Cyera
Headquarters
New York, NYFounded
2021CEO / Founder
Yotam SegevEmployees
1001-5000Funding
Series D+ — $1.7B+Products
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.6/10Website
www.cyera.com/
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About Cyera
Cyera is a data security company founded in 2021 by Yotam Segev, Tamar Bar-Ilan, and Yonatan Itai, and headquartered in New York. The company builds an AI-native security platform that enables enterprises to discover, classify, govern, and protect sensitive data across cloud storage, SaaS applications, on-premises infrastructure, and AI environments.
Cyera's platform centers on Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP), with additional AI-specific capabilities including AI Guardian and AI Runtime Protection. Its agentless architecture deploys in approximately five minutes and uses an AI-powered classification engine the company reports achieves 95% accuracy. Notable customers include Paramount Pictures and Mercury Financial; Cyera has been named to Forbes AI 50, Fortune Cyber 60, and Forbes Cloud 100.
Cyera has raised over $1.7 billion in total funding from investors including Accel, Sequoia Capital, Blackstone, Coatue Management, and Greenoaks. The company employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people globally. In its most recent disclosed funding round, Cyera raised a Series G at a reported $12 billion valuation.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Cyera competes with, and how they differ.
BigID pairs sensitive-data discovery and classification with AI-governance and privacy-request tooling on one platform, competing with Cyera on breadth of governance features rather than agentless deployment speed.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Wiz is a cloud-native CNAPP built around workload and vulnerability scanning that has bolted on its own data-security-posture module, competing with Cyera at the platform-vs-pure-play-DSPM boundary rather than head-on in data classification depth.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedVaronis built its business on on-premises file-server and Microsoft 365 access governance and insider-risk detection before extending into cloud DSPM, giving it deeper legacy-estate coverage than Cyera's cloud-first, agentless approach but slower enterprise-wide onboarding.
Sentra runs the same cloud-first, agentless DSPM approach as Cyera -- founded the same year (2021) by fellow Israeli Unit 8200 veterans -- but at a fraction of the scale ($103M raised vs. Cyera's $2B+), competing on classification speed rather than platform breadth.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in Cyera's history, with sources.
- Funding
Series G -- $600M led by Evolution Equity Partners
Cyera closed a $600 million Series G led by Evolution Equity Partners, quadrupling its valuation in 18 months to $12 billion and taking cumulative funding past $2 billion.
pulse2.com - Acquisition
Acquired Genie Security for an estimated $50M
Cyera acquired Israeli endpoint-DLP startup Genie Security, just five months after Genie was founded, in a deal estimated at $50 million.
calcalistech.com - Acquisition
Acquired Ryft Data for an estimated $100-130M
Cyera acquired Ryft Data Inc., a New York/Tel Aviv startup building traceable data-access infrastructure for AI agents; deal terms were undisclosed but market sources estimated the price at $100-130 million.
siliconangle.com - Funding
Series F -- $400M led by Blackstone
Cyera raised a $400 million Series F led by Blackstone, tripling its valuation over the prior year to $9 billion and pushing cumulative funding past $1.7 billion.
securityweek.com - Acquisition
Acquired Otterize
Cyera acquired Otterize, an Israeli non-human-identity security startup, for an undisclosed sum reported as "tens of millions of dollars," its third Israeli acquisition.
calcalistech.com - Funding
Series E -- $540M led by Georgian, Greenoaks and Lightspeed
Cyera raised a $540 million Series E led by Georgian, Greenoaks and Lightspeed Venture Partners, doubling its valuation to $6 billion; roughly $100 million of the round funded employee and founder secondary sales.
siliconangle.com - Funding
Series D -- $300M co-led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures
Cyera raised a $300 million Series D co-led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures, with Sequoia, Coatue, Redpoint and Georgian participating, doubling its valuation to $3 billion in seven months.
calcalistech.com - Acquisition
Acquired Trail Security for $162M
Cyera acquired Israeli data-loss-prevention startup Trail Security for $162 million, adding DLP capabilities to its DSPM platform.
scworld.com - Funding
Series C -- $300M led by Coatue
Cyera raised a $300 million Series C led by Coatue, a new investor, joined by Spark Capital, Georgian and AT&T Ventures, at a $1.4 billion valuation -- nearly tripling its Series B mark in under a year.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series B -- $100M led by Accel
Cyera raised a $100 million Series B led by Accel, with Sequoia, Cyberstarts and Redpoint Ventures participating, valuing the company at $500 million and crossing unicorn status.
calcalistech.com - Funding
Series A -- $60M led by Sequoia Capital
Cyera emerged from stealth with a $60 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Accel and Cyberstarts, and former Palo Alto Networks CMO Emeritus Rene Bonvanie joining the board.
cyera.com - Founded
Founded by Yotam Segev and Tamar Bar-Ilan
Cyera was co-founded in 2021 by CEO Yotam Segev and CTO Tamar Bar-Ilan, both veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces' Unit 8200 cyber unit and its Talpiot leadership academy.
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