Cybersecurity startup Cylake has launched, raising $45 million to build an artificial intelligence-driven platform. Founded by industry veterans, Cylake targets organizations demanding full control over their on-premises or private cloud environments with complete data sovereignty.
The platform's AI-native architecture keeps security data and analytics within the customer's controlled environment, aggregating telemetry from across infrastructure, applications, and security systems. This approach contrasts with cloud-hosted analytics platforms, addressing regulatory and policy conflicts around data sovereignty.
Cylake collects and consolidates operational and security data locally, processing it with machine learning models to identify abnormal patterns. This ensures sensitive datasets remain within the customer's infrastructure, rather than being exported to external services.
The platform offers visibility by correlating events and telemetry streams, detecting security incidents, generating alerts, and assisting investigations. It's ideal for government agencies, critical infrastructure operators, and regulated industries like finance and healthcare.
"Cylake is for institutions where maintaining full control over data and operations is not optional," stated CEO Nir Zuk.
The seed funding was led by Greylock Partners, with other investors participating. Greylock partner Asheem Chandna noted, "The next generation of cybersecurity will be AI-native, agentic and built on holistic data and context."