Daylight Security

Security OperationsDetection Response also known as Daylight, Daylight Security Inc.

Market readinessHow well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence. Established: Market readiness of 25 to 30, the typical band where most analyzed companies land.
DefensibilityHow well the company holds its position if competitors catch up on features, scored across seven dimensions against public evidence. Defensible: Defensibility of 15 or above. A position that stays hard for rivals to replicate.
Founded 2024
Funding $40M
Last updated 2026-07-27

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Executive Summary

Daylight sells managed detection and response to security teams, with AI agents investigating alerts and Daylight staff owning the verdicts. SecurityWeek reports that Daylight operates across Asia, Europe, and North America and serves dozens of enterprises. Cresta, McKinsey Investment Office, and The Motley Fool are named among them. Against 40 million dollars raised, no revenue or retention figure appears in the public record, so a buyer can see which enterprises signed and not whether they stayed. Two claims a buyer would want to check are a false-positive cut of up to 90 percent and setup in under an hour. Both reach the record through funding coverage rather than an independent test. Press both in a reference call.

Sourced Details

Description Managed security operations provider that runs detection, investigation, and response as a service, pairing AI agents with in-house security experts across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, phishing, and data-loss alerts. [f1]
Founded 2024 [f2]
HQ Tel Aviv, Israel [f3]
Funding $40M total [f4]
Latest funding Series A, $33M (November 2025), led by Craft Ventures with Bain Capital Ventures and Maple VC [f5]

Products

Product What it does
Daylight Managed Agentic MDR Managed detection and response service where AI agents run investigations end to end and Daylight security experts own escalation and resolution under a contractual accountability commitment.
Daylight Managed Agentic Threat Hunting Continuous threat hunting service where a Daylight expert sets the hypothesis and coordinated AI agents run IOC-based and hypothesis-based hunts across up to 90 days of customer telemetry.
Daylight Security Data Lake Service Managed telemetry retention and search layer for Daylight MDR customers, with 90 days of hot storage, archival storage beyond that, and an agent that answers plain-English questions or runs KQL.

Matrix Coverage

Cyber Defense Matrix

IdentifyProtectDetectRespondRecover
Devices Workstations, servers, phones, tablets, storage, network devices, IoT infrastructure, and similar hardware.
Applications Software, interactions, and application flows on the devices.
Networks Connections and traffic flowing among devices and apps, plus communication paths.
Data Content at rest, in transit, or in use across devices, apps, and networks.
Users The people using the devices, apps, networks, and data.

Daylight Managed Agentic MDR ingests endpoint, identity, cloud, and business-tool telemetry into a central data lake, then investigates and resolves the resulting alerts, with separate coverage for phishing and data-loss findings. It is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f6]

Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

Established 26 /40 Established: Market readiness of 25 to 30, the typical band where most analyzed companies land.
Dimension Score
Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. 3/5
Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs, demos, and third-party validation. 3/5
Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. 4/5
Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. 4/5
GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. 4/5
Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. 2/5
Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. 3/5
Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. 3/5

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Business Risks
Problem & Market
Product Capabilities
Competitive Positioning
Go-to-Market & Traction
Team & Credibility
Trust Readiness
Competitors

Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how defensible it is against market forces and examining the eight areas behind it.

Defensibility

Defensible 15 /21 Defensible: Defensibility of 15 or above. A position that stays hard for rivals to replicate. press the advantage

Dimension Score
Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. 3/3
Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. 2/3
Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. 1/3
Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. 3/3
Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. 3/3
Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. 2/3
Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. 1/3

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Product Capabilities & AI Advantages
Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market
Pricing Model
Product Delivery & Operations
Earning Customers' Trust
Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning
Team & Execution Capability

