Dux secures $9 million Seed as Talpiot alumni target AI-accelerated cyber risk
The startup says defenders need environment-specific answers in minutes, not weeks.
Israeli cybersecurity startup Dux, which is developing an agentic exposure management platform, announced on Tuesday that it has raised a $9 million Seed round led by Redpoint, TLV Partners and Maple Capital, with participation from senior cybersecurity executives affiliated with CrowdStrike, Okta and Armis.
The company aims to tackle the widening gap between how quickly vulnerabilities are exploited and how slowly organizations can realistically respond. According to Mandiant, the average time between the disclosure of a vulnerability and its exploitation has shrunk dramatically, falling from 32 days to just five in the past two years. More recently, Anthropic documented what it described as the first real-world cyber-espionage campaign in which attackers used agentic AI not only to assist human operators, but to execute attacks autonomously.
Against this backdrop, Dux is betting that traditional vulnerability management models, built around periodic scans, long remediation cycles and manual prioritization, are no longer viable. Instead, the company has built what it describes as an agentic exposure management platform designed to determine what is actually exploitable in a given environment and how risk can be reduced fastest.
Founded by Or Latovitz, Amit Nir and Nadav Geva, all graduates of the IDF’s elite Talpiot program, Dux draws on experience from large-scale national cyber and AI initiatives that were deployed operationally and recognized with multiple national innovation awards. The company is already supporting major U.S. enterprises, according to the announcement.
“Defenders need rapid insight into what’s actually exploitable and the means to reduce those exposures effectively, at the pace modern attacks demand,” said Latovitz, the company’s co-founder and CEO.
