Cyberstarts

Cyberstarts is a venture capital firm based in Mikhmoret, Israel, founded in 2018. It primarily focuses on the cybersecurity and information technology sectors, seeking to invest in and build companies that address significant challenges in cybersecurity. Uniquely, Cyberstarts is largely financed by entrepreneurs from the same domain, fostering a community-oriented approach that aims to support and mentor the next generation of entrepreneurs. The firm manages multiple early-stage venture capital funds, including the Cyberstarts Opportunity Fund and Cyberstarts Venture Fund II, both targeting investments within Israel's cybersecurity landscape.

Jason Clark

Chairman of the CISO Advisory board

Gili Raanan

Founder

Past deals in Cyber Security

Cyera

Series A in 2022
Cyera is the next generation data security platform that empowers security teams to manage and protect all of their company’s sensitive data. The platform provides visibility and insight into your data, identities, and access, and delivers actionable guidance to remediate threats stemming from exposure, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations. The most common use cases include incident response - detecting data exposures and suspicious data access - and attack surface minimization - enforcing least privileged access and removing unnecessary data. Cyera was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in San Mateo, USA.

Bionic

Series B in 2022
Bionic, Inc. is an application intelligence company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019. The company provides a platform designed to help enterprises manage the complexities arising from the rapid deployment of new and updated applications. Bionic’s agentless platform enables organizations to efficiently handle application management, security, and compliance, offering tools such as comprehensive asset inventory, dependency and dataflow mapping, and continuous control. By streamlining these processes, Bionic allows teams to achieve results in minutes that previously took months, thereby enhancing operational effectiveness and security in application management.

Noname Security

Series C in 2021
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2020. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), focusing on protecting against data leakage, authorization issues, and other vulnerabilities. Its agentless platform enables enterprises to discover, classify, and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs in real-time without requiring modifications to the network or the installation of agents. Noname Security's offerings include comprehensive detection and prevention capabilities, delivering greater visibility and security than traditional API gateways and load balancers.

Dazz

Series A in 2021
Dazz is a cloud security repair service that takes a unique approach to cybersecurity.

Wiz

Series C in 2021
Wiz, Inc. is a cloud security company that designs and develops a comprehensive platform to help enterprises secure their cloud infrastructure. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wiz provides organizations with real-time visibility into their cloud environments. The platform enables businesses to assess risks, identify vulnerabilities, manage identities and privileges, and detect misconfigurations across various cloud services, containers, and workloads. By offering insights without the need for agents or sidecars, Wiz empowers enterprises to effectively manage their security posture and protect sensitive information.

Noname Security

Series B in 2021
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2020. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), focusing on protecting against data leakage, authorization issues, and other vulnerabilities. Its agentless platform enables enterprises to discover, classify, and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs in real-time without requiring modifications to the network or the installation of agents. Noname Security's offerings include comprehensive detection and prevention capabilities, delivering greater visibility and security than traditional API gateways and load balancers.

Transmit Security

Series A in 2021
Transmit Security provides innovative authentication and risk management solutions to the largest enterprises in the world. Its mission is to enable organizations to deliver advanced identity use cases that improve the user experience, enhance security, and meet compliance mandates at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional identity solutions. From the industry’s first app-less biometric authenticator to its state-of-the-art low-code identity orchestration platform, Transmit Security is a recognized leader in identity and risk innovation, solving the most critical authentication and risk challenges across the entire organization from the data center to the cloud.

Axis Security

Series C in 2021
Axis Security Inc. is a private application access company founded in 2018 and based in California. It specializes in a zero-trust cloud security platform that enables organizations to manage access for employees, partners, and stakeholders securely. Through its innovative Application Isolation Technology, Axis Security ensures that users have access only to the necessary resources, minimizing excess access and associated risks. This approach transforms open networks and vulnerable applications into secure resources, allowing businesses to operate and expand with confidence. The company's focus on cloud security and analytics solutions positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of cybersecurity.

Fireblocks

Series C in 2021
Fireblocks Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in blockchain-based security solutions for managing digital assets. Founded in 2018, it offers a platform that safeguards the transmission of digital assets among exchanges, counter brokers, hot wallets, and cold storage. The company primarily serves financial institutions, providing a secure method for moving funds efficiently and safely. In addition to its headquarters in New York, Fireblocks has a presence in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Wiz

Series B in 2021
Wiz, Inc. is a cloud security company that designs and develops a comprehensive platform to help enterprises secure their cloud infrastructure. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wiz provides organizations with real-time visibility into their cloud environments. The platform enables businesses to assess risks, identify vulnerabilities, manage identities and privileges, and detect misconfigurations across various cloud services, containers, and workloads. By offering insights without the need for agents or sidecars, Wiz empowers enterprises to effectively manage their security posture and protect sensitive information.

