After Tenable exit, Indegy founders raise $20M Seed for Opti to tame access sprawl
Investors are betting on an intelligence layer that helps enterprises understand and automate the relationships among users, systems and permissions.
Opti, an AI-native identity security startup founded in 2024, has raised a $20 million Seed round as enterprises confront mounting challenges in managing who has access to what inside their networks. The round was led by YL Ventures, Mayfield Fund and Hetz Ventures, with participation from Squared Circle Ventures, Maple Capital and cybersecurity pioneer Shlomo Kramer.
The company’s platform is built around an operating model in which AI interprets identity risk, recommends least-privilege access decisions and orchestrates clean, safe permissions across an organization. To do so, Opti deploys pre-trained, domain-specific large language models trained on curated identity data and frameworks. The goal, according to the company, is to allow AI to understand the complex relationships among users, systems and access rights.
Opti was founded in 2024 by serial cyber entrepreneurs Barak Perelman (CEO), Mille Gandelsman (CPO), and Ido Trivizki (CTO). The three founders, all graduates of the same Talpiot program cohort, have been working together for two decades. In 2015, they founded Indegy, which developed a platform for real-time monitoring of industrial control networks and detecting hacking or sabotage attempts before operational damage could occur. Five years later, the company was acquired by the global cybersecurity firm Tenable for approximately $100 million. Following the acquisition, the three founders established Tenable’s development center in Israel and expanded it while serving as company vice presidents.
Opti currently employs 30 people in Israel and the United States and is in the process of expanding its team, with active recruitment for development and sales roles.
“Identity has evolved into a massive data ecosystem that enterprises struggle to control,” said Perelman. “Teams work incredibly hard, but they spend their time managing complexity instead of focusing on strategic opportunities. Opti gives them an intelligence layer that elevates and automates their capabilitiesת making identity operations faster, clearer, and safer.”
