Israeli cybersecurity firm SentinelOne is about to amass Israeli startup Immediate Safety, sources inform “Globes,” for an estimated $250-300 million.
This might be as much as 5 occasions the valuation of $60 million that Immediate Safety obtained in it most up-to-date financing spherical in November 2024, in accordance with PitchBook. These cashing in on the exit embrace Hetz Ventures, which led Immediate Safety’s seed spherical in August 2023 and Soar Capital, which led the Collection A spherical final November. In complete the Tel Aviv-based firm raised simply $23 million.
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That is a formidable cybersecurity exit, with out the involvement of enormous Israeli enterprise capital funds, however with a mix of small funds that invested modest quantities in an AI cybersecurity firm. Immediate Safety was based by Test Level and Orca Safety veterans CEO Itamar Golan and CTO Lior Drihem to assist organizations handle generative AI dangers and determine, analyze, and safe vulnerabilities in LLM-based functions. The corporate maps worker use of AI instruments, together with unauthorized instruments within the group, screens their use and enforces the group’s guidelines, as a way to forestall leakage of organizational knowledge to the AI instruments, or to stop malicious queries (prompts) on the group’s licensed AI fashions, with the purpose of damaging its belief.
Immediate Safety competes with Israeli firm Lasso Safety in addition to Apex Safety, which was bought to Tenable in Could for $105 million.
SentinelOne was based in 2013 by CEO Tomer Weingarten, Almog Cohen and Ehud Shamir, and has been one of many quickest rising cybersecurity firms over the previous decade, amongst different issues, attributable to AI-based expertise that detects assaults based mostly on behavioral patterns. The corporate has about 2,400 workers and operates from a number of nations, together with Israel, the place it has one in every of its important improvement facilities. SentinelOne is traded on Wall Avenue with a market cap of $6.1 billion.
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