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Daylight Security funding, valuation and investors
AI-native managed detection and response vendor; $80M Series B led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives on November 10, 2026, bringing announced financing to $120M.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series B
$80M · November 10, 2026
Latest known valuation
Approximately $400M (WSJ-reported, not company-disclosed)
Series B · November 10, 2026
Total disclosed equity funding
$120M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
growth · New York, NY, United States (announcement); Israeli founding team
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives
Other: Okta Ventures , Bain Capital Ventures , Craft Ventures , Vintage Partners , Maple Capital
Overview
Daylight Security, the AI-native managed detection and response company founded by Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rudich, combines its Aura AI agents with senior human security engineers. A Goldman Sachs Alternatives-led $80M Series B announced Nov 10 2026 brings total disclosed funding to $120M following $7M 2025 seed and $33M Series A; the Wall Street Journal separately reported an approximately $400M valuation not confirmed by the issuer.
Customers choose fully managed, co-managed or forward-deployed security services. Pricing and audited revenue undisclosed.
Why Daylight Security is interesting
AI agents plus humans take responsibility for managed security response using a customer's existing tools, including Claude/MCP risk detections. Its 40x revenue growth and 10x response claims are vendor-reported, with no published audited baseline. WSJ independently reports approximately $400M valuation but company does not disclose it; separate from crypto startup Daylight at /startup/daylight.
Product & use cases
Representative buyer: a CISO wants 24/7 response without replacing all endpoint/SIEM subscriptions. Daylight scopes cloud, endpoint and identity signals; connects existing security sources bidirectionally; tunes detections and alert rules; Aura agents investigate and assemble evidence; senior humans approve high-consequence containment; team reviews audit trails, response times and coverage. Service variants are fully managed, co-managed, forward-deployed. No public fixed pricing, response SLA pricing, net revenue or independent 10x benchmark published.
- AI-augmented MDR that completes investigations and escalation/containment alongside a customer's existing security tools
- Agentic threat hunting and managed SIEM detection tuning across identity, endpoint, cloud, SaaS and AI/MCP usage
- Security data lake enabling plain-English/KQL investigations and customer-accessible historic telemetry
Key facts
- Nov 10 2026 $80M Series B led Goldman Sachs Alternatives; $120M lifetime reported funding; reported ~$400M valuation according to WSJ, not issuer-confirmed.
- July 22, 2025: company-issued Business Wire $7M seed; Nov 4, 2025 company-issued Access Newswire $33M Series A.
- Up to 10x faster response and 40x revenue growth are vendor claims, absolute metrics and public pricing undisclosed.
Funding history (newest first)
Series B
2026-11-10 $80M Valuation: Approximately $400M (WSJ-reported, not company-disclosed)- Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (lead)
- Okta Ventures (participant)
- Bain Capital Ventures (participant)
- Craft Ventures (participant)
- Vintage Partners (participant)
- Maple Capital (participant)
Source: Read source · daylight.ai
Series A
2025-11-04 $33M- Craft Ventures (lead)
- Bain Capital Ventures (participant)
- Maple Capital (participant)
Source: Read source · accessnewswire.com
Seed
2025-07-22 $7M- Bain Capital Ventures (lead)
- Maple Capital (participant)
Competitive landscape
Edge: Potentially distinctive human-plus-agent, outcomes-focused managed operations and bi-directional integration, but dependence on privileged telemetry, response authority and service quality requires diligence; vendor metrics are not randomized independent tests.
A meaningful MDR RFP should test five representative alerts across endpoint/identity/SaaS; trace evidence and approvals; ask for responsibility matrix (who contains what), audit logs, data residency and retention, SIEM replacement costs, deployment hours and direct service pricing. The company's up-to-10x response and 40x growth statements are self-reported; no audit, customer count denominator or baseline given.
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Exaforce adjacent
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