Cyera

Seed Round in 2020
Cyera is the next generation data security platform that empowers security teams to manage and protect all of their company’s sensitive data. The platform provides visibility and insight into your data, identities, and access, and delivers actionable guidance to remediate threats stemming from exposure, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations. The most common use cases include incident response - detecting data exposures and suspicious data access - and attack surface minimization - enforcing least privileged access and removing unnecessary data. Cyera was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in San Mateo, USA.

Noname Security

Series A in 2020
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2020. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), focusing on protecting against data leakage, authorization issues, and other vulnerabilities. Its agentless platform enables enterprises to discover, classify, and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs in real-time without requiring modifications to the network or the installation of agents. Noname Security's offerings include comprehensive detection and prevention capabilities, delivering greater visibility and security than traditional API gateways and load balancers.

Bionic

Series A in 2020
Bionic, Inc. is an application intelligence company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019. The company provides a platform designed to help enterprises manage the complexities arising from the rapid deployment of new and updated applications. Bionic’s agentless platform enables organizations to efficiently handle application management, security, and compliance, offering tools such as comprehensive asset inventory, dependency and dataflow mapping, and continuous control. By streamlining these processes, Bionic allows teams to achieve results in minutes that previously took months, thereby enhancing operational effectiveness and security in application management.

Wiz

Series A in 2020
Wiz, Inc. is a cloud security company that designs and develops a comprehensive platform to help enterprises secure their cloud infrastructure. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wiz provides organizations with real-time visibility into their cloud environments. The platform enables businesses to assess risks, identify vulnerabilities, manage identities and privileges, and detect misconfigurations across various cloud services, containers, and workloads. By offering insights without the need for agents or sidecars, Wiz empowers enterprises to effectively manage their security posture and protect sensitive information.

Fireblocks

Series B in 2020
Fireblocks Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in blockchain-based security solutions for managing digital assets. Founded in 2018, it offers a platform that safeguards the transmission of digital assets among exchanges, counter brokers, hot wallets, and cold storage. The company primarily serves financial institutions, providing a secure method for moving funds efficiently and safely. In addition to its headquarters in New York, Fireblocks has a presence in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Axis Security

Series B in 2020
Axis Security Inc. is a private application access company founded in 2018 and based in California. It specializes in a zero-trust cloud security platform that enables organizations to manage access for employees, partners, and stakeholders securely. Through its innovative Application Isolation Technology, Axis Security ensures that users have access only to the necessary resources, minimizing excess access and associated risks. This approach transforms open networks and vulnerable applications into secure resources, allowing businesses to operate and expand with confidence. The company's focus on cloud security and analytics solutions positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of cybersecurity.

Legit Security

Seed Round in 2020
Legit Security specializes in cybersecurity solutions focused on protecting software supply chains from various threats. The company offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to discover and secure software development pipelines, infrastructure, code, and personnel. This solution is compatible with both cloud and on-premises environments, integrating automated discovery and analysis with a wide range of security policies developed by industry experts. By addressing vulnerabilities and minimizing risks associated with software supply-chain attacks, Legit Security enables businesses to maintain a fast-paced development cycle while ensuring the security of their software releases.

Axis Security

Series A in 2020
Axis Security Inc. is a private application access company founded in 2018 and based in California. It specializes in a zero-trust cloud security platform that enables organizations to manage access for employees, partners, and stakeholders securely. Through its innovative Application Isolation Technology, Axis Security ensures that users have access only to the necessary resources, minimizing excess access and associated risks. This approach transforms open networks and vulnerable applications into secure resources, allowing businesses to operate and expand with confidence. The company's focus on cloud security and analytics solutions positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of cybersecurity.

Axis Security

Seed Round in 2020
Axis Security Inc. is a private application access company founded in 2018 and based in California. It specializes in a zero-trust cloud security platform that enables organizations to manage access for employees, partners, and stakeholders securely. Through its innovative Application Isolation Technology, Axis Security ensures that users have access only to the necessary resources, minimizing excess access and associated risks. This approach transforms open networks and vulnerable applications into secure resources, allowing businesses to operate and expand with confidence. The company's focus on cloud security and analytics solutions positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of cybersecurity.

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 New York-based company that specializes in blockchain-based security solutions for managing digital assets. Founded in 2018, it offers a platform that safeguards the transmission of digital assets among exchanges, counter brokers, hot wallets, and cold storage. The company primarily serves financial institutions, providing a secure method for moving funds efficiently and safely. In addition to its headquarters in New York, Fireblocks has a presence in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Bionic

Seed Round in 2019
Bionic, Inc. is an application intelligence company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019. The company provides a platform designed to help enterprises manage the complexities arising from the rapid deployment of new and updated applications. Bionic’s agentless platform enables organizations to efficiently handle application management, security, and compliance, offering tools such as comprehensive asset inventory, dependency and dataflow mapping, and continuous control. By streamlining these processes, Bionic allows teams to achieve results in minutes that previously took months, thereby enhancing operational effectiveness and security in application management.