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Daylight raises $80 million for AI-assisted security operations

Goldman Sachs Alternatives led an $80 million Series B round for Daylight, bringing its total funding to $120 million. The company plans to expand geographically and develop its platform, which combines AI agents with human security engineers.

AI.info Team · · fact-checked · against 3 sources ↓ · Published 12 Nov 2026

Daylight has raised $80 million in a Series B round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives to expand its AI-assisted cybersecurity operations. The November 10 funding announcement comes as the company combines AI agents with human engineers to detect, investigate and respond to threats.

Okta Ventures joined as a new investor, alongside existing investors Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Vintage Partners and Maple Capital. The round brings Daylight’s total funding to $120 million.

Expansion plans

Daylight says its revenue grew more than 40-fold over the past year, with demand from Fortune 500 enterprises and AI-native companies. Its customers include Lovable, LastPass, Rogo, dLocal and Miro, according to the company.

The company plans to use the funding to expand its U.S. presence, enter markets across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific, and grow its security engineering and technology teams. It also intends to accelerate development of its AI-native security platform.

CTech reported that the company’s valuation is estimated at approximately $400 million.

Agents and engineers

Daylight combines its platform with security engineers who build, run and customize AI agents for each customer’s systems, workflows, risks and priorities. The agents handle day-to-day security operations, while engineers focus on decisions requiring human judgment.

Customers can choose a fully managed service, a co-managed arrangement alongside their internal teams, or support from forward-deployed engineers. Through the Aura platform, customers can investigate their security environment using natural language, access security data in a centralized data lake and manage operations from one place.

The company claims it detects threats in seconds and responds to and contains them within minutes. That is up to 10 times faster than traditional managed security providers, according to Daylight.

Daylight also says its coverage extends to the AI platforms customers use, addressing risks such as prompt injection, risky MCPs and unusual AI-driven activity. It says those detections go through its managed detection and response workflow, where AI activity is investigated alongside identity, endpoint, cloud, SaaS and business context. The capability is already in use by enterprise customers including Miro, the company says.

AI oversight and the founders

In a survey of 856 cybersecurity professionals who use AI in their roles, ISC2 found that 65% spent more time over the past year deciding when to trust or act on AI-generated recommendations, while 63% spent more time reviewing or validating outputs. The survey was conducted in May 2026.

The survey also found that participants’ leading concerns about more autonomous or self-directed AI systems in security operations included over-reliance on recommendations, cited by 62%, and undetected errors that could scale rapidly across systems, cited by 61%.

Daylight was founded by CEO Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rudich. The two met while serving in an elite Israeli military intelligence unit. Shapira was an early product leader at cybersecurity company Torq, while Rudich was Torq’s first employee and vice president of research and development.

CTech reported that Daylight employs 80 people, including 43 in Israel. The outlet also reported that the company was founded in early 2025.