Tel Aviv, Israel-based provider of a cloud runtime security suite, Sweet Security raised USD 12 million in seed funding. The round took place on August 9, 2023. Glilot Capital Partners led the financing for the firm. Meanwhile, CyberArk Ventures and angel investors such as Gerhard Eschelbeck, former CISO at Google and Travis McPeak, who led product security at Databricks, also joined in the funding.
What the co-founder of the company has to add
Dror Kashti, co-founder and CEO, Sweet Security, said, “Cybersecurity’ and ‘delightful’ are not words that normally go hand in hand, but we want our customers to use them in the same sentence when talking about our solution. We feel our timing is right to make that happen. If SOC and IR teams don’t have to constantly tune their security products or sift through mountains of alerts, they’ll execute at a higher level, and they’ll be happier. Cloud detection and response may be complex, but it doesn’t have to be painful.”
What the investors have to comment
Kobi Samboursly, Founding Partner, Glilot Capital Partners, further said, “Investing in Sweet Security was a no-brainer. First, it’s addressing an increasingly problematic cloud security gap – cloud runtime defence. Second, Dror, Eyal and Orel bring superpowers to the table: the depth and breadth of their cloud security expertise and their ability to build and mentor talented, high-performing teams. Sweet is off to a great start, and we look forward to supporting its success.”
What the other experts have to say
Michael Shaulov, co-founder and CEO, Fireblocks, further said, “As a large, cloud-first company, our business relies on our ability to protect our customers’ digital assets. We needed a runtime security suite that matched our scale, speed, and technology. Sweet’s technology provides real-time security detection & prevention capabilities to our cloud workloads and, importantly, with minimal business interruption. Its insights on connectivity, visibility to our cloud’s topology, and automatic classification of real-time threats is a force multiplier to our Security Operation Center and our DevSecOps teams.”
In addition, Srinath Kuruvadi, Managing Director, Head of Cloud Security, JPMorgan Chase & Co, said, “Sweet’s vision for cloud runtime security is spot on, with a deep understanding of how cloud attacks unfold, and critically, enables defenders to be much more effective at containing them. Attacks against cloud workloads are only going to increase in frequency and sophistication. The industry needs comprehensive security solutions to face them, and Sweet is driving this shift with its extraordinary vision and expertise.”
About Sweet Security
Dror Kashti and Eyal Fisher launched the company in 2023. Sweet’s Cloud Runtime Security Suite delivers first-to-market capabilities for defending cloud workloads, shifting cloud security right.
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