Daylight Raises $80 Million Series B to Expand AI Security Operations

Daylight announced an $80 million Series B on November 10, 2026, led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs (GS ) Alternatives, bringing the AI security company’s total funding to $120 million.

Okta Ventures participated as a new investor alongside existing backers Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Vintage Partners and Maple Capital. Daylight said the new capital will fund a larger U.S. presence, entry into markets across EMEA and APAC, growth in its security engineering and technology teams, and faster development of its AI-native security platform.

The company reported that revenue grew more than 40-fold over the year preceding the announcement, attributing the increase to demand from Fortune 500 enterprises and AI-native companies. Its customer base includes Lovable, LastPass, Rogo, dLocal and Miro.

How the Managed Service Works

Daylight’s service combines AI agents with human security experts to detect, investigate and respond to cyber threats. Its engineers continuously build, run and customize agents for each customer’s systems, workflows, risks and priorities. The agents handle day-to-day security operations, while engineers retain decisions requiring human judgment.

Customers can choose fully managed service, co-managed service alongside internal teams, or support from forward-deployed engineers. That range is designed for organizations that want to outsource security operations entirely and those that want internal teams to retain control over detections and processes.

Aura, Daylight’s AI-native platform, provides natural-language security investigations, a centralized security-data lake and a single interface for managing security operations. Daylight says it detects threats in seconds and responds to and contains them within minutes, up to 10 times faster than traditional managed security providers.

Coverage also extends to the AI platforms enterprises use themselves. Daylight said it addresses risks including prompt injection, risky MCPs and unusual AI-driven activity, investigating those events alongside identity, endpoint, cloud, SaaS and business context in its MDR workflow. Miro is among the enterprise customers already using the capability.

Founders and Investor Rationale

Chief Executive Hagai Shapira co-founded Daylight with Eldad Rudich. They met while serving in an Israeli military intelligence unit. Shapira was an early product leader at Torq, while Rudich served as Torq’s vice president of R&D and built its core platform and engineering organization.

Irit Kahan, managing director and global head of cyber security investing within Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, gave the investor’s rationale in Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s release: “By scaling human expertise with agentic technology, Daylight has the potential to enable organizations to respond at machine speed, with greater accuracy and at scale.”

The financing therefore supports more than an expansion of Daylight’s software. Its plan also depends on adding engineers and adapting a managed service to each customer’s systems and workflows as it enters additional regions, making service delivery a central part of how the new capital is deployed.