Cyera raises $600M at $12B valuation on AI agent security infrastructure play
Data security startup Cyera has closed a $600 million Series G round led by Evolution Equity Partners at a $12 billion valuation, quadrupling its worth in 18 months from a $3 billion November 2024 baseline. The round adds Temasek, Cyberstarts, and existing backers Accel, Blackstone, Coatue, and Spark Capital to a total capital base exceeding $2 billion. Founded in 2021 by Israeli military veterans Yotam Segev (CEO) and Tamar Bar-Ilan (CTO), Cyera sells Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) software that maps sensitive data, enforces access controls, and now governs AI agent interactions—identifying which data AI systems can reach and what they can do with it.
The valuation implies ~80x ARR on reported $150 million, a stretch even for security infrastructure but defensible if Cyera scales to $500M+ ARR over 3–4 years. The company has tripled ARR for three consecutive years, grown to 1,500 employees across 18 countries, completed five acquisitions (Ryft, Genie most recent), and shipped over 100 product features spanning DSPM, identity, DLP, and agentic security. Fortune 500 penetration grew 353% year-over-year, with 20% of Fortune 500 now customers.
The market urgency is real: 68% of enterprises cannot distinguish human from AI agent activity in their own systems, creating a governance gap that stalls AI adoption. Cyera positions itself as the 'trust layer' for the agentic era—automating classification of exabytes of data with 95%+ precision and enabling enterprises to audit AI agents' data access without disrupting pipelines.
For infrastructure architects provisioning large AI workforces, Cyera represents the first utility-grade data-centric access control that operates at AI agent granularity. The company's 80x valuation is a bet that controlling data visibility becomes as foundational to AI infrastructure as compute or networking. Competitive dynamics: watch Rubrik and Varonis in public markets, and private peers like Genie (now acquired) and emerging players in agentic security.
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- businesswire.com
“announced its latest funding round of $600 million, quadrupling the company's valuation over the last 18 months to $12 billion”
- businesswire.com
“In 2026, 68% of organizations cannot tell the difference between human activity and AI agent activity inside their own systems”
- news.crunchbase.com
“The largest Q2 funding recipient was Cyera, a developer of AI-enabled enterprise security tools with a particular focus on AI agents. The New York company raised $600 million at a $12 billion valuation in a June round led by Evolution Equity Partners”