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Blackstone Backs Huskeys with $27M Series A to Fight Unwanted AI Traffic
Blackstone is placing an early bet on Huskeys, a cybersecurity startup building an artificial intelligence gatekeeper to protect companies from the growing chaos of automated web traffic. The company, valued at more than $100 million with a total of $35M funding, uses agentic AI to block threats.
HiddenLayer raises $100M and Huskeys $27M for AI security
SiliconANGLE covered Huskeys' $27 million Series A alongside another AI-security funding round, noting Huskeys' platform for monitoring WAFs, CDNs, and load balancers against AI-driven traffic threats, founded by former Israeli military intelligence officers.
Blackstone invests $27M in Israeli startup Huskeys' Series A to tackle AI-agent traffic
Blackstone led a $27 million Series A round for Huskeys, an Israeli cybersecurity startup developing AI-powered tools to distinguish legitimate from malicious AI-generated web traffic.
US giant Blackstone invests in Israeli cyber startup tackling malicious AI web traffic
Blackstone led a $27 million investment in Huskeys, an Israeli startup building technology to manage and secure internet traffic generated by autonomous AI systems rather than human users.
Huskeys Raises $27M Series A to Build the Security Control Layer for the AI Driven Network
Huskeys raised $27 million in Series A funding to build a unified management layer for fragmented edge security infrastructure, addressing challenges from AI-driven traffic and multi-cloud deployments.

Huskeys Raises $27M Series A Led by Blackstone to Tackle the Growing Complexity of Edge Security
Cybersecurity is facing a new management problem at the network edge. Organizations now rely on an expanding combination of cloud providers, content delivery networks, web application firewalls and other edge services, creating fragmented environments that are increasingly difficult to understand and secure as a whole.

In the Big Leagues: Huskeys, Cyber Startup of 30Under30 Alumni, Closes Second Round Led by Blackstone
Itai Gafni and Roy Weisfeld, named this year to Forbes Israel's 30Under30 list, complete an additional $27 million raise and report a doubling of headcount. Investment giant Blackstone led the round in its first Early-Stage cybersecurity bet in Israel - joining existing backers that include soccer star Mario Götze and NFL legend Larry Fitzgerald.
Huskeys Raises $27 Million Series A Led By Blackstone Innovations Investments
Huskeys has raised $27 million in Series A funding led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, bringing the cybersecurity company’s total funding to $35 million as it builds a Network Edge Security Management platform for increasingly complex and AI-driven network environments. The round follows an $8 million seed financing. Other investors include Merlin Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Zscaler Ventures, Okta Ventures, Bright Pixel Capital and SV Angel.

Blackstone leads $27 million investment in Israeli cyber startup Huskeys
Huskeys is developing an agentic AI layer for web application firewalls, arguing that security infrastructure built decades ago needs to be redesigned for a world in which AI agents increasingly act online.
Huskeys Emerges from Stealth with $8 Million to Reinvent Edge Security Management
Huskeys emerged from stealth with $8 million in seed funding, introducing an Edge Security Management platform that uses AI-driven policy orchestration to address limitations in traditional web application firewalls.
Huskeys raises $8 million Seed round to fix web security flaws, already working with TikTok
Huskeys raised $8 million in seed funding for an AI-powered system that strengthens existing web application firewalls by optimizing their rules, counting TikTok among its early customers.
Huskeys Emerges From Stealth With $8 Million in Funding
Huskeys emerged from stealth with $8 million in seed funding to launch an edge security management platform that uses AI to optimize WAF configurations across multi-cloud environments, founded by former Israeli intelligence officers.
Huskeys launches with $8M to modernize WAF security with Edge Security Management
Huskeys launched with $8 million in seed funding for an AI-driven platform that modernizes web application firewalls across multicloud and multi-WAF environments, aiming to better distinguish legitimate from malicious traffic in API-driven and agentic environments.