Cybersecurity startup Daylight has announced raising $33 million in a Series A funding round to fuel the development of its AI-powered Managed Detection and Response (MDR) platform.
Leveraging agentic AI and human expertise, Daylight offers Managed Agentic Security Services (MASS), what it describes as a new category of autonomous, end-to-end cyber defenses.
The company’s platform was designed to hunt, analyze, and contain threats in real-time, around the clock, and to provide coverage across hybrid environments.
The MASS platform, Daylight says, continuously and autonomously learns, adapts, and acts, operating at the same speed as today’s threats, allowing organizations to scale defenses without expanding security teams.
The fresh funds will help the company fuel its expansion, accelerate the development of its security operations platform, and launch new identity threat response and cloud workload protection modules.
The new investment round was led by Craft Ventures, with additional support from Bain Capital Ventures, Maple VC, and several angel investors.
Founded in 2024 by veterans of Israel’s military intelligence arm Unit 8200, Tel Aviv-based Daylight emerged from stealth mode in September with $7 million in seed funding.
The company operates across Asia, Europe, and North America and already serves dozens of enterprises, including Cresta, McKinsey Investment Office, and The Motley Fool.
“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. The detection and response market is being reinvented, and Daylight is proud to be leading that change,” Daylight co-founder and CEO Hagai Shapira said.
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