Bridgecrew founder Guy Eisenkot’s Baz raises $9 million as AI coding race intensifies
Israeli startup takes total funding to $17 million and unveils new “Planner” product designed to prevent software bugs and security flaws before code is written.
Israeli AI software startup Baz has raised an additional $9 million in Seed funding, bringing its total financing to $17 million, as the company expands beyond AI code review with a new product designed to identify software flaws before developers write a single line of code.
The funding extension comes roughly a year and a half after the startup emerged from stealth and reflects growing investor interest in software designed to govern the rapidly expanding use of AI-generated code inside large enterprises.
The new financing round was co-led by existing investors Battery Ventures and boldstart ventures, with new investors AFG Partners and Disruptive VC joining the round. Baz said the capital will be used to support research into AI coding agents for engineering teams.
Alongside the funding, the company unveiled Baz Planner, a new product that shifts the focus of software governance from reviewing completed code to evaluating development plans before coding begins. The platform acts as an intermediary between developers and the codebase, automatically analyzing proposed changes, identifying potential bugs and security vulnerabilities, and modifying coding plans to prevent entire classes of issues from reaching production.
The launch marks a significant expansion of Baz's platform. Until now, the company has focused primarily on AI-powered code review, using specialized AI agents to evaluate software against product requirements, architectural decisions, security policies and operational reliability. Baz said it now serves more than 100 AI, infrastructure and cybersecurity customers worldwide, and that its AI Code Review product has been ranked first on the precision-weighted Code Review Bench.
The company was founded by Eisenkot and CTO Nimrod Kor, veterans of the team behind Bridgecrew, the Israeli cloud security startup acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $200 million in 2021. After the acquisition, Eisenkot led application security initiatives at Palo Alto Networks, where he helped scale the company's Cloud Application Security business before leaving in 2023 to establish Baz.
When Calcalist first revealed Baz in January 2025, the startup had just emerged from a year of stealth development after raising an $8 million Seed round.
The company's early development was shaped by the outbreak of war in October 2023. Both Eisenkot and Kor were called up for extended reserve duty in Unit 8200, while Eisenkot's younger brother, Gal, was killed during fighting in northern Gaza. Speaking to Calcalist in early 2025, Eisenkot said building the company after returning from reserve duty became both a personal mission and a symbol of resilience.
