Israeli cybersecurity startup Mave has raised $34 million in seed and Series A funding to put AI agents on the security operations floor, the company announced on October 22. The $28 million Series A was led by Red Dot Capital Partners with Lumir Growth Partners participating, following a $6 million seed round led by Dell Technologies Capital and Emerge Ventures.
Founded in 2025 by chief executive Raziel Oren and chief technology officer Guy Eshel, both veterans of Israel’s Unit 8200 intelligence unit, Mave builds AI agents that investigate security alerts across a company’s existing tools — without requiring the organisation to centralise all its data first.
The platform pulls information from connected security products, investigates suspicious activity, discards false positives, and can take approved response actions such as isolating systems or disabling compromised identities. Oren told SiliconANGLE the company is already working with Fortune 200 companies and global managed security service providers, with adoption across more than 200 security operations centres and in regulated financial and healthcare environments.
Agents With An Audit Trail
Mave’s pitch rests on transparency. Every workflow the agents run is logged step by step, so human operators can see why the software acted — a design choice meant to answer the trust question that keeps security teams from handing investigations to autonomous software.
The company says its software has contained live attacks by isolating systems before incidents became breaches, and claims annual recurring revenue has grown more than 400% over the past six months, with seven-figure deals now closing. Those figures are the company’s own claims; the startup has disclosed few independently verifiable customer names. Its 30-person team is small even by startup standards, which is part of the pitch: the agents are meant to do the work of a much larger staff.
Pricing is a flat fee scaled to company size. Competitors include Dropzone and Prophet Security, which are chasing the same idea: security teams cannot hire their way out of a staffing problem, and the tooling has not kept pace with threats that arrive at machine speed.
Why The Timing Works
The funding lands in the middle of an AI security boom. In recent weeks, Microsoft attributed a supply-chain attack to AI agents, researchers found a backdoor in a popular AI gateway’s Python packages, and US agencies published their first incident playbook for autonomous agents. Every one of those stories is both a market signal and a marketing asset for a company selling agent-driven defence.
“Coverage is a budget decision, not a security one,” said Atad Peled, a partner at Red Dot Capital Partners, in SiliconANGLE’s report. “Neither group was built for a world run by AI agents.” Mave’s bet is that the next security platform is agent-shaped — and that enterprises will pay for investigations that explain themselves.
Why It Matters
Mave is riding the strongest tailwind in cybersecurity: AI is simultaneously the attacker and the defender. A startup that puts traceable AI agents directly onto the security operations floor addresses the industry’s two biggest problems at once — a chronic analyst shortage and the growing speed of AI-assisted attacks.
The open question is the one Oren himself concedes: buyers need time before they trust software with investigations, and $34 million does not buy traction by itself. The revenue claims are impressive if they hold; the next twelve months will show whether they do.
Background
Oren previously led go-to-market operations at Wing Security, while Eshel was the first employee at Alterya, the fraud detection startup acquired by Chainalysis in January 2025. Mave plans to more than double its 30-person team with the new capital, with hiring focused on go-to-market staff and AI researchers, and its Israeli development centre remaining central to the expansion.
Source: SiliconANGLE, CTech
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