Huskeys Raises $27M Series A Led by Blackstone to Tackle the Growing Complexity of Edge Security
The startup says its platform unifies security across fragmented edge systems as AI-driven traffic makes it harder to distinguish legitimate from malicious requests.
- On Wednesday, Israeli cybersecurity startup Huskeys announced a $27 million Series A financing round led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, bringing its total funding to $35 million.
- Huskeys pioneered Network Edge Security Management , a new category that operates as a unified intelligence layer over fragmented edge environments rather than replacing existing security infrastructure.
- Blackstone Chief Information Security Officer Adam Fletcher noted that AI-driven traffic requires new approaches; the round also drew Zscaler Ventures, Okta Ventures, and WAF inventor Eran Reshef.
- The platform connects disparate network technologies using a patented Unified Data Model, enabling security teams to deploy Virtual Patching and manage autonomous agents without disrupting legitimate business traffic.
- With non-human traffic estimated to reach 70% of internet volume by 2027, Huskeys aims to provide infrastructure that distinguishes between legitimate autonomous agents and malicious threats in real time.
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Blackstone leads investment in Israeli cybersecurity firm fighting AI traffic threat
Huskeys, founded in 2025 by IDF’s Unit 8200 alumni Itai Gafni (CEO) and Roy Weisfeld (CTO), emerged from stealth five months ago and has investments from the world’s largest alternative asset manager.
Huskeys Raises $27M Series A Led by Blackstone to Build a New Security Layer for the Network Edge
The cybersecurity industry has spent years adding new layers of protection around applications, cloud infrastructure, and internet-facing services. But as organizations adopt more cloud providers, CDNs, web application firewalls and network technologies, a different problem is emerging: managing all of those systems together. That challenge is now attracting investor attention. Huskeys has raised a $27 […] This story continues at The Next Web
The round was led by Blackstone Innovations Investments and was also attended by Merlin Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Zscaler Ventures, Okta Ventures and SV Angel, as well as individual investors and executives from companies such as Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare, Check Point, AWS, Google, Microsoft and Intel.
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