Israeli-founded cybersecurity startup Mave has raised $34 million in seed and Series A funding as it develops an artificial intelligence platform designed to automate the investigation of cyber threats and help businesses respond to attacks more quickly.
The funding includes a $28 million Series A round led by Red Dot Capital Partners and a previously raised $6 million seed round led by Dell Technologies Capital and Emerge Ventures. The company said it plans to use the investment to expand its AI research, develop its enterprise security products and strengthen its international operations.
The Mave team
(Photo: Oron Kaplan)
Founded in 2025 by Israeli military intelligence veterans Raziel Oren and Guy Eshel, Mave develops AI-based technology that works across a company's existing cybersecurity systems to investigate alerts, identify threats and recommend or execute approved responses.
The company is targeting a longstanding challenge for corporate security teams: the need to investigate potential attacks across multiple systems, often requiring analysts to manually piece together information from different sources before determining whether an incident poses a genuine threat.
That process has become increasingly difficult as businesses accumulate security tools and generate larger volumes of data. At the same time, the growing use of AI by attackers has intensified pressure on security teams to detect and contain threats before they spread.
Mave's platform is designed to address those challenges by connecting to existing security tools and retrieving information directly from them as an investigation unfolds. Rather than relying exclusively on centralized security logs, the system can examine additional context, including user identities, system configurations and the current state of an organization's digital infrastructure.
According to the company, its technology can investigate all incoming security alerts within minutes, filter out false positives and identify potentially related attacks. It can also carry out response measures, such as isolating affected systems or disabling compromised accounts, within parameters established by the customer's security team.
Mave said its platform records the queries, decisions and actions taken during each investigation, allowing security professionals to review how conclusions were reached.
"Security teams still investigate threats one tool at a time, manually piecing together evidence before they can reach a verdict. Attackers do not wait. Every pivot adds delay, and every delay creates risk," said Oren, Mave's co-founder and CEO. "Mave is built to reduce risk by giving security teams AI that can keep pace with attackers, show its work, and know when human judgment is required," he added.
The company uses a combination of specialized AI models, large language models and automated workflows to process security information and determine appropriate responses. Its approach reflects a broader shift in cybersecurity toward so-called agentic AI, in which software systems can perform sequences of tasks and take certain actions with limited human intervention.
According to Mave, its technology has been used during active cyber incidents to isolate systems, disable compromised user accounts and block malicious activity. Mave also reported that its annual recurring revenue has increased by more than 400% and that it is already signing contracts worth seven figures. The company did not disclose its current revenue, customer count or valuation.
Oren previously served as a captain in the IDF's Unit 8200 intelligence division and later led go-to-market operations at Wing Security. Eshel, Mave's co-founder, is a former Unit 8200 major who was the first employee at cybersecurity company Alterya and later served as its vice president of research and development. Alterya was subsequently acquired by blockchain analytics company Chainalysis.