Huskeys, an Edge Security Management (ESM) startup and developer, has come out of stealth mode after securing $8m in seed funding to address what it describes as a decades-long failure in web application security.
The seed round attracted a wide range of investors spanning venture capital, cybersecurity and sport. VC participants include 10D, SV Angel, toDay Ventures (part of Merlin Ventures), CCL, and Alumni Ventures, while cybersecurity angels Ariel Maislos, Michael Dolinsky, Benny Schnaider, Ofer Ben-Noon, Maty Siman, and Slavik Markovich also took part.
More than 30 CISOs from major global organisations joined the round alongside athlete angel investors, including footballer Mario Götze, NFL player Kelvin Beachum, and 2026 NFL Hall of Famer Larry Fitzgerald, The Players Fund, a Juventus Football Club venture partner, and Como 1907 stakeholders.
Alongside the fundraise, Huskeys has officially launched its ESM platform, which uses patent-pending technology to place an agentic layer across the entire edge security stack. The solution does not replace existing infrastructure but instead sits on top of it, offering plug-and-play deployment across multi-cloud and multi-WAF environments. Acting as an intelligence control plane, it unifies CDN, WAF, infrastructure, and application flows, with its AI engine abstracting provider-specific syntax, enriching it with organisational context, and continuously orchestrating rules, policies, and configurations based on traffic behaviour, business logic, and risk assessment.
The platform has already been adopted by a number of high-profile global organisations, including TikTok, Merlin Entertainments, and Hugging Face.
Huskeys CEO and co-founder Itai Gafni said, “Web traffic has shifted from humans to APIs and now to automated agents, making it harder than ever to distinguish between legitimate and malicious activity.
“Security teams have essentially given up on making their WAF effective because the trade-off is too high. In almost every call, we hear the same thing: ‘I don’t want to touch it.’ You either block legitimate customers and lose revenue or leave the doors open to modern attacks. It’s a doomsday choice no one should have to make.”
Huskeys co-founder and CTO Roy Weisfeld said, “We met while working on a mutual project that used AI to enhance web hacking to bypass the most common WAF vendors, and it was shocking how easily we were able to bypass every existing solution. Their effectiveness was essentially zero.”
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