Sources

Company Detail Sources (6)
Id Source Tier Accessed
f1 Daylight homepage: Managed Security Services, Rebuilt for SecOps official 2026-07-27
f2 The Times of Israel on Daylight's Series A (2024 founding corroborated by SecurityWeek) press 2026-07-27
f3 SecurityWeek: Daylight Raises 33 Million for AI-Powered MDR Platform press 2026-07-27
f4 Calcalist CTech on Daylight's Series A press 2026-07-27
f5 SiliconANGLE on Daylight Security's 33 million Series A press 2026-07-27
f6 Daylight Managed Agentic MDR service page official 2026-07-27
Profile Analysis Sources (34)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 Daylight homepage: Managed Security Services, Rebuilt for SecOps
“Traditional MDR can't keep up with modern threats. AI SOC tools help with investigations, but still require a SOC team. Daylight introduces Managed Agentic Security Services (MASS) for SecOps, a new model where AI agents and security experts run your security operations together.”
official 2026-07-27
s2 Daylight Managed Agentic MDR service page (operating model and accountability)
“From alert ingestion to resolution, Daylight owns the full detection-to-response cycle with contractual accountability.”
official 2026-07-27
s3 Daylight Managed Agentic Threat Hunting service page
“We combine expert methodology with agentic AI execution to run hypothesis-based and IOC-based hunts across your environment.”
official 2026-07-27
s4 Daylight Security Data Lake Service page (positioning against a log platform)
“Not a SIEM. Not basic log storage. A fully managed agentic security data lake, giving Daylight's MDR customers long term data retention and self-service searches and investigations without the operational complexity and the high cost.”
official 2026-07-27
s5 Daylight MDR coverage page for AI systems
“Daylight builds detection rules on top of Claude Enterprise's runtime telemetry”
official 2026-07-27
s6 Daylight integrations catalog (coverage claim and connector cadence)
“Daylight ensures complete coverage by integrating seamlessly with your entire IT and security stack. Our agentic services can develop new integrations within days”
official 2026-07-27
s7 Daylight about page (founder history at Torq)
“Years later, they reunited at Torq. Eldad was the company's first employee and engineer. Hagai joined as its first product manager.”
official 2026-07-27
s8 SecurityWeek on Daylight's Series A (named customers and regions)
“The company operates across Asia, Europe, and North America and already serves dozens of enterprises, including Cresta, McKinsey Investment Office, and The Motley Fool.”
press 2026-07-27
s9 SiliconANGLE on Daylight Security's Series A (lead investor and angel roster)
“The Series A round was led by Craft Ventures Management, with Bain Capital Ventures, Maple VC and a number of individual investors also participating.”
press 2026-07-27
s10 Calcalist CTech on Daylight's Series A (round sequence and total funding)
“The round, coming three months after the company's $7 million Seed round, brings its total funding to $40 million and underscores investor urgency around AI-powered security operations”
press 2026-07-27
s11 The Times of Israel on Daylight (founding year, founders, military background)
“Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Daylight was founded in late 2024 by Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rodich, who met during their military service in the Israel Defense Forces' vaunted technological unit Unit 8200.”
press 2026-07-27
s12 MSSP Alert on Daylight's funding (the vendor's false-positive claim)
“The company's platform blends automation with analyst oversight to reduce false positives by up to 90%, providing continuous detection and response across hybrid environments.”
press 2026-07-27
s13 Daylight customer story: Antidote Health
“Antidote Health is a fast-growing health tech company delivering modern health insurance solutions in the U.S. Operating in a highly regulated environment, the company must balance rapid innovation with strong security and compliance requirements.”
official 2026-07-27
s14 Daylight blog on SOC-as-a-service providers (the managed providers it groups itself against)
“Expel, ReliaQuest, Arctic Wolf, eSentire, Secureworks Taegis MDR, and Red Canary sit here.”
official 2026-07-27
s15 Daylight homepage footer attestation probe 2026-07-27 (badge filenames and rendered pixels, trust. and security. subdomains, /trust and /compliance paths)
