Cellebrite alums raise $8.5M in Seed funding to guard against rogue AI agents
Cyata emerges from stealth with funding to build identity controls for digital coworkers.
Cyata, a cybersecurity startup founded by alumni of Unit 8200, Cellebrite, and Check Point, has launched from stealth with $8.5 million in Seed funding led by TLV Partners. The company aims to tackle a growing but under-addressed threat: AI agents operating without oversight across enterprise environments.
As organizations embrace AI to streamline operations, a new class of digital worker, task-driven agents, copilots, and chatbots, has begun executing code, querying sensitive databases, initiating transactions, and triggering automated workflows. But these agents often operate outside traditional identity frameworks, lacking the controls, traceability, and accountability applied to human employees or service accounts.
“AI agents represent the biggest leap in enterprise technology since the cloud,” said Cyata CEO and co-founder Shahar Tal, formerly a senior executive at Cellebrite and Check Point. “They act autonomously and at scale, yet no one is watching what they do. Cyata changes that.”
Cyata’s platform introduces what it calls a "control plane for agentic identities." It provides automated discovery of AI agents and their permissions, maps them to their human owners, and continuously assesses risk. It also adds a forensic layer that tracks agent activity, including a novel feature requiring agents to justify their reasoning in real time, and applies just-in-time access control with optional human-in-the-loop approval for sensitive actions.
The founding team includes CTO Baruch Weizman and VP R&D Dror Roth, both former leaders in Israeli cyber units and commercial security labs. Cyata’s team of 12 is based in Tel Aviv, with 60% of its leadership drawn from digital forensics pioneer Cellebrite. The round also drew investment from former Cellebrite CEOs Ron Serber and Yossi Carmil.
