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Cyble monitors 2,000+ dark web forums, marketplaces & encrypted channels Tracked 6,046 global breach incidents in 2025 $24M Series B - $48.3M raised across six rounds Founded 2019 by Beenu Arora & Manish Chachada Y Combinator-backed AI-native security company Cyble monitors 2,000+ dark web forums, marketplaces & encrypted channels Tracked 6,046 global breach incidents in 2025 $24M Series B - $48.3M raised across six rounds Founded 2019 by Beenu Arora & Manish Chachada Y Combinator-backed AI-native security company
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Company Dossier · Cyber Threat Intelligence

Cyble

The AI-native intelligence company that reads the dark web so enterprises and governments can act on threats before they land.

Above: the Cyble wordmark. The Cupertino-headquartered firm keeps analysts and machines watching the corners of the internet where stolen data changes hands.

Founded 2019 Cupertino, CA ~220 employees 11 countries
2,000+Dark web sources
6,046Breaches tracked 2025
$48.3MTotal raised
9Products in the stack
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What Cyble does

Cyble is a threat intelligence company built on a simple, uncomfortable premise: the best place to learn about an attack is the place where attackers plan it. Since 2019, the firm has continuously monitored the surface web, the deep web, and the dark web - the invitation-only forums, marketplaces, and encrypted channels where credentials, exploits, and stolen databases are traded - and turned what it finds into early warnings for the organizations most likely to be targeted.

The company describes its work as closing the "cybersecurity defense gap" with intelligence-driven, AI-native software. In practice that means a unified platform that ingests raw signal from thousands of sources, enriches and correlates it with machine learning, and surfaces the handful of items a security team actually needs to act on. Cyble has built intelligence for everything from agile startups to Fortune 50 companies to national governments, and it operates with a team spread across 11 countries.

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Who it serves, and the problem it solves

The customers

  • Government agencies, national CERTs, and defense institutions
  • Fortune 50 enterprises across finance, healthcare, and technology
  • Agile startups protecting their brand and credentials
  • Managed Security Service Providers reselling Cyble intelligence

The problem

Most organizations learn they have been breached long after their data is already circulating - often from a headline or a customer complaint. By that point the leak has spread and the cost is fixed. Cyble's core job is to compress that timeline: spot exposed credentials, leaked databases, brand impersonation, and attacker chatter early enough that a defender can respond while it still matters.

The value is visibility. In 2025 alone, Cyble tracked 6,046 global data breach and leak incidents, with government and finance among the most targeted sectors. That kind of aperture is hard to build in-house - it requires standing access to closed criminal communities, the language and tradecraft to operate there quietly, and the tooling to make sense of the volume.

"Built to close the cybersecurity defense gap with an intelligence-driven, AI-native unified control panel."

- Cyble, on its mission
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How it's different

AI-native, not AI-flavored. Plenty of vendors bolted machine learning onto existing products. Cyble's newer stack is built around it. Cyble Blaze, its agentic AI engine, is designed to hunt, reason, and act autonomously on threat data within minutes rather than simply flagging alerts for a human queue.

Depth of access. Its government platform, Cyble Hawk, maintains authenticated access to over 2,000 dark web forums, marketplaces, and encrypted channels - including invitation-only communities where serious criminal planning happens. In intelligence, where you can go matters as much as what you collect.

One platform, both ends of the market. Cyble serves nimble startups and Fortune 50 enterprises from the same core - a product discipline most vendors avoid by picking a single segment.

Trust before invoice. Its free AmIBreached tool lets anyone check whether their credentials have surfaced on the dark web, seeding credibility long before a sales conversation begins.

Alternatives in the category include Recorded Future, ZeroFox, Flashpoint, Intel 471, and Digital Shadows.

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Products & services

Flagship · Enterprise

Cyble Vision

Award-winning AI-native platform delivering real-time threat intelligence across surface, deep, and dark web.

Government

Cyble Hawk

Intelligence-led cyber defense for federal agencies, national CERTs, and defense institutions.

