Cyera raises $400 million from Goldman Sachs at $12 billion valuation to secure enterprise AI agents

Cyera has raised another $400 million from Goldman Sachs Alternatives, extending a Series G that values the data security company at more than $12 billion and pushing its fundraising since June 2025 to roughly $1.94 billion.

The funding comes just three months after Cyera raised $600 million in June at a $12 billion valuation, as the AI boom drives fresh demand for data security and controls around autonomous agents.

The deal comes as AI agents move deeper into corporate systems. These agents can query databases, call software tools, use digital identities and act with far less human involvement than traditional enterprise applications. That creates a security problem that looks very different from protecting employees logging into apps.

Cyera wants to sit directly in that gap.

The New York-based company is building a security platform that connects sensitive enterprise data with the identities, machines and AI agents that can reach it. Goldman Sachs’ investment gives Cyera more capital to develop that strategy, grow internationally and extend its work with U.S. federal customers.

“Global 2000 enterprises are telling us the same thing: they need to trust what AI agents can see and do before they can scale them,” Cyera co-founder and CEO Yotam Segev said. “AI infrastructure is moving faster than the security architecture around it. This investment accelerates our work to bring data and identity together, so enterprises can give agents access with confidence and keep that access aligned with business intent.”

AI agents are creating a new security problem

Enterprise security was largely built around people, devices, and conventional applications. AI agents complicate that model. An agent may inherit permissions, access sensitive records, interact with multiple systems, and take actions at machine speed.

Cyera has been broadening its product portfolio around that shift. Its Agent Guardian product tracks agent activity, including tool calls, database queries, and actions. Cyera Endpoint extends monitoring to local AI tools running on employee devices.

Founded in 2021 by CEO Yotam Segev and CTO Tamar Bar-Ilan, Cyera has emerged as one of the fastest-growing companies in the data security market. Both founders are alumni of Israel’s elite Talpiot program and previously served in the military’s cyber intelligence Unit 8200, a group known for producing many of the country’s cybersecurity entrepreneurs.

The company’s biggest move came through its $1 billion acquisition of Oasis Security, a specialist in non-human identity management. The combination brings data security and machine identity controls into the same platform, giving Cyera a way to map sensitive information against the humans, services and autonomous agents capable of accessing it.

That strategy is attracting serious investor attention. The Wall Street Journal reported that Cyera’s latest financing extends the $600 million Series G announced in June and brings funding raised since June 2025 to $1.94 billion. The company has completed six acquisitions and now employs more than 1,500 people.

A $12 billion bet on AI security

Cyera says annual recurring revenue has tripled for three consecutive years and that 20% of Fortune 500 companies use its technology. Those figures come from the company, but the scale of its fundraising shows investors are placing large bets on security becoming one of the defining infrastructure layers around enterprise AI.

Goldman Sachs is making that bet directly.

“Securing AI will be one of the defining categories in enterprise technology over the next decade,” said Irit Kahan, Managing Director within Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. “Cyera was the first to bring data and identity together, and as agents multiply faster than anyone can track, the gap between what they’re trusted to do and what they can actually reach is becoming increasingly dangerous. Cyera’s technology, customer traction, and execution position it to become the platform enterprises rely on to secure AI.”

The financing gives Cyera room to keep spending on product development, acquisitions, and overseas growth without rushing toward public markets. The Wall Street Journal reported that the fresh capital gives the company more flexibility around the timing of a potential IPO.

More than the headline valuation, the deal points to a larger shift in cybersecurity. AI agents are becoming a new class of enterprise user, and companies are starting to spend heavily on controlling what those users can see and do.

If that transition continues, the next major security platform may be built less around protecting a network perimeter and more around governing access across humans, software, and autonomous AI.

Cyera founders (Photo credit: Natasha Zeriker)