Daylight raises $80M Series B for AI security operations, with a forward-deployed engineer option for customers
Daylight, which pairs AI agents with human security engineers, raised an $80M Series B led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives on Nov 10 and lets customers choose a fully managed, co-managed or forward-deployed engineering model.
Daylight, a New York and Israel based security company founded in early 2025, announced an $80 million Series B on November 10, led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives with new investor Okta Ventures and existing backers Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Vintage Partners and Maple Capital. Total funding is now $120 million, and the company says revenue grew more than 40x over the past year.
Daylight's model combines its AI-native platform with security engineers who build, run and customize AI agents for each customer's systems and workflows. Customers can take the service fully managed, co-managed with their own team, or supported by forward-deployed engineers working inside their environment.
For FDEs, this is another sign that the forward-deployed model is spreading from AI labs into specialist domains like security operations, where engineers tune agents to a customer's stack and keep humans on the judgment calls. Daylight says it will use the money to expand in the US, enter EMEA and APAC, and grow its security engineering teams.
Source: daylight.ai