Key Takeaways
- Israeli cybersecurity startup Mave has emerged from stealth with $34 million in total funding, including a $28 million Series A led by Red Dot Capital Partners.
- Its agentic AI platform connects existing security tools to automate threat detection, investigation and response, and is already operating in more than 200 security operations centres.
- Mave reports over 400% annual recurring revenue growth and plans to expand its AI research, enterprise platform and international operations.
Tel Aviv, Israel-based cybersecurity startup Mave has emerged from stealth with $34 million in total funding to develop its agentic AI platform for enterprise security operations. The financing includes a $28 million Series A led by Red Dot Capital Partners, with participation from Lumir Growth Partners and existing investors Dell Technologies Capital and Emerge Ventures, which previously led the company’s $6 million Seed round. The funding will support AI research, enterprise product development and international expansion as Mave scales its technology for security teams.
Founded in 2025 by Raziel Oren, CEO, and Guy Eshel, CTO, Mave develops an AI-powered platform that connects an organisation’s existing security tools into a unified system for threat detection, investigation and response. The company aims to reduce the manual work required to investigate cyber threats while allowing enterprises to maintain their existing security infrastructure.
Building an Agentic AI Platform for Security Operations
Enterprise security teams often rely on dozens of tools to monitor networks, identities, cloud environments and other systems. Investigating a potential threat requires analysts to move between platforms, collect evidence and reconstruct events before determining how to respond. Traditional security information and event management (SIEM) systems centralise security data, but much of the context needed for investigations, including current configurations, identity permissions and system activity, remains distributed across other tools.
Mave addresses this challenge by using AI agents to work directly across an organisation’s existing security infrastructure without requiring companies to consolidate their data into a separate database. The platform queries connected systems, gathers live information and correlates findings to investigate alerts, identify false positives and execute authorised response actions. According to the company, its technology can investigate 100% of incoming alerts within minutes, while recording queries, decisions and actions to provide traceability and maintain human oversight where required.
The system combines purpose-built workflows, fine-tuned small language models and larger AI models to handle both routine security tasks and complex investigations. Beyond responding to alerts, Mave supports threat hunting, detection engineering and security analysis, allowing teams to identify gaps in their defences and investigate emerging attack campaigns across connected systems.
Mave says its platform is already operating in more than 200 security operations centres and is used by Fortune 50 companies and global managed security service providers. Its technology also operates in regulated financial services and healthcare environments, where it has reportedly helped contain live attacks by isolating affected systems, disabling compromised identities and blocking malicious activity.
Funding to Accelerate AI Research and Global Expansion
The funding announcement follows a period of commercial growth, with Mave reporting an increase of more than 400% in annual recurring revenue over the past year and enterprise contracts valued in the seven figures. The company has grown to more than 30 employees and plans to more than double its team, with hiring focused on AI research and go-to-market roles.
Mave’s founders bring experience from Israel’s Unit 8200 and the cybersecurity industry. CEO Raziel Oren previously served as a captain in Unit 8200 and led go-to-market activities at Wing Security, while CTO Guy Eshel, a former Unit 8200 major, was the first employee and later VP of R&D at Alterya before its acquisition by Chainalysis. Their backgrounds in security operations and enterprise software have shaped the company’s approach to automating investigations across existing security infrastructure.
The new capital will allow Mave to advance its AI research, expand its enterprise platform and strengthen its international presence. Its technology is currently generally available to enterprise customers, with the company focusing on helping security teams investigate threats, improve detection capabilities and respond to incidents without replacing their existing security systems.
