Daylight, a cybersecurity company pioneering agentic AI-driven managed protection, has secured $33m in a Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $40m.
The investment was led by Craft Ventures, with additional backing from Bain Capital Ventures, Maple VC, and several renowned cybersecurity founders and angel investors. These include Assaf Rappaport of Wiz; Ofer Smadari, Leonid Belkind, and Eldad Livni of Torq; Tamar Bar-Ilan and Yotam Segev of Cyera; Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael of Armis; and Ofir Ehrlich of EON.
Founded by Unit 8200 veterans Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rodich, Daylight has rapidly grown to serve enterprises across the U.S. and Europe, including The Motley Fool, Cresta, and McKinsey Investment Office. The company’s mission is to transform traditional managed detection and response (MDR) services by infusing AI autonomy and precision into every stage of threat detection and incident response.
The fresh capital will support Daylight’s expansion in the U.S. market, accelerate the development of its AI-powered security operations platform, and fund the introduction of new modules focused on identity threat response and cloud workload protection.
Daylight’s platform can be deployed in under an hour, integrating seamlessly with both cloud and on-premise systems. Its AI agents continuously learn from each investigation and act autonomously under analyst supervision to detect, analyse, and contain threats in real time, offering tailored “white-glove” managed protection for each client.
As cyberattacks continue to increase by 50% year over year and data breach costs reach an average of $4.45m, the demand for more intelligent, adaptive security solutions is soaring. Daylight’s approach seeks to close this gap by creating a new category of Managed Agentic Security Services (MASS).
Daylight CEO and co-founder Hagai Shapira said, “Cyber threats are evolving faster than traditional SOC and MDR services can handle. We built Daylight to deliver a new level of managed protection services that respond with the speed and precision of AI, guided by human expertise. Having the support of some of the industry’s top founders and global investors strengthens our belief that this is where the future of cybersecurity is headed. The detection and response market is being reinvented, and Daylight is proud to be leading that change.”
Craft Ventures principal Kevin Gabura said, “Security leaders are eager to integrate GenAI and agents within their operations. Daylight’s MDR is a turnkey, high-impact way to accomplish that, with dozens of organizations already on board. Agent-native MDR is just the beginning of Hagai and Eldad’s ambitious vision for creating a new category of Managed Agentic Security Services, or MASS, and we’re excited to partner with them to achieve this vision.”
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