Lema AI is a New York-based cybersecurity startup building an agentic AI platform for third-party risk management (TPRM). Founded by three veterans of Israel's Unit 8200, Lema replaces static vendor questionnaires and check-the-box compliance with continuous, behavior-based analysis that maps how vendors actually operate inside an enterprise - tracking data access, permission changes and 'risk drift' to surface real attack paths. The company emerged from stealth in February 2026 with roughly $24M in total funding, including a $17.5M Series A led by Team8.
Eddie Dovzhik is the co-founder and CEO of Lema AI, a New York and Israel-based cybersecurity company building what it calls the world's first Agentic Risk Engineer for third-party risk management. A former Major in Israel's Unit 8200 and a former product leader at Noname Security (acquired by Akamai), Dovzhik launched Lema in 2023 with the belief that third-party risk should be treated as a security problem rather than a compliance checklist. The company emerged from stealth in early 2026 with $24 million in total funding, including a $17.5 million Series A led by Team8.
Shawn Melamed is the co-founder and CEO of Spiral, a New York fintech that plugs charitable giving into the banking apps of credit unions and community banks. Before Spiral he ran Morgan Stanley's Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices and built two prior fintech companies, StrikeNET (sold to TMX Group) and Correlix. He was named one of The Financial Technology Report's Top 50 Fintech CEOs of 2024.
Noam Mills is the co-founder and CEO of Panax, an AI-native cash flow management platform for mid-market and enterprise finance teams. Before fintech, she was an elite epee fencer who ranked first in the world among under-20 competitors and became the first Israeli to fence epee at the Olympics, at Beijing 2008. She studied economics at Harvard, earned a Harvard MBA, and built a finance career across BCG, FIMI Opportunity Funds, SparkBeyond, and Mixtiles before founding Panax in 2022.