Lior Suchard and Asi Cohen Invest in Cyber Startup Huskeys, Which Raised $27 Million

The Israeli cyber company Huskeys has raised $27 million in a funding round led by the American investment giant Blackstone. The round also included participation from Skinos Ventures, the investment fund of Shlomo Kramer and Yishai Yovel, the investment funds of cyber companies Okta and Zscaler, and Merlin Ventures. Investments from Okta and Zscaler are accompanied by strategic partnerships between the firms.

Senior figures from the global cyber industry, including representatives from Google, Microsoft, Palo Alto, Cloudflare, AWS, Check Point, and Intel, also participated. Among the private investors are actor and comedian Asi Cohen and international mentalist Lior Suchard, who also serves as an advisor to the company. This funding brings the company's total capital raised to $35 million.

Huskeys was founded in 2025 by Itai Gafni (CEO) and Roi Weisfeld (CTO), graduates of Unit 8200. Since its public unveiling, the company has expanded its business operations and client base, which includes brands such as Hugging Face, TikTok, Legoland, Ro, and Blackstone. It manages significant volumes of internet traffic for global organizations.

The company operates at the WAF (Web Application Firewall) layer, a technology invented in Israel nearly 30 years ago. Huskeys presents a platform that adds an Agentic AI layer on top of this legacy infrastructure, moving it into a new era.

Itai Gafni, co-founder and CEO of Huskeys, stated:

«Five months ago, we emerged from stealth with a clear vision to build a new network security category for the AI era. Artificial intelligence has changed the way the internet works, bringing with it new security risks and potential damage to organizational revenues. We believe that in the near future, most identities operating on the internet will be autonomous agents, and organizations will require a new infrastructure that can identify, secure, and manage them.»