Daylight, a company specialising in AI-powered managed protection services, has raised $33m in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $40m.
The round was led by Craft Ventures, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures and Maple VC, alongside a roster of leading cybersecurity founders and angel investors including 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.
Daylight builds AI-native security operations solutions designed to modernise and automate threat detection and response for global enterprises. Founded by Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rodich, both veterans of Israel’s elite Unit 8200, the company already supports dozens of organisations across the U.S. and Europe, including The Motley Fool, Cresta, and McKinsey Investment Office.
The newly secured funding will accelerate Daylight’s U.S. expansion, support the launch of new AI-driven modules for identity threat response and cloud workload protection, and further the development of its AI-powered security operations platform.
The company’s platform deploys in under an hour and integrates with both cloud and on-premise environments to deliver tailored, round-the-clock managed security services. It uses autonomous AI agents that learn from each investigation and act under analyst supervision to detect, analyse, and contain cyber threats in real time.
Daylight’s leadership believes its technology represents the next generation of managed protection, blending automation with human expertise to counter AI-driven threats. The company’s rise comes at a time when cyberattacks have surged by 50% year on year, and the average cost of a data breach has reached $4.45m.
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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