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Israeli startup Mave closed a $28M Series A led by Red Dot Capital Partners, taking its total funding to $34M for an agentic security-operations platform.
Key Takeaways
- Mave raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot Capital Partners; total funding is $34M after a $6M seed.
- Dell Technologies Capital, Emerge Ventures and Lumir Growth Partners are also backing the company.
- Mave reports ARR growth above 400% year over year and seven-figure deals; valuation is undisclosed.
Lead
Mave, a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup founded in 2025, announced on October 22, 2026 that it had raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot Capital Partners. Lumir Growth Partners joined the round, and seed backers Dell Technologies Capital and Emerge Ventures also took part. The Series A follows a $6M seed co-led by Dell Technologies Capital and Emerge Ventures, which brings total funding to $34M. The company did not disclose its valuation.
What Does Mave Actually Sell?
Mave sells an AI platform that investigates security alerts the way a human analyst in a security operations center (SOC) would. The software connects to a company's existing security tools, queries each in its native language and reconciles the results. It then filters out false positives, spots patterns across related alerts and runs response actions within rules set by the customer.
The design choice that separates it from most rivals is that it does not copy customer data into a central store. Many SIEM-style products require ingestion into a separate, often costly database. Mave reaches into each tool where the data already sits, which removes one line item from the security budget and one migration from the sales cycle.
The company says it has isolated compromised systems and disabled compromised identities during live attacks. Response actions run only within preset rules or with human approval, according to the company.
Who Is Behind the Company?
CEO Raziel Oren and CTO Guy Eshel founded Mave after serving in the Israel Defense Forces' Unit 8200. Oren, a former captain, previously led go-to-market at Wing Security. Eshel, a former major, was the first employee at Alterya and rose to VP of R&D before Chainalysis acquired the company in January 2025.
That résumé matters for the round. Eshel has already seen one security-adjacent startup through an exit, and Oren has sold into enterprise security buyers. Investors in a company this young are largely underwriting the founders and early customer traction.
How Strong Is the Traction?
Mave reports ARR growth above 400% year over year, seven-figure deals and customers that include Fortune 50 companies and global managed security service providers. The company says those providers protect hundreds of their own clients. It also names regulated financial services and healthcare environments among its deployments, and one report puts the platform in more than 200 SOCs.
These figures come from the company, and no absolute revenue number has been disclosed. A 400% growth rate off a first-year base can mean a modest dollar figure. Still, seven-figure contracts at a company founded in 2025 suggest buyers are moving AI triage from pilot to budgeted line item.
Why Is Capital Flowing to AI SOC Tools?
Investors are funding AI SOC tools because alert volume has outrun the staffing of most security teams. Analysts spend much of their time dismissing false positives, and attackers move faster than manual triage allows. Oren put it plainly in the announcement: "Attackers do not wait."
The category is crowded. Startups pitching autonomous or semi-autonomous SOC analysts have multiplied, and incumbent SIEM and XDR vendors are adding their own AI agents. A $28M Series A is large for a company of this age, which signals that investors see a land grab and are willing to pay for speed. It also raises the bar: Mave will need to show that its no-ingestion architecture holds up against vendors that own the data layer.
What Will the Money Fund?
Mave plans to spend the funds on frontier AI research, enterprise product development, global expansion and hiring in go-to-market and AI research. The company has said it expects to roughly double its headcount, which stands at between 20 and 30 people depending on the count. The platform is generally available.
Outlook
Mave enters the AI SOC market with a $34M war chest, a Tier-1 Israeli investor lead and a technical argument against data centralization. The open questions are revenue scale, retention among large enterprise buyers and how well autonomous response actions hold up under audit in regulated sectors. The next test is whether the claimed growth survives contact with larger procurement cycles and with incumbents shipping comparable agents.