“Footer badge files SOC 2.svg (rendered: AICPA SOC 2, SOC for Service Organizations) and Daylight MediaOps ISO (1).avif (rendered: ISO 27001 Certified, Information Security Management). Both carry the alt text aicpa soc 2 badge. No trust portal served.”
official 2026-07-27
s16 Daylight customer story: The Motley Fool
“The Motley Fool had worked with established MDR providers for several years.”
official 2026-07-27
s17 Daylight customer story: LiveView Technologies
“Before Daylight, LVT managed security operations internally. The team actively monitored its environment with an employee-based on-call rotation.”
official 2026-07-27
s18 Daylight homepage staffing panel (the experts behind the service)
“0 Junior analysts. Night shifts 10+ Years avg. security experience 4 Regions, follow-the-sun 0 Night shifts”
official 2026-07-27
s19 Daylight homepage architecture panel (business-tool detection coverage)
“Daylight runs detection rules across your business tools: Slack, GitHub, Notion, identity platforms, and more. When a finding surfaces, we investigate. No security alert needed.”
official 2026-07-27
s20 Daylight homepage Gartner Peer Insights panel (vendor-displayed buyer reviews)
“Chief Information Security Officer 50M-1B USD Finance (non-banking)”
official 2026-07-27
s21 Daylight Security Data Lake Service page (retention tiers)
“The last 90 days of telemetry is kept in fully searchable storage, queryable from day one.”
official 2026-07-27
s32 Daylight Security Data Lake Service page (archival tier)
“Beyond 90 days, telemetry shifts to low-cost archival storage. Nothing is deleted.”
official 2026-07-27
s33 Daylight customer story: Antidote Health proof of concept
“The team validated this approach during a proof of concept (POC), where Daylight demonstrated how quickly it could integrate, add new integrations, and deliver value.”
official 2026-07-27
s34 Daylight Managed Agentic MDR service page (telemetry ingestion and expert-maintained detections)
“Detection rules are defined and maintained by our security experts.”
official 2026-07-27
s22 Daylight blog on SOC-as-a-service providers (why it excludes the AI investigation tools)
“They are not a managed service, and therefore not SOC as a Service. Prophet Security and Dropzone AI are examples”
official 2026-07-27
s23 The Times of Israel on Daylight (offices and headcount)
“Headquartered in Tel Aviv with offices in the US and Singapore, the startup employs a global team of 25 workers, including analysts.”
press 2026-07-27
s24 Daylight Managed Agentic MDR service page (how the company labels itself)
“Not a traditional MDR. Not an AI SOC tool.”
official 2026-07-27
s25 SiliconANGLE on Daylight Security's Series A (the individual investors)
“Individual investors included Assaf Rappaport of Wiz Inc., Ofer Smadari, Leonid Belkind and Eldad Livni of Torq Inc., Tamar Bar-Ilan and Yotam Segev of Cyera Inc., Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael of Armis Security Inc., and Ofir Ehrlich of EON SE.”
press 2026-07-27
s26 Daylight about page (founders and how they met)
“Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rudich first met at 18 while serving together in the Army's Intelligence Corps.”
official 2026-07-27
s27 SiliconANGLE on Daylight Security (the vendor's deployment-time claim)
“The company says its system can go live in under an hour and start delivering full coverage, combining the power of AI agents with elite human cyber analysts around the clock.”
press 2026-07-27
s28 Daylight privacy policy (website and marketing data, no subprocessor list)
“We use third party service providers to process your personal information for the purposes outlined above”
official 2026-07-27
s29 Daylight Managed Agentic MDR service page (agent orchestration and the context layer)
“A central orchestrator deploys specialized AI agents, each scoped to a single, specific task.”
official 2026-07-27
s30 Daylight homepage structured review data (customer executive, SIXT)
“"name": "Itay Livne", "jobTitle": "CISO", "worksFor": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "SIXT" }”
official 2026-07-27
s31 Daylight homepage structured review data (customer executive, Burberry)
“"name": "Dean Atkinson", "jobTitle": "CISO", "worksFor": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Burberry" }”
official 2026-07-27
