Ex-Israeli army cyber chief raises $75m for cloud security

Sweet Security, a cloud security startup based in Tel Aviv, has raised US$75 million in a new funding round.

The company was founded by Dror Kashti, the former chief information security officer of the Israeli army, along with Eyal Fisher and Orel Ben Ishay.

Kashti previously managed the military’s cloud migration project involving Google Cloud and AWS.

Evolution Equity Partners led the latest investment, with participation from Munich Re Ventures, and others.

Sweet Security said it will use the funds to grow its marketing and sales teams as it targets expansion into the US.

The company, which uses a proprietary large-language model to monitor cloud infrastructure, has raised US$120 million to date.

🔗 Source: Bloomberg

🧠 Food for thought

Implications, context, and why it matters.

Sweet Security says ARR rose 6x with enterprise customers up 10x over the past year, with several Fortune 1000 groups 1.
Latio Tech named the company a Cloud Security Leader and a CADR leader (focused on detection plus response to active cloud attacks) in its 2025 Cloud Security Report 2. Latio Tech is an industry research firm.
Sweet has not shared ARR or many named customers. Gartner or Forrester (technology research firms) have no mentions, so comparison with Wiz or Orca Security (larger cloud security vendors) stays hard.
The company has a patented large language model (LLM) detection engine 1 that cuts alert noise (false or low-priority alerts) to 0.04% 1, which could help explain enterprise uptake if results hold up.

Sweet Security will use the funding for global expansion and product work 1, so it needs channel partners or cloud security integrators for enterprise rollouts.
The company is on AWS Marketplace 3. It works with Illustria, a software supply chain risk management provider, on supply chain risks 4.
Managed security service providers (MSSPs) or cloud consultancies can use Sweet’s runtime-first protection (protection while workloads run) for cloud and AI workloads 1.
AI-focused integrators can benefit because Sweet’s AI Security Platform monitors models and agents (autonomous software components that take actions using AI) in real time 5.