alt Hacker NewsLooking at the Israeli startup scene, there is a huge surge in cybersecurity investments (especially agentic security) in the last couple of months, looks very abnormal.
Looking at the Israeli startup scene, there is a huge surge in cybersecurity investments (especially agentic security) in the last couple of months, looks very abnormal.
There's nothing abnormal about that.
These were all funded 2-3 years ago (heck I participated in some of these). Companies only go out of stealth when they are publicly announcing their Series A (usually right around the time of a major buyer event like BSides/RSA or DEFCON/Blackhat.
Funding rounds usually happen around 5-6 months before they get announced on TechCrunch or Calcalistech becuase such information are a signal to competition about a specific approach. It's also a massive distraction from building, because then you have to deal with media, press releases, and actually have a product marketing team. You don't want to do this until you can hire a couple PMs and PMMs (which is usually around the seed-to-series A transition becuase you will have hit the $5M ARR mark by then).
This how stuff is done here in SV as well and has been for decades.