Guardio, an Israeli cybersecurity company specialising in consumer cyber protection, has raised $80m in a fresh funding round.
According to CTech, the latest investment was led by ION Crossover Partners, with additional capital coming from existing backers Vintage Investment Partners, Union Tech Ventures and Emerge.
The firm said the raise follows three years of more than 100% annual recurring revenue growth, positioning it to surpass the $100m ARR milestone as early as 2026.
Guardio operates in the fast-expanding consumer cybersecurity space, offering protection tools designed to defend individuals from increasingly sophisticated online threats. The company argues that while attackers have evolved rapidly over the past decade, personal cyber tools have lagged behind, leaving ordinary users more exposed than ever. The firm points to the scale of this challenge: in 2024, American consumers lost more than $12.5bn to fraud, a 25% jump compared with the previous year, and 73% of people reported being targeted by an attempted cyberattack.
The company plans to use the new capital to accelerate growth, strengthen its presence in the US market and expand its team in Israel. It also intends to continue advancing its consumer-focused protection engine, which it says is increasingly relevant in an era where AI-powered tools make it easy for malicious actors to replicate legitimate websites.
This growing relevance has attracted attention from the wider technology sector. Last month, Lovable, a fast-growing Vibe Coding and generative AI platform, revealed it would integrate Guardio’s engine into its website-building system to automatically scan newly created sites before they go live.
Guardio CEO and co-founder Amos Peled said, “Our last fundraising was in 2021. We started as a bootstrap. We have a different mentality than other companies. That round, led by Tiger, raised significant capital for a relatively small team, allowing us to focus for four years on building a real business. Raising at the right time gave us patience and the ability to fund growth according to the quality of our business. This round was with the most relevant investors for companies eyeing a public future, though we are still far from that stage, but they have extensive experience supporting Israeli companies toward public markets.”
Peled, who founded the business in 2018 alongside Daniel Sirota and Michael Vainshtein, added that the company has intentionally centred its efforts on private customers rather than B2B.
He said, “We focus on private customers. Our first B2B deal with Lovable revealed that our engine is one of the only solutions for the new threat landscape. Hackers used to need to replicate bank websites manually; now anyone can create identical pages using website builders. We know how to determine whether a page is real or fake. Currently, 99% of our revenue comes from private customers, which is where the opportunity lies, but our discovery engine can also serve business consumers.”
He continued, “Many users are realising that large companies do not adequately protect them, and they are seeking personal cyber protection. We are building a product for that audience. We will continue growing our brand in the United States and recruiting talented employees in Israel. We are a cyber company focused on consumers, so we occupy a unique space. The combination of consumer focus and cybersecurity from Israel is driving growing demand. Our goal is to become the largest consumer cyber company in the world.”
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