Deep-Dive Sources (37)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 Daylight homepage: Managed Security Services, Rebuilt for SecOps
“Traditional MDR can't keep up with modern threats. AI SOC tools help with investigations, but still require a SOC team. Daylight introduces Managed Agentic Security Services (MASS) for SecOps, a new model where AI agents and security experts run your security operations together.”
official 2026-07-27
s2 Daylight Managed Agentic MDR service page (operating model and accountability)
“From alert ingestion to resolution, Daylight owns the full detection-to-response cycle with contractual accountability.”
official 2026-07-27
s3 Daylight Managed Agentic Threat Hunting service page
“We combine expert methodology with agentic AI execution to run hypothesis-based and IOC-based hunts across your environment.”
official 2026-07-27
s4 Daylight Security Data Lake Service page (retention tiers and the SIEM cost argument)
“Most organizations use a fraction of SIEM functionality but pay for the full platform. The operational burden grows faster than the value.”
official 2026-07-27
s5 Daylight MDR coverage page for AI systems
“Daylight builds detection rules on top of Claude Enterprise's runtime telemetry”
official 2026-07-27
s6 Daylight integrations catalog
“Daylight ensures complete coverage by integrating seamlessly with your entire IT and security stack. Our agentic services can develop new integrations within days”
official 2026-07-27
s7 Daylight about page (founder history and operating model)
“Years later, they reunited at Torq. Eldad was the company's first employee and engineer. Hagai joined as its first product manager.”
official 2026-07-27
s8 SecurityWeek on Daylight's Series A (founding year, headquarters, named customers)
“The company operates across Asia, Europe, and North America and already serves dozens of enterprises, including Cresta, McKinsey Investment Office, and The Motley Fool.”
press 2026-07-27
s9 SiliconANGLE on Daylight Security's Series A (investors and deployment claim)
“Individual investors included Assaf Rappaport of Wiz Inc., Ofer Smadari, Leonid Belkind and Eldad Livni of Torq Inc., Tamar Bar-Ilan and Yotam Segev of Cyera Inc., Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael of Armis Security Inc., and Ofir Ehrlich of EON SE.”
press 2026-07-27
s10 Calcalist CTech on Daylight's Series A (round sequence and total funding)
“The round, coming three months after the company's $7 million Seed round, brings its total funding to $40 million and underscores investor urgency around AI-powered security operations”
press 2026-07-27
s11 The Times of Israel on Daylight (founding, offices, headcount)
“Headquartered in Tel Aviv with offices in the US and Singapore, the startup employs a global team of 25 workers, including analysts.”
press 2026-07-27
s12 MSSP Alert on Daylight's funding (roadmap modules and the vendor's false-positive claim)
“The company's platform blends automation with analyst oversight to reduce false positives by up to 90%, providing continuous detection and response across hybrid environments.”
press 2026-07-27
s13 Daylight customer story: Antidote Health
“Antidote Health is a fast-growing health tech company delivering modern health insurance solutions in the U.S. Operating in a highly regulated environment, the company must balance rapid innovation with strong security and compliance requirements.”
official 2026-07-27
s14 Daylight blog comparing SOC-as-a-service providers (the vendor's own competitive set)
“Expel, ReliaQuest, Arctic Wolf, eSentire, Secureworks Taegis MDR, and Red Canary sit here.”
official 2026-07-27
s15 Daylight homepage footer attestation probe 2026-07-27 (badge filenames and rendered pixels, trust. and security. subdomains, /trust and /compliance paths)
“Footer badge files SOC 2.svg (rendered: AICPA SOC 2, SOC for Service Organizations) and Daylight MediaOps ISO (1).avif (rendered: ISO 27001 Certified, Information Security Management). Both carry the alt text aicpa soc 2 badge. No trust portal served.”
official 2026-07-27
s16 Daylight customer story: The Motley Fool
“The Motley Fool had worked with established MDR providers for several years.”
official 2026-07-27
s17 Daylight customer story: LiveView Technologies
“Standing up an equivalent operation internally would mean building a SOC with detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response”
official 2026-07-27
