Cyera funding, valuation and investors

Overview

Cyera builds a data-security platform that discovers, classifies, and protects sensitive information across cloud accounts, SaaS apps, and on-prem environments — governing what humans and AI agents can access and do with that data. The platform spans DSPM, DLP, identity, privacy, and agentic security. Founded in 2021 in Tel Aviv, Cyera serves enterprises including Paramount, Chipotle, and Valvoline. In June 2026 it raised $600M at a $12B valuation in Series G, led by Evolution Equity Partners with Cyberstarts and Temasek; total funding exceeds $2.3B. The company has tripled ARR three years running, grown to ~1,500 employees across 18 countries, and acquired five companies including Ryft and Genie.

Why Cyera is interesting

Cyera hit $12B on $600M Series G in June 2026 — quadrupling valuation in 18 months — by selling what boards now demand: a map of every sensitive datum AI agents can touch, not another perimeter firewall.

Product & use cases

Cyera scans cloud and SaaS environments to build a live inventory of sensitive data, classifies it by risk, and enforces policies on who and what — including AI agents — can access, move, or exfiltrate it.

• CISOs governing what enterprise AI tools and agents can read from Snowflake, Salesforce, and cloud storage
• DSPM programs replacing spreadsheet-based data inventories for compliance (SOC 2, GDPR, AI governance)
• Security teams preventing toxic combinations of exposed credentials plus sensitive datasets

Key facts

• Series G (Jun 2026): $600M at $12B valuation led by Evolution Equity Partners (company press release)
• Total funding exceeds $2.3B; ARR tripled three consecutive years per company claims
• ~1,500 employees across 18 countries; five acquisitions including Ryft and Genie
• Customers include Paramount, Chipotle, and Valvoline for AI data governance
• Prior Series F (Jan 2026): $400M at $9B valuation

Funding history (newest first)

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Cyera's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Competitive landscape

Edge: Cyera positioned early as the 'trust layer' for AI — combining data discovery depth with agentic access controls before incumbents finished retrofitting legacy DLP for LLM workflows.

Enterprise AI adoption is forcing security budgets toward data visibility and agent governance rather than perimeter tools alone. Cyera leads on valuation and growth velocity in DSPM-for-AI, but faces platform bundling from cloud incumbents and well-funded cloud-security peers racing into the same trust-layer narrative.

• Wiz adjacent

  Cloud security graph and CNAPP; expanding into data context but different origin (cloud posture vs DSPM-first).

• Varonis incumbent

  Data security and analytics incumbent; adding AI features but legacy on-prem roots.

• BigID direct

  Data discovery and privacy platform; competes on DSPM and classification breadth.

• Microsoft Purview incumbent

  Bundled data governance in M365/Azure estates; Cyera wins in multi-cloud heterogeneity.

Notable stories

• Cyera quadrupled its valuation to $12B in 18 months across multiple mega-rounds — making it one of the most valuable private security companies globally (company press release, June 2026).
• Cyberstarts backed Cyera before the AI-data-security thesis was mainstream; GP Lior Simon noted enterprises hit the same wall at scale: not knowing what their AI can see (Cyera blog, June 2026).

Industries

Related funding articles

Venture Capital Tracker pieces that cover Cyera's financing or category context.

• Cyera's $600M at $12B: Building the 'Trust Layer' for Enterprise AI