Aryon Security, an Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup founded by former IDF cyber unit veterans, raised $25M in a Series A round; Investors include Ehud Barak, Assi Cohen and Omer Adam, bringing the company's total funding to $38Mynet| Related TopicsIsraeli cybersecurity startup Aryon Security, founded only about a year and a half ago, has raised 25 million dollars in a Series A round, with investors including former prime minister and IDF chief of staff Ehud Barak, actor Assi Cohen and singer Omer Adam.The round was led by U.S.-based cybersecurity-focused venture capital firm BrightMind and Skinos Ventures, the new investment fund of serial cybersecurity entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer, one of the founders of Check Point. Also participating were publicly traded software company Datadog, venture capital firms Viola and Blumberg Capital, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, Armis founders Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael, and real estate entrepreneur Assi Touchmair.2 View gallery Israeli cybersecurity startup Aryon Security (Photo: Nadav Margalit)The company's total funding since its establishment in late 2024 now stands at 38 million dollars .Aryon develops a security platform for cloud environments, the remote servers where organizations store their data. The problem it seeks to solve is a familiar one: when an organization migrates to the cloud, it must manage tens of thousands of system configurations, and even a small misconfiguration can create a security vulnerability that attackers may exploit within minutes.Until now, traditional security systems typically detected vulnerabilities only after they had already been created and then attempted to remediate them. Aryon says its platform takes a different approach by preventing vulnerabilities from emerging in the first place.2 View gallery Singer Omer Adam and former prime minister and IDF chief of staff Ehud Barak (Photos: Kobi Koaneks, Yair Sagi)The company's three founders — Ron Arbel, Ariel Litmanovich and Yair Ladizhensky — are alumni of Matzov, one of the IDF's cybersecurity units. They previously worked on securing Project Nimbus, Israel's national cloud infrastructure project, and say that experience exposed the gap between the level of security organizations expect and what is actually achieved in practice.Aryon already has paying customers, including U.S. banks, an international shipping company and a U.S. mortgage lender. The company currently employs 44 people and is continuing to hire."Organizations can no longer afford to discover risks only after attackers have already penetrated their systems," said Arbel. "Aryon makes prevention practical even in the world's most complex cloud environments."Comments