Daylight’s AI agents handle most routine detection, investigation and response work, while its security engineers build and tune the agents for each customer and make the calls that need human judgment [1][3]. Customers can hand over security operations entirely, run them jointly with an internal team, or work with Daylight engineers embedded alongside their staff [1]. Its Aura platform lets teams investigate in natural language over a central data lake, which Daylight began offering as a managed service in June [1].
The company claims it detects threats in seconds and contains them within minutes, up to 10 times faster than traditional managed security providers [1][3]. It also monitors customers’ own AI systems, investigating prompt-injection alerts and risky Model Context Protocol connections alongside identity, endpoint and cloud activity [1].
“The future of security operations won’t be defined by how many people a company can deploy,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Hagai Shapira [3]. Shapira, an early product leader at security automation company Torq, founded Daylight in early 2025 with Eldad Rudich, Torq’s first employee and former vice president of R&D; both served in Israeli military intelligence [1][2]. Daylight has 80 employees, 43 of them in Israel, and plans to use the money to expand in the U.S., enter Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific, and hire more security engineers [2][1].