s18 Daylight blog on its seed round (headcount and hiring plan at launch)
“Daylight currently employs about 20 people and plans to hire more engineers and sales staff in the coming months.”
official 2026-07-27
s19 Daylight homepage staffing panel (the experts behind the service)
“0 Junior analysts. Night shifts 10+ Years avg. security experience 4 Regions, follow-the-sun 0 Night shifts”
official 2026-07-27
s20 Daylight homepage architecture panel (business-tool detection coverage)
“Daylight runs detection rules across your business tools: Slack, GitHub, Notion, identity platforms, and more. When a finding surfaces, we investigate. No security alert needed.”
official 2026-07-27
s21 Daylight homepage Gartner Peer Insights panel (vendor-displayed buyer reviews)
“Chief Information Security Officer 50M-1B USD Finance (non-banking)”
official 2026-07-27
s22 Daylight Security Data Lake Service page (retention tiers and customer query access)
“The last 90 days of telemetry is kept in fully searchable storage, queryable from day one.”
official 2026-07-27
s35 Daylight Security Data Lake Service page (archival tier)
“Beyond 90 days, telemetry shifts to low-cost archival storage. Nothing is deleted.”
official 2026-07-27
s36 Daylight customer story: Antidote Health proof of concept
“The team validated this approach during a proof of concept (POC), where Daylight demonstrated how quickly it could integrate, add new integrations, and deliver value.”
official 2026-07-27
s37 Daylight Managed Agentic MDR service page (telemetry ingestion and expert-maintained detections)
“Detection rules are defined and maintained by our security experts.”
official 2026-07-27
s23 Daylight blog on SOC-as-a-service providers (the managed providers it groups itself against)
“Expel, ReliaQuest, Arctic Wolf, eSentire, Secureworks Taegis MDR, and Red Canary sit here.”
official 2026-07-27
s24 Daylight about page (go-to-market leadership)
“Maya Rotenberg VP of Marketing Eric Byrd VP of Sales Lior Liberman Head of Product”
official 2026-07-27
s25 Daylight about page (investor endorsement)
“Enrique Salem Partner at Bain Capital Ventures”
official 2026-07-27
s26 Daylight privacy policy (website and marketing data, no subprocessor list)
“We use third party service providers to process your personal information for the purposes outlined above”
official 2026-07-27
s27 Daylight integrations catalog (category taxonomy)
“All AI Security Automation Tools Cloud Security & Infrastructure Communication & Ticketing Data Security Email Security Endpoint Detection & Response Enterprise Resource Management Identity Security & Access Management Network Security SIEM & Log Aggregation Threat Intelligence Enrichment”
official 2026-07-27
s28 SiliconANGLE on Daylight Security's Series A (lead investors)
“The Series A round was led by Craft Ventures Management, with Bain Capital Ventures, Maple VC and a number of individual investors also participating.”
press 2026-07-27
s29 Daylight about page (founders and how they met)
“Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rudich first met at 18 while serving together in the Army's Intelligence Corps.”
official 2026-07-27
s30 The Times of Israel on Daylight (founding year, founders, military background)
“Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Daylight was founded in late 2024 by Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rodich, who met during their military service in the Israel Defense Forces' vaunted technological unit Unit 8200.”
press 2026-07-27
s31 SiliconANGLE on Daylight Security (the vendor's deployment-time claim)
“The company says its system can go live in under an hour and start delivering full coverage, combining the power of AI agents with elite human cyber analysts around the clock.”
press 2026-07-27
s32 Daylight Managed Agentic MDR service page (agent orchestration and the context layer)
“A central orchestrator deploys specialized AI agents, each scoped to a single, specific task.”
official 2026-07-27
s33 Daylight homepage structured review data (customer executive, SIXT)
“"name": "Itay Livne", "jobTitle": "CISO", "worksFor": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "SIXT" }”
official 2026-07-27
s34 Daylight homepage Gartner Peer Insights panel (largest displayed reviewer band)
“IT Security & Risk Management Associate 1B-10B USD Software”
official 2026-07-27

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