risk assessment and root cause analysis without the need for agents, allowing organizations to enhance their security posture effectively.

Cyera

Series A in 2022
Cyera is a technology company specializing in data security. It provides businesses with comprehensive insights into their data landscape, applying continuous controls to ensure cyber-resilience and compliance. Backed by prominent investors, Cyera empowers security teams to identify and mitigate data risks across cloud environments.

Bionic

Series B in 2022
Bionic, Inc. is an application intelligence company founded in 2019 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), focusing on the proactive reduction of security, data privacy, and operational risks associated with applications. Bionic offers a range of products, including comprehensive asset inventory, dependency and data flow mapping, and continuous control mechanisms, providing organizations with deep visibility into their application architecture as it evolves. This enables businesses to effectively manage risks related to services, APIs, dependencies, and data flows in production. Additionally, Bionic’s solutions support compliance and security reviews, as well as cloud modernization efforts, making it a valuable partner for organizations seeking to enhance their application security and operational resilience.

Island

Series A in 2022
Island is a cybersecurity company that specializes in enterprise browser solutions. It offers a web browser tailored for businesses, enabling secure and efficient work environments. Island's platform provides organizations with comprehensive control, visibility, and governance over their online activities, enhancing performance and minimizing cybersecurity risks. The company fosters a collaborative work culture, valuing integrity, quality, and honesty in its interactions with clients.

Avalor

Seed Round in 2022
Avalor is a developer of a data security platform specifically designed to serve as a source of truth for various cybersecurity elements, including assets, controls, identities, vulnerabilities, and bugs. The platform is capable of managing data from diverse sources and offers 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 lifecycle, from discovery to remediation. Avalor's solutions aim to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of cybersecurity operations, helping organizations manage their security risks more comprehensively.

Noname Security

Series C in 2021
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling enterprises to manage and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs. Noname Security's platform offers real-time protection against data leakage, authorization issues, abuse, misuse, and data corruption, all without the need for agents or modifications to existing networks. The solutions include capabilities for detection, prevention, discovery, and classification, providing deeper visibility and robust security compared to traditional API gateways and load balancers.

Dazz

Series A in 2021
Dazz specializes in unified remediation for cybersecurity teams and developers. Its platform swiftly identifies security blind spots, prioritizes issues, and facilitates fixes within a developer-friendly workflow, reducing risk windows significantly. This enables cybersecurity teams to adopt strategic approaches and allows developers to focus more on innovation.

Wiz

Series C in 2021
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing enterprises with a platform that enables them to identify security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Wiz's innovative solution offers a comprehensive, cloud-native visibility tool that analyzes the entire cloud environment, delivering a 360-degree view of security risks across various platforms, including clouds, containers, and workloads. The platform utilizes actionable, graph-based analysis to facilitate in-depth risk assessment and root cause analysis without the need for agents, allowing organizations to enhance their security posture effectively.

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. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling enterprises to manage and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs. Noname Security's platform offers real-time protection against data leakage, authorization issues, abuse, misuse, and data corruption, all without the need for agents or modifications to existing networks. The solutions include capabilities for detection, prevention, discovery, and classification, providing deeper visibility and robust security compared to traditional API gateways and load balancers.

Transmit Security

Series A in 2021
Transmit Security is a developer of a digital identity platform that offers advanced security services aimed at enhancing customer experiences while safeguarding against fraud. The company's solutions include passwordless authentication through face detection and identity policy orchestration, allowing organizations to streamline access for both customers and employees. Focused on customer experience and cybersecurity, Transmit Security's platform is utilized by many of the world's largest banks, insurers, and retailers, supporting clients responsible for over $2 trillion in annual commerce. This positions Transmit Security as a key player in the digital identity landscape, providing businesses with the tools necessary to innovate and grow securely.

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 Zero Trust Network Access solutions, providing a cloud security platform that ensures secure remote access to applications. The company's technology focuses on application isolation and employs a context-aware approach to security, evaluating multiple factors to ensure that only authorized users can access specific resources within a network. This business-centric strategy allows organizations to maintain control over sensitive information and manage access for employees, partners, and other stakeholders effectively.

Fireblocks

Series C in 2021
Fireblocks develops a blockchain-based platform focused on securely managing and transferring digital assets between exchanges, wallets, custodians, and counterparties. It caters to various financial institutions, including banks, fintech companies, hedge funds, and liquidity providers.

Wiz

Series B in 2021
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing enterprises with a platform that enables them to identify security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Wiz's innovative solution offers a comprehensive, cloud-native visibility tool that analyzes the entire cloud environment, delivering a 360-degree view of security risks across various platforms, including clouds, containers, and workloads. The platform utilizes actionable, graph-based analysis to facilitate in-depth risk assessment and root cause analysis without the need for agents, allowing organizations to enhance their security posture effectively.

Trustmi

Seed Round in 2021
Trustmi is a developer of an end-to-end payment security platform that helps organizations safeguard their financial assets from threats such as cyberattacks, internal collusion, and human errors. The company’s platform utilizes a trusted network supported by advanced layered technology, which incorporates self-learning and crowdsourcing innovations. This enables security and finance teams to gain comprehensive visibility and control over their payment processes. By eliminating payment fraud risks and minimizing manual controls, Trustmi enhances operational efficiency and reduces human error, all while seamlessly integrating with the existing payment infrastructure of organizations without causing business interruptions.

