Check Point to acquire Cyclops and Cyata for $150 million in strategic Israeli cyber push
The Israeli cybersecurity giant is expanding its domestic footprint with a string of acquisitions targeting early-stage startups.
Israeli cybersecurity giant Check Point is expanding its domestic footprint with a string of acquisitions targeting early-stage startups. Among the targets are Cyclops Security and Cyata, two emerging companies tackling distinct challenges in enterprise security. In addition, Check Point has also acqui-hired the team from Rotate. The valuation of the deals was not disclosed but is estimated at around $150 million in total, with around $85 million going towards the purchase of Cyclops, according to estimates.
Cyclops, which has developed an agentic exposure management platform, was founded by cybersecurity veterans Eran Zilberman, Elay Gueta, and Biran Franco, Cyclops raised $12.5 million in Seed funding in July 2023 from investors including Ibex Investors, Merlin Ventures, Insight Partners, Tal Ventures, and CrowdStrike’s Falcon Fund.
The company's Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) provides discovery and continuous monitoring of every asset across cloud, on-premises, OT, and SaaS environments.
Zilberman and his co-founders bring extensive experience from both the private sector and Israel’s national security apparatus. Zilberman has held senior roles at RSA and We Ankor, while Gueta served in the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel and in the IDF’s cyber units, and Franco previously led product management at Axonius, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and SentinelOne.
Meanwhile, Cyata, which emerged from stealth with $8.5 million in Seed funding led by TLV Partners last July, focuses on a new but growing vulnerability: unsupervised AI agents operating across enterprise environments. These agents, task-driven bots, copilots, and chatbots, can autonomously execute code, query sensitive data, and initiate workflows, often outside conventional identity frameworks.
“AI agents represent the biggest leap in enterprise technology since the cloud,” said Cyata CEO and co-founder Shahar Tal, a former senior executive at Cellebrite and Check Point, who founded the company with CTO Baruch Weizman and VP R&D Dror Roth, both former leaders in Israeli cyber units and commercial security labs. “They act autonomously and at scale, yet no one is watching what they do. Cyata changes that.” The startup’s platform maps AI agents to human owners, continuously assesses risk, tracks activity with a forensic layer, and applies just-in-time access controls.
Rotate, founded by CEO Ro'ee Margalit and CTO Avidan Barak, has built a comprehensive, all-in-one platform purpose-built for MSPs.
