Former Unit 8200 Officers Raise $34 Million for Agentic SecOps Startup Mave

What happened

The funding announced on October 22, 2026 comprises $6 million seed funding (raised at the time of founding) and a new $28 million Series A (an early stage of company funding) round led by Red Dot Capital Partners, with participation from Lumir Growth Partners. Founded in 2025 by Unit 8200 alumni, Tel Aviv-based Mave operates with AI agents (AI that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering one question) to investigate alerts across existing security stacks.

Cybersecurity Funding Former Unit 8200 Officers Raise $34 Million for Agentic SecOps Startup Mave Founded in 2025 by Unit 8200 alumni, Tel Aviv-based Mave operates with AI agents to investigate alerts across existing security stacks. Dell Technologies Capital and Emerge Ventures, who led Mave’s $6 million seed round, also participated in the Series A round.

The funding will be used to accelerate Mave’s frontier AI research, strengthen the firm’s enterprise product lines and grow the company’s global presence. Current staff levels are around 30, but this will be increased with new hires focused on go-to-market and AI research roles.

Mave employs AI to solve some of the problems created by AI. Firstly, adversarial use of AI has dramatically increased the speed of attacks .

At the same time, internal use of AI generates huge volumes of useful data that could be used to counter the attacks – if the security operations team could see, manage and act on the data with sufficient speed. “Enterprise security teams are overwhelmed by huge amounts of data and dozens of security tools, and still cannot respond fast enough when a real incident occurs,” explains Mave.

Put simply, the traditional SIEM defenses cannot keep up with the speed of the increasingly automated kill chain used by AI-assisted attackers. Current security stacks may see the attack but cannot present the data to the security team in a useful form and speed.