Hunters
Israeli security operations platform company co-founded by veterans of the IDF Intelligence Corps
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| Founder(s) | Uri May, Tomer Kazaz |
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| Industry | Security operations (SOC) / threat detection |
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Hunters (formerly styled Hunters.AI) is an Israeli-founded cyber-security company that sells a security-operations platform for detecting, investigating and responding to threats. It was co-founded by Uri May (CEO) and Tomer Kazaz. YL Ventures and Blumberg Capital led its $5.4 million seed round in 2019.[1] In January 2022 May announced a Series C round led by Stripes.[2]
Founders
In a 2020 company blog post, May wrote: "Tomer Kazaz and I founded Hunters. Both of us started our Cyber journey with the Israeli Intelligence Corps".[3] His author profile at Snowflake, one of Hunters' investors, says he "began his career in cybersecurity in the prestigious Unit 8200 of the Israeli Defense Forces intelligence corps".[4] Infosecurity Magazine described the company as "a group of cyber and technology experts – including veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces’ 8200 unit".[5]
Investors
May's Series C announcement listed the company's investors as Stripes, YL Ventures, DTCP, Cisco Investments, Bessemer Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners, Microsoft's venture fund M12, Blumberg Capital, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks and Okta.[2]
See also
Notes
- ↑ Frederic Lardinois, Hunters.AI raises $5.4M for its autonomous threat-hunting solution, TechCrunch, 23 May 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Uri May, Announcing Our Series C… and What Comes Next, Hunters (company blog), 25 January 2022.
- ↑ Uri May, A Year (and a half) of Hunting – Exciting Funding News from Hunters' CEO, Hunters (company blog), 30 June 2020.
- ↑ Snowflake, Uri May, Snowflake (author profile).
- ↑ Interview: Uri May, CEO and Co-Founder, Hunters, Infosecurity Magazine, 16 September 2020.