Daylight raises $80m Series B for AI-run security operations

Daylight raises $80m Series B for AI-run security operations

10 November 2026: Daylight, which sells security operations run by AI agents and overseen by its own engineers, says it has raised an $80 million Series B led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Okta Ventures joins as a new investor, and the company says its total funding now stands at $120 million.

The investors

Besides the lead and Okta Ventures, existing investors Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Vintage Partners and Maple Capital took part. Daylight also names angel investors among the founders of Wiz, Cyera, EON and Armis.

Irit Kahan, managing director and global head of cyber security investing in Goldman's growth equity team, said Daylight "has the potential to enable organizations to respond at machine speed, with greater accuracy and at scale."

Agents for the routine, engineers for the decisions

Daylight's service covers managed detection and response, phishing investigation, data loss prevention, threat hunting and a managed security data lake. Its agents are built and tuned for each customer's own systems and run the daily work of triage and investigation, while Daylight's security engineers handle the calls that need human judgment.

Customers choose how much to hand over: a fully managed service, a co-managed one alongside their own team, or forward-deployed engineers. Through its platform, Aura, a customer can query its security environment in plain language and reach its data in one place. Daylight says it detects threats in seconds and contains them within minutes, up to ten times faster than traditional managed security providers; that comparison is its own.

The company also watches the AI tools its customers use, flagging prompt injection, risky MCP servers and unusual AI-driven activity, and runs those alerts through the same response process as identity or endpoint alerts. It names Miro as a customer already using that capability.

"The future of security operations won't be defined by how many people a company can deploy," said Hagai Shapira, co-founder and chief executive.

Growth and founders

Daylight says its revenue grew more than 40 times over the past year, without giving a base figure. Customers it names are Lovable, LastPass, Rogo, dLocal and Miro.

Shapira was an early product leader at the security automation company Torq, and co-founder Eldad Rudich was Torq's first employee and its vice-president of research and development. The release is datelined New York and does not give a founding year.

The money will go into a larger US presence, entry into Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific, more security engineers and the platform itself.

The buying question it raises

A managed service built on agents changes what a buyer should ask in due diligence: which actions the agents take on their own, which wait for an engineer, and how a customer can see the difference after an incident. Daylight's co-managed option is the version where those lines are drawn with the customer's own team. Our catalogue lists 15 products in SIEM software and 12 in endpoint detection and response, the tools a service like this sits on top of.

Company profile on TrustList: Daylight

Sources

• Daylight: As AI threats surge, Daylight raises $80M led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, 10 November 2026, 10 November 2026