Cyata Emerges from Stealth with $8.5M to Secure the Rise of the AI Workforce

Built by an elite cybersecurity team, the platform discovers, monitors, and controls AI agent access to enterprise systems and data

TEL AVIV, Israel, July 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyata, the first control plane for agentic identities, today announced its launch from stealth with $8.5 million in seed funding led by TLV Partners. The company addresses the critical security gap created by AI agents gaining unrestricted access to enterprise systems without governance, oversight, or identity management.

As organizations embrace AI agents to boost productivity, a new security crisis is emerging. These digital employees are writing code, accessing sensitive databases, triggering automated actions - even moving money, all while operating outside traditional identity and access management frameworks. Unlike human employees who have HR records and attend security training, or service accounts that follow predictable patterns, AI agents are dynamic: they can spawn instantly, fan out into parallel workflows, and make autonomous decisions that can include hallucinations and risky judgment calls. Traditional identity stacks aren't designed to manage these actors, leaving organizations blind to what their agents are doing and unable to enforce appropriate controls.

Cyata brings comprehensive visibility and identity control to AI copilots, chatbots, and task-driven agents through three integrated capabilities: The platform provides automated discovery that continuously scans both desktop and SaaS environments to find all AI identities and their permissions, assess their risk, and map each to its human owner and effective privileges. It delivers forensic observability that creates detailed audit trails of agentic AI activity, including the unique ability to capture intent by requiring agents to justify their reasoning in real-time. The platform also enforces granular access control, applying permissions just-in-time while maintaining human-in-the-loop approvals for sensitive operations.

"AI agents represent the biggest leap in enterprise technology since the cloud - a self-scaling, sleepless workforce that codes, analyzes, and executes in seconds," said Shahar Tal, CEO and co-founder of Cyata. "We focus on the actors, not the LLMs - because agents, not models, are the ones making decisions and triggering risk. Cyata gives security teams identity-grade controls built specifically for AI agents, so they can unlock their power - without losing control."

"AI agents represent an enormous opportunity, but with that opportunity comes significant risks," said Brian Sack, Partner at TLV Partners. "Agent adoption is accelerating rapidly, and what we're seeing today will be tenfold by next year – in both usage and the risks that come with it. At TLV Partners, our generalist approach often leads us to invest in cybersecurity companies based on trends we identify outside the traditional security vertical, and the rise of AI agents is exactly that. Cyata's team has already reshaped the digital forensics space, and now they're applying that same deep expertise to secure the emerging AI agent ecosystem. They're uniquely positioned to define and lead this critical new category before organizations face potentially catastrophic breaches."

"Identity tools have come a long way in securing human and service accounts, but AI agents introduce a new layer of complexity," said Robert Burns, CSO at Thales Cybersecurity Products. "Their ability to act autonomously, scale rapidly, and interact across systems challenges existing models in new ways. Cyata's focused work in this space highlights risks that many organizations haven't yet fully surfaced — and it's contributing meaningfully to how the industry responds to the next generation of identity challenges."

Cyata was founded by veterans of Unit 8200, Cellebrite, and Check Point - security research leaders with years of experience reverse engineering and uncovering critical vulnerabilities, and shaping real-world defenses. CEO Shahar Tal is a 20-year cybersecurity veteran who led malware and vulnerability research at Check Point and spent eight years at Cellebrite, leading the company's research labs before transitioning to corporate business development. VP R&D Dror Roth is a renowned Unit 8200 researcher who was a technology leader at Cellebrite and Talon. CTO Baruch Weizman served as section head at Unit 8200 before leading core teams at two cybersecurity startups. The company has assembled a team of 12 elite cybersecurity professionals in Tel Aviv, with 60% of management coming from digital forensics leader Cellebrite. The seed round included participation from notable angel investors, including two former CEOs of Cellebrite, Ron Serber and Yossi Carmil.

About Cyata
Cyata is building the control plane for agentic identities that think, act, and scale faster than any human ever could. The company enables organizations to safely harness the power and productivity gains of agentic AI while maintaining security and compliance. Cyata is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, visit https://cyata.ai

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