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Israeli startup Mave raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot Capital Partners to deploy AI agents that investigate security alerts, bringing total funding to $34M.
Key Takeaways
- Mave closed a $28M Series A led by Red Dot Capital Partners, with Lumir Growth Partners also investing.
- Total funding reaches $34M, including a $6M seed round led by Dell Technologies Capital and Emerge Ventures.
- Annual recurring revenue grew more than 400% in six months; the valuation is undisclosed.
Lead
Mave, an Israeli cybersecurity startup founded in 2025, announced a $28M Series A in late October 2026. Red Dot Capital Partners led the round, and Lumir Growth Partners joined it. The company previously raised a $6M seed round led by Dell Technologies Capital and Emerge Ventures, so it has raised $34M in roughly a year of existence. Mave did not disclose its valuation, current revenue or customer count.
What Does Mave Actually Build?
Mave builds an AI platform that automates the investigation of security alerts across the tools a company already runs. Its agents examine alerts, filter out false positives, link related attacks and carry out approved response actions, such as isolating a machine or disabling a compromised account.
The company says it does this without centralizing customer data in a new repository. That is a deliberate contrast with SIEM products, which require organizations to pipe logs into one place. Mave combines purpose-built workflows with fine-tuned small language models and larger language models, a mix meant to hold down cost and keep behavior predictable.
The product targets the security operations center, where analysts triage large alert queues, most of them benign. Mave competes for that work with a growing set of AI-driven SOC automation vendors, as well as with the automation features that incumbent platform vendors are adding to their own products.
Who Is Behind the Company?
CEO Raziel Oren previously led go-to-market at Wing Security, and CTO Guy Eshel was an early employee and later VP of R&D at Alterya, which Chainalysis acquired. Both served in Israel's Unit 8200 intelligence unit. The pairing of a go-to-market operator and a technical lead who has been through an exit is a familiar profile for Israeli cyber seed rounds that scale quickly.
How Fast Is Mave Growing, and What Does the Round Imply?
Mave reports that its annual recurring revenue rose more than 400% over the past six months and that it is signing contracts worth seven figures. The company says it works with Fortune 50 companies and global managed security service providers, and that its software protects hundreds of end customers in regulated financial and healthcare environments.
Growth percentages from a small base are easy to produce, and Mave has not published the underlying revenue figure. The more informative signal is the sequence: a $6M seed followed by a $28M Series A within about a year of founding. The size of the Series A is more than four times the seed, which suggests investors are paying for early enterprise traction and for the speed of deployment in security-sensitive sectors rather than for a finished product.
Enterprise buyers in finance and healthcare tend to move slowly on tools that can take automated action on production systems. Closing seven-figure contracts in that setting, if the figures hold, is the stronger part of the pitch. The harder test is retention once customers have lived with autonomous response actions for a full renewal cycle.
What Will Mave Do With the Money?
Mave plans to more than double its workforce, with hiring concentrated in go-to-market and AI research. It will keep its development center in Israel and use it as a base for international expansion. The company currently has about 30 employees, so the plan implies a headcount of 60 or more.
Spending on research matters as much as sales headcount. Attackers are also adopting AI to speed up reconnaissance and phishing, which compresses the time defenders have to respond. Vendors in this category are competing on how many alert types they can resolve reliably without a human check.
What Comes Next for AI-Driven Security Operations?
AI-driven SOC automation is moving from pilot projects to budgeted deployments, and funding rounds like this one reflect that shift. Two outcomes are plausible for startups in the category. Platform vendors may absorb the capability through acquisitions or built-in features, as has happened repeatedly in security. Alternatively, independent vendors that sit across many tools may keep an advantage with customers who run mixed environments and resist single-vendor lock-in.
Mave's approach of working across existing tools without centralizing data fits the second path. Its exposure is the first: a larger vendor with direct access to the same telemetry can offer comparable automation at a lower marginal price.
Outlook
Mave enters its second year with $34M raised, a lead investor in Red Dot Capital Partners and a hiring plan that will roughly double its team. The next milestones to watch are disclosed revenue, customer concentration among its Fortune 50 accounts and whether its autonomous actions hold up in regulated production environments. Valuation and revenue remain undisclosed, which limits outside assessment of the round.
