Beacon Security raises $13 million to build AI-focused cybersecurity platform

Beacon Security, a cybersecurity startup based in Tel Aviv, has announced a $13 million seed funding round to develop an AI-native platform for security operations. The company aims to address the growing challenge of data trust in cybersecurity by providing a unified and reliable data layer that both human analysts and AI agents can rely on.

The round was led by Notable Capital, with participation from Holly Ventures, AlphaDrive Ventures, SVCI, Jefferies Family Office, and more than 60 cybersecurity founders and chief information security officers. Among the investors are founders of Talon, Descope, Gem Security, Dig Security, and Cider Security. Oren Yunger, managing partner at Notable Capital, has joined Beacon's board.

Founded in 2024, Beacon says it has experienced strong early adoption among enterprise customers in financial services, insurance, technology, healthcare, and hospitality. The company reported that its annual recurring revenue grew more than 300% in the first half of 2026, though it did not disclose absolute figures.

Beacon’s platform sits between an organization’s security data sources and the tools used by analysts. It normalizes, enriches, and organizes data from multiple vendors, creating a consistent and trustworthy dataset. This allows both automated AI agents and human teams to work from a complete and accurate picture, accelerating threat detection and response.

The company’s approach falls under the emerging category of “agentic” cybersecurity, where AI agents perform tasks such as detection engineering, investigations, alert triage, and threat hunting. Beacon’s platform includes a data layer for fusing and cleaning security telemetry, an environment for building and running AI-driven security workflows, and a library of specialized security agents. Future agents will focus on shadow-AI analysis and alert triage.

Beacon is led by co-founder and CEO Gal Tal-Hochberg, who previously founded HiredScore, an HR technology company acquired by Workday for $520 million. He co-founded Beacon with Or Mattatia and Iddo Israely, who bring expertise in cyber defense, offensive security, and large-scale data infrastructure.

“The acceleration of AI agents in the enterprise is creating a distinct need for a legible context layer for cyber defenders, which is fueling a fundamentally new security architecture,” said Tal-Hochberg. “We built Beacon to solve these challenges by providing the trusted data layer that allows organizations to deploy security agents compliantly and effectively.”

The funding comes as cybersecurity vendors race to integrate AI into defense strategies. Oren Yunger commented, “Every CISO knows the real bottleneck isn’t detection; it’s trust in your own data. That problem doesn’t go away when you add agents; it gets less forgiving. The data-trust gap is exactly what Beacon is bridging in the AI era.”