Cyata, an Israeli cybersecurity insurtech startup, has launched publicly with $8.5 mn in seed funding led by TLV Partners.
The company targets a growing blind spot in enterprise security: AI agents operating without proper identity controls.
As businesses adopt AI agents to write code, access data, and automate tasks, many are deploying them without clear oversight or safeguards.
These agents, unlike human employees or service accounts, spin up instantly, run in parallel, and take independent actions—including flawed decisions influenced by hallucinations or misconfigurations.
Traditional identity and access management tools offer little support for this fast-moving, autonomous workforce.
Cyata’s platform gives enterprises tools to monitor and control AI agent activity in real time. Its system discovers agent identities and privileges continuously, logs decision-making processes for audit purposes, and allows sensitive actions to be gated by just-in-time approvals.
Each agent is linked to a responsible human owner and constrained by role-specific access rights.
Insurance is vital to society, giving businesses the confidence to realise their ambitions in the face of uncertainty, but the underlying structure that insurance is served on remains analogue, eroding confidence in the insurance industry to scale to meet the rising level of risk, inhibiting growth and reducing profitability.
The frictional cost of moving risks through the value chain means that up to 50% of premiums businesses pay for insurance evaporates as the pure cost of providing the policy, making insurance the highest cost of usage of any product in the world.
At the same time, the expectations of customers, brokers and insurance employees are changing, speed, flexibility and control over risk selection and the target portfolio matter most.
Brokers demand fast speed of service which has become a core differentiator to win the right risks. To profitably grow, insurers need to scale judgment across a much larger volume of risks, guide scarce capacity to the right risks, progressively decouple premium growth from expense growth, and deliver out-performance in combined ratio through consistent risk decision making.
To attract and retain the best talent, insurance companies need to deliver modern digital experiences to underwriters and claims adjusters that empower them to focus on risk decision-making while removing monotonous manual activities and data entry which are anachronistic in today’s digital economy.
CEO and co-founder Shahar Tal emphasized the shift: “AI agents are not just faster workers—they’re independent decision-makers”
We’re focused on securing the actors, not the models. Enterprises need the same level of control over agents as they do over humans.
CEO and co-founder Shahar Tal
Tal, a veteran of Check Point and Cellebrite, co-founded the company with VP R&D Dror Roth and CTO Baruch Weizman. All three bring backgrounds in elite Israeli military intelligence units and extensive experience in cybersecurity and digital forensics. Over half of Cyata’s leadership team previously worked at Cellebrite.
The funding round also included angel investors such as Ron Serber and Yossi Carmil, former CEOs of Cellebrite. TLV Partners backed the company based on the team’s experience and the growing risk landscape.
AI agents are scaling faster than companies can manage. What’s rare today will be routine in twelve months—and risk will scale alongside adoption.
Brian Sack, Partner at TLV Partners
Robert Burns, Chief Security Officer at Thales Cybersecurity Products, noted, “AI agents add complexity. They don’t behave like users or machines we’re used to managing. Cyata is addressing a problem many companies haven’t even started to see.”
Based in Tel Aviv, Cyata currently employs 12 people and plans to expand as demand for agent security tools accelerates.
