Cybersecurity startup Cyera Ltd. today announced that it has raised $400 million in funding from Goldman Sachs.
The investment bank provided the capital as an extension to a Series G round that closed in June. The latter deal valued Cyera at $12 billion. The company says that it’s now worth “over $12 billion” but didn’t share an exact figure.
Large enterprises store data in upwards of dozens of systems, which can make it difficult to find misplaced files. Cyera sells a cloud platform that helps companies determine where their most sensitive business records are kept. The software also uncovers related details such as what information a record contains, who can access it and whether it’s stored securely.
The company expanded its focus to artificial intelligence agents shortly after its Series G round’s first close in June. Cyera launched two products, Agent Guardian and Cyera Endpoint, that are designed to protect business records from AI-related cybersecurity risks.
Agent Guardian creates an inventory of the agents that interact with a company’s data. It then scans them for vulnerabilities that might expose business records to hacking. For example, it can spot agents that have access to more data than they strictly require to carry out their work. Cyera also identifies cybersecurity issues in agent tools and MCP servers.
According to the company, customers can create policies to define what agents can and can’t do. Cyera automatically detects AI tools that don’t meet those requirements. Agent Guardian can block agent actions that pose a cybersecurity risk or, if the issue is not limited to a single action, quarantine the agent.
Cyera rolled out the software alongside a second cybersecurity tool called Cyera Endpoint. It’s designed to monitor AI agents that run on employee devices, which are often beyond the reach of traditional enterprise cybersecurity tools. Endpoint can prevent users from loading business data into non-work agents. Additionally, it prevents agents from moving records off an employee device if they don’t have permission to do so.
Earlier this month, Cyera further expanded its agent security capabilities by completing its $1 billion acquisition of Oasis Security Ltd. The latter startup offers a platform for securing nonhuman identities, or NHIs. Those are the accounts that AI agents use to log into a company’s applications. Oasis can map out the NHIs in a corporate network, identify which agents use them and flag cybersecurity risks such as overly broad access permissions.
“AI infrastructure is moving faster than the security architecture around it,” said Cyera co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Yotam Segev (pictured, right, with co-founders Tamar Bar-Ilan and Yonatan Itay). “This investment accelerates our work to bring data and identity together, so enterprises can give agents access with confidence and keep that access aligned with business intent.”
Cyera will use the capital to build more AI security features. The company will also work to expand the adoption of its software in the federal government and international markets.