Cyera

Seed Round in 2020
Cyera is a technology company specializing in data security. It provides businesses with comprehensive insights into their data landscape, applying continuous controls to ensure cyber-resilience and compliance. Backed by prominent investors, Cyera empowers security teams to identify and mitigate data risks across cloud environments.

Noname Security

Series A in 2020
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling enterprises to manage and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs. Noname Security's platform offers real-time protection against data leakage, authorization issues, abuse, misuse, and data corruption, all without the need for agents or modifications to existing networks. The solutions include capabilities for detection, prevention, discovery, and classification, providing deeper visibility and robust security compared to traditional API gateways and load balancers.

Bionic

Series A in 2020
Bionic, Inc. is an application intelligence company founded in 2019 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), focusing on the proactive reduction of security, data privacy, and operational risks associated with applications. Bionic offers a range of products, including comprehensive asset inventory, dependency and data flow mapping, and continuous control mechanisms, providing organizations with deep visibility into their application architecture as it evolves. This enables businesses to effectively manage risks related to services, APIs, dependencies, and data flows in production. Additionally, Bionic’s solutions support compliance and security reviews, as well as cloud modernization efforts, making it a valuable partner for organizations seeking to enhance their application security and operational resilience.

Wiz

Series A in 2020
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing enterprises with a platform that enables them to identify security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Wiz's innovative solution offers a comprehensive, cloud-native visibility tool that analyzes the entire cloud environment, delivering a 360-degree view of security risks across various platforms, including clouds, containers, and workloads. The platform utilizes actionable, graph-based analysis to facilitate in-depth risk assessment and root cause analysis without the need for agents, allowing organizations to enhance their security posture effectively.

Fireblocks

Series B in 2020
Fireblocks develops a blockchain-based platform focused on securely managing and transferring digital assets between exchanges, wallets, custodians, and counterparties. It caters to various financial institutions, including banks, fintech companies, hedge funds, and liquidity providers.

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 Zero Trust Network Access solutions, providing a cloud security platform that ensures secure remote access to applications. The company's technology focuses on application isolation and employs a context-aware approach to security, evaluating multiple factors to ensure that only authorized users can access specific resources within a network. This business-centric strategy allows organizations to maintain control over sensitive information and manage access for employees, partners, and other stakeholders effectively.

Legit Security

Seed Round in 2020
Legit Security offers an enterprise-grade software platform that helps organizations build secure software at speed, providing an application security posture management platform that aggregates signals from code, cloud, and supply chain security tools (SAST, DAST, CSPM) to deliver an automated view of application risk and enable teams to prioritize and remediate the most critical issues, supporting a secure software factory approach from design to release to reduce vulnerabilities and prevent supply-chain attacks, helping organizations maintain secure-by-design practices, achieve compliance across frameworks such as SSDF, FedRAMP, DORA, CRA, and PCI DSS, and scale security programs across complex environments, and minimizing vulnerabilities while enabling rapid yet safe software delivery to align security with fast-paced development.

Island

Seed Round in 2020
Island is a cybersecurity company that specializes in enterprise browser solutions. It offers a web browser tailored for businesses, enabling secure and efficient work environments. Island's platform provides organizations with comprehensive control, visibility, and governance over their online activities, enhancing performance and minimizing cybersecurity risks. The company fosters a collaborative work culture, valuing integrity, quality, and honesty in its interactions with clients.

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 Zero Trust Network Access solutions, providing a cloud security platform that ensures secure remote access to applications. The company's technology focuses on application isolation and employs a context-aware approach to security, evaluating multiple factors to ensure that only authorized users can access specific resources within a network. This business-centric strategy allows organizations to maintain control over sensitive information and manage access for employees, partners, and other stakeholders effectively.

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 Zero Trust Network Access solutions, providing a cloud security platform that ensures secure remote access to applications. The company's technology focuses on application isolation and employs a context-aware approach to security, evaluating multiple factors to ensure that only authorized users can access specific resources within a network. This business-centric strategy allows organizations to maintain control over sensitive information and manage access for employees, partners, and other stakeholders effectively.

Beyond (Israel)

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

Trustdome

Seed Round in 2019
Trustdome is a cybersecurity company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. It specializes in protecting businesses, startups, and organizations from various security threats, including malware and hacking attempts. Trustdome has developed a cloud infrastructure entitlement platform that aims to reduce vulnerabilities in public cloud environments while enhancing overall security posture. The company's offerings include a cloud protection portfolio that enforces least privilege principles across multi-cloud setups, allowing developers to innovate securely. Trustdome emphasizes comprehensive governance by controlling access to data, applications, and services in public cloud environments, thereby safeguarding confidential information and supporting organizations in maintaining robust security measures.

Fireblocks

Series A in 2019
Fireblocks develops a blockchain-based platform focused on securely managing and transferring digital assets between exchanges, wallets, custodians, and counterparties. It caters to various financial institutions, including banks, fintech companies, hedge funds, and liquidity providers.

Bionic

Seed Round in 2019
Bionic, Inc. is an application intelligence company founded in 2019 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), focusing on the proactive reduction of security, data privacy, and operational risks associated with applications. Bionic offers a range of products, including comprehensive asset inventory, dependency and data flow mapping, and continuous control mechanisms, providing organizations with deep visibility into their application architecture as it evolves. This enables businesses to effectively manage risks related to services, APIs, dependencies, and data flows in production. Additionally, Bionic’s solutions support compliance and security reviews, as well as cloud modernization efforts, making it a valuable partner for organizations seeking to enhance their application security and operational resilience.
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