Vega is an AI-native cybersecurity company building a federated Security Analytics Mesh that lets security teams detect, search, and investigate threats directly where their data already lives - cloud platforms, data lakes, SIEMs, and cold storage - without forcing expensive centralized ingestion. Founded in 2024 by Unit 8200 and Intel Granulate veterans Shay Sandler and Eli Rozen, Vega raised $185M across three rounds in under two years and reached an ~$800M valuation, while signing multimillion-dollar contracts with global banks, healthcare giants, and Fortune 200 firms.
Dean Leitersdorf is the 27-year-old Co-Founder and CEO of Decart, an AI research lab building real-time world models and ultra-fast inference infrastructure. A Technion PhD graduate at 23 and veteran of Israel's elite Unit 8200, he co-founded Decart in late 2023 with Moshe Shalev. The company went from stealth to unicorn status in under a year, raising over $453M total including a $300M Series C in May 2026 backed by NVIDIA, Radical Ventures, Adobe, Toyota, and angel investors including Andrej Karpathy. Decart's products - DOS (inference stack), Lucy (real-time video transformation), and Oasis (the viral AI-generated Minecraft-like game) - position it as a vertically integrated AI company targeting a billion-user consumer app.
Yinon Costica is a co-founder and VP of Product at Wiz, the cloud security company acquired by Google for $32 billion in 2025 - the largest cybersecurity acquisition in history. A veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces' elite Talpiot program and Unit 8200, Costica previously co-founded Adallom (sold to Microsoft for $320M) and scaled Microsoft's Cloud Security Group to $1.5B in annual revenue before helping build Wiz into the fastest-growing software company ever, now serving over 50% of the Fortune 100.
Yonatan Striem-Amit is the co-founder and CTO of 7AI, an agentic cybersecurity company that raised the largest Series A in cybersecurity history ($130M). A veteran of Israel's elite Unit 8200 intelligence corps, he co-built Cybereason from a Boston startup into a global EDR leader, then left to solve the defender speed problem with autonomous AI agents. He reverse-engineered video games at age 12, coded his way into military intelligence at 18, and has spent 25 years trying to flip the asymmetry between attackers and defenders.
Yossi Naar is the Chief Visionary Officer and co-founder of Cybereason, the endpoint detection and response (EDR) company he helped build from a 20-person Tel Aviv startup into a global cybersecurity powerhouse valued at $5 billion. A veteran of Israel's elite Unit 8200 intelligence unit, Naar invented the Malop (Malicious Operation) framework and designed Cybereason's in-memory graph engine - two core innovations that reshaped how defenders visualize and respond to multi-stage cyberattacks. With a career spanning defense-grade security platforms, AdTech big data systems, and cutting-edge cybersecurity, he brings a rare combination of low-level engineering depth and product-level vision to the frontlines of the cyber war.
Gili Raanan is an Israeli cybersecurity pioneer turned venture capitalist who invented CAPTCHA, co-created the world's first Web Application Firewall, and then built Cyberstarts — a seed-only VC that turned $54M into over $1B and backed Wiz, the $32B cloud-security juggernaut acquired by Google in 2025. A decade in IDF Unit 8200, two successful exits, nine years as a Sequoia Capital Israel GP, and $1.4B+ in capital raised makes him arguably the most influential figure in the Israeli cyber startup ecosystem.