Sweet Security Raises $75 Million for Cloud and AI Security

Israeli cybersecurity startup Sweet Security today announced raising $75 million in a Series B funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $120 million.

The investment round was led by Evolution Equity Partners, with additional support from Glilot Capital Partners, Key1 Capital, and Munich Re Ventures.

Founded in 2023 by a retired Israeli army CISO, Sweet Security offers AI-powered security solutions that deliver real-time threat detection and response across cloud and AI.

Tackling the Runtime Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) segment, the company’s end-to-end solution prioritizes risk, detection, investigation, and remediation.

Additionally, Sweet Security has built an AI Security Platform (AISP) that can expose shadow AI by discovering every LLM server, AI agent, and services that use AI.

It can uncover AI interactions and potential misconfigurations, along with over-permissioned access. It can also detect and prevent attacks such as prompt injections, flag abnormal model behavior in ...