Daylight

Security teams usually have to pick between running their own operations centre, handing everything to an outsourced one, or buying an automated tool that nobody is accountable for. Daylight was built to remove that choice. Its pitch is a service in which software agents do the investigative legwork and human security engineers supply the judgment and take responsibility for the outcome.

Two soldiers who met at eighteen

The founding account on the company's site starts in the Army Intelligence Corps, where Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rudich met at 18 and talked of building a company together. Years of work in cybersecurity convinced them that security services were too reactive and too dependent on the customer. Rather than strip out the humans from the same model, they set out to design a new one. Shapira is chief executive and Rudich chief technology officer.

Alerts that are investigated to a verdict

In the managed detection and response service, an investigation opens when a detection fires and follows the evidence across identity, endpoint, network, cloud and SaaS, with no fixed playbook. The result is meant to be a verdict the customer can verify, not another alert. Daylight also maps a customer's detection rules against the MITRE ATT&CK framework to show where coverage is thin. Further services cover phishing investigation, data loss prevention, threat hunting, a security data lake offered as an alternative to a SIEM, a managed SIEM service, and detection of threats aimed at AI platforms themselves such as prompt injection and risky MCP servers.

Three ways to engage

Customers can have Daylight own the work from alert to resolution, share it in a co-managed arrangement where the customer keeps its own detections and processes, or place a forward deployed Daylight engineer inside their team. Both sides work in Aura, the company's platform, which also allows natural language questions about the security environment. The service plugs into the tools a customer already runs rather than replacing them.

Key facts

Founders: Hagai Shapira (chief executive) and Eldad Rudich (chief technology officer) Platform: Aura Customers named by the company: Lovable, LastPass, Rogo, dLocal, Miro Funding stated by the company: $80 million Series B led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, announced 10 November 2026, with Okta Ventures, Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Vintage Partners and Maple Capital; $120 million raised in total