Agentic AI

Cyble Blaze

Detection and response engine that hunts, reasons, and acts autonomously within minutes.

Free tool

AmIBreached

Dark web exposure checker that identifies leaked credentials and compromised data.

Scanning

Cyble Odin

Internet-scale engine analyzing billions of IP addresses to map exposure.

Operations

Cyble TIP

Threat Intelligence Platform that centralizes, enriches, and operationalizes feeds.

Endpoint

Cyble Titan

Agent-based endpoint security addressing internal and external threats.

Cloud

Cyble Strato

AI-native cloud security platform unifying visibility and control.

Risk

Cyble Saratoga

Cyber risk quantification and optimization platform.

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Business model & expertise

How it makes money

Cyble sells B2B and B2G SaaS subscriptions to its intelligence and digital-risk-protection platforms - directly to enterprises and governments, through a channel of Managed Security Service Providers, and via listings such as AWS Marketplace. Free tools like AmIBreached act as a top-of-funnel trust builder.

Where the expertise lives

The company blends dark web tradecraft, threat research, and a modern data-and-AI stack - Kafka, Elasticsearch, Python, and Node under the hood, with agentic AI on top. That combination of human sources and machine scale is what lets a ~220-person team cover thousands of criminal channels.

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Where it fits in the market

Cyble sits in the cyber threat intelligence and digital risk protection category, alongside names like Recorded Future, ZeroFox, and Flashpoint. Its wedge is the combination of deep dark web access with an AI-native architecture, sold to both commercial and government buyers. Backing from Y Combinator, Blackbird Ventures, and King River Capital - plus a partnership with Wipro to embed its intelligence in enterprise risk management - signals a company positioning itself as the intelligence layer others build on.

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The timeline

2019

Cyble is founded

Beenu Arora and Manish Chachada, who met at Columbia Business School, launch Cyble as an early-warning system for cyber threats.

2020

AmIBreached launches

A free dark web exposure checker grows Cyble's profile among researchers and enterprises.

2021

Government focus & Odin

Cyble expands into government intelligence with Hawk and internet-scale scanning with Odin.

2023

$24M Series B

Blackbird Ventures and King River Capital co-lead a round to advance AI-powered threat intelligence.

2024

Wipro alliance & agentic AI

Cyble partners with Wipro and rolls out Blaze, plus new cloud and endpoint products.

2025

Recognition & expansion

Named among Y Combinator's AI startups; CEO Beenu Arora honored as an ET Edge Impactful CEO.

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Founders & funding

The founders

  • Beenu Arora - Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO. Named ET Edge Impactful CEO 2025; member of the Forbes Technology Council.
  • Manish Chachada - Co-Founder & COO. Co-developed the early-warning concept at Columbia Business School.

The money

  • ~$48.3M raised across six rounds from 15 investors
  • Series B (2023): $24M, co-led by Blackbird Ventures & King River Capital
  • Participation from Spider Capital, January Capital & Summit Peak Ventures
  • Y Combinator-backed
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Frequently asked

What does Cyble do?

Cyble provides AI-native cyber threat intelligence and digital risk protection, monitoring the surface, deep, and dark web to help enterprises and governments detect and disrupt threats early.

Who founded Cyble and when?

Cyble was founded in 2019 by Beenu Arora (Chairman & CEO) and Manish Chachada (COO), who met at Columbia Business School.

What are Cyble's main products?

Flagships include Cyble Vision (enterprise intelligence), Cyble Hawk (government intelligence), and Cyble Blaze AI (agentic detection and response), plus Odin, Titan, Strato, Saratoga, TIP, and the free AmIBreached tool.

How much funding has Cyble raised?

Roughly $48.3M across six rounds, including a $24M Series B in 2023 co-led by Blackbird Ventures and King River Capital. Cyble is also Y Combinator-backed.

Who are Cyble's customers?

Government agencies, national CERTs, defense institutions, Fortune 50 enterprises, and startups, served by a team spanning 11 countries.

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