Israeli Startups Dominate Fortune's Cyber 60 List With 29 Companies

Israeli cybersecurity continues to dominate the global information security industry, with nearly half of the companies featured in Fortune magazine's prestigious Cyber 60 list founded by Israeli entrepreneurs.

Now in its fourth year, the list evaluates venture-backed cybersecurity companies worldwide. This year's selection included 29 Israeli firms out of more than 300 nominees, assessed based on growth pace, revenue scale, and business performance. Local dominance was particularly striking among younger cohorts: 6 out of 20 companies in the growth category are Israeli, 11 out of 20 in the early-growth category (55%), and a record 12 out of 20 companies in the early stage, accounting for 60% of the category.

Next-Generation AI Threats and Defense

The technological mix of the selected companies reflects the cybersecurity industry's rapid shift toward addressing next-generation threats, foremost among them the introduction of autonomous artificial intelligence agents into enterprise environments. These agents, which operate tools, read sensitive data, and execute changes in business systems on behalf of employees, have created entirely new attack surfaces. In response, numerous Israeli startups on the list are developing solutions for continuous monitoring of agent operations, prevention of corporate data leakage, and defensive AI models that work alongside security teams to analyze exposures and investigate threats.

Growth and Early-Stage Leaders

The growth stage features larger, established enterprise infrastructure firms. Prominent among them is Cato Networks, founded by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz, which converges enterprise networking and security into a global cloud platform serving more than 4,800 customers with over $415 million in annual recurring revenue. Alongside it stands Island, founded by Dan Amiga and Mike Fey, which began by developing an enterprise browser and expanded its activities to employee and AI agent action control, access management, and data protection after raising $400 million at a $6.4 billion valuation. The Israeli growth list also includes Cyera, Eon, Torq, and Upwind Security.

The early-growth stage highlights Noma Security, founded in 2023 by Niv Braun and Alon Tron, which has raised $132 million to date. The company focuses on protecting AI applications and agents throughout their lifecycle through security testing, permission controls, and real-time intervention in anomalous operations. This category also features Blink Ops, Clutch Security, Descope, Irregular, Linx Security, Ocean, Onyx Security, Reco, 7AI, and Vega.

The early stage is led by emerging companies with notable funding rounds. Neo, founded by Nick Warner, Shlomi Salem, and Eran Shirazi, raised $100 million to develop a platform that monitors software and agents with autonomous execution capabilities, allowing security teams to require human approval before critical actions. Corma Labs, founded by Alon Fluda, raised $60 million in a seed round led by Sequoia Capital to develop dedicated foundational models for defensive cybersecurity. Act Security, founded by Jonathan Langer, Itay Kirschenbaum, Stefan Goldberg, and Elay Pelach, also raised $60 million to help close attack paths and eliminate unnecessary cloud access.

Rounding out the early-stage group are companies such as Bold Security, founded by Nati Hazut, Hadar Krasner, and Omri Melis, which raised $40 million to protect endpoint computers using local AI models that detect data leakage to AI tools. Astelia, founded by Noah Noy, Nadav Ostrovsky, and Roi Reguan, raised $35 million to map vulnerability exploitation conditions across the network, alongside A Security, Air Security (AIR), Artemis Security, Cylake, Frontier Security, Glow, and Oz Security.