Brava Security, a cybersecurity start-up with research and development in Israel, has raised $15m in a seed round co-led by F2 Venture Capital and Pitango. The company announced the round on 4 November 2026.
Angel investors, including executives from Anthropic, Microsoft and Check Point, also took part. Brava did not disclose a valuation.
Calcalist reported that the company was founded in 2024 and has about 20 employees, including AI and cybersecurity researchers.
“Everyone is racing to put AI in charge of the SOC. You can't automate a decision based on evidence no one ever proved.”Idan Basre, co-founder and CEO, Brava Security
What Brava does
Security operations centres, or SOCs, rely on logs and other telemetry from a company's systems to spot attacks. If a tool is misconfigured or a log is not being collected, an attack can pass unseen. Brava's software tests for those gaps.
It uses multiple AI agents to generate the exact telemetry a given attack would produce, without carrying out the attack. It then checks whether the customer's existing defences detect it. Where they do not, Brava rewrites detection rules, fixes log collection and the feeds into SIEM systems, and verifies the changes, Calcalist reported. Customers do not have to replace their existing security tools.
Brava says it integrates with Splunk, Google SecOps, CrowdStrike and more than 70 other data sources and destinations, and aims to deliver first findings within 10 to 15 minutes of setup.
"Everyone is racing to put AI in charge of the SOC. You can't automate a decision based on evidence no one ever proved," chief executive Idan Basre told The Next Web.
Who is behind it
Basre, a graduate of the Talpiot programme, spent ten years in Unit 8200 as a cyber-threat researcher and then joined Microsoft, where he led product management for Microsoft Defender, according to Calcalist. Co-founder and chief technology officer Itay Gabbay served seven years in the Israel Defense Forces developing AI systems and took part in a joint Israel–DARPA research programme.
Brava says it works with Fortune 100 companies in retail, energy and hospitality. Cushman & Wakefield and WELL Health are named customers. Erik Hart, chief information security officer of Cushman & Wakefield, told The Next Web that Brava sits at the centre of the company's work to apply AI in security operations.
Yair Cassuto, a general partner at Pitango, told Calcalist that AI is sharply changing the threat landscape and the way organisations are attacked.
Gabbay told The Next Web that the hard part of security was never writing detections.
A busy market for AI in the SOC
Brava enters a crowded field. Tech Funding News listed Torq, which raised a $140m Series D at a $1.2bn valuation in January 2026, and Exaforce, which raised a $125m Series B, as companies building AI agents for security operations centres. It also named French start-up Qevlar AI and Fig Security, which raised $38m across seed and Series A rounds in March 2026.
Unlike Pentera, which runs real attacks against a customer's defences, Brava simulates only the evidence an attack would leave. Tech Funding News cited MarketsandMarkets estimates that the AI security operations market will be worth $18.1bn in 2026 and $47.07bn by 2031.
What the money is for
Brava will spend the money on product development and on expanding its commercial team in North America, where it plans to target financial services, government and energy customers. Its research and development will stay in Israel.
In its announcement, Basre wrote that the company wants Brava to become the ground truth that the SOC runs on.
Company website: brava.security