DataAgent, a Tel Aviv-based startup that builds AI agents to repair failures in cloud infrastructure, emerged from stealth on 1 September 2026 with $10m in pre-seed funding. The round was led by MizMaa Ventures and Alicorn Venture Partners. No other investors were named and the company did not disclose a valuation.
The company said it would use the money to take its platform to market and to speed up customer adoption in North America. It had 15 employees at the time of the announcement and was hiring go-to-market staff in the United States and Israel, according to its press release and CTech.
DataAgent was founded in January 2026, according to its press release and Unite.AI. It is led by co-founder and chief executive Ishay Yaari and co-founder and chief technology officer Nati Shalom, who previously worked together at Cloudify, a cloud orchestration company that Dell acquired in 2023.
“In DataAgent, observability is just one feature – the real product is a self-healing infrastructure.”Ishay Yaari, Co-Founder and CEO, DataAgent
What DataAgent does
DataAgent describes its product as a "remediation-first" platform that acts as an autonomous site reliability engineer for Kubernetes and connected infrastructure. Instead of sending alerts to engineers and helping them diagnose a problem, the software is designed to identify the fault and apply a verified fix itself.
The agents run inside the customer's own cluster and sit alongside existing observability tools rather than replacing them. The platform reads the live state of a system, including its topology and configuration, works out the cause of an incident and restores the service. A fuller root-cause analysis is run afterwards, offline. The company argues that restoring service first shortens mean time to resolution.
According to the press release, the platform acts on its own only for classes of fault where it has already proven it can fix the problem correctly, and sends other cases to human operators. Customers can set guardrails on which actions are allowed. The agent itself is open source and can be run standalone for free, while DataAgent plans to charge for a software-as-a-service layer that manages fleets of agents, Unite.AI reported.
The case against shipping telemetry
A central part of DataAgent's pitch concerns cost. Conventional observability tools collect logs, metrics and other telemetry and send a copy to an outside vendor for analysis, a bill that grows as systems grow. The press release cited Grafana Labs' 2025 Observability Survey, which put observability spending at an average of 17% of total compute infrastructure spending.
Because DataAgent's agents run where the data already sits, the company says customers do not need to transfer telemetry continuously to an external cloud, and only forward data when a fault needs deeper inspection. "When a vendor's revenue is your data ingest, it cannot cut your bill without cutting its own," Yaari said in the release.
The company also said it is building a pre-production component meant to stop failures before code is deployed, which it presents as part of the same lifecycle as its production remediation engine.
Who invested
MizMaa Ventures and Alicorn Venture Partners co-led the round. Catherine Leun, co-founder and partner at MizMaa Ventures, said in the release that DataAgent was moving observability "beyond insight and toward action".
Alexander Assim, managing partner of Alicorn Venture Partners, said the firm was attracted by the company's combination of autonomous remediation with a deployment model that keeps infrastructure and telemetry under the customer's control.
No earlier funding was reported. Yaari and Shalom's previous company, Cloudify, was sold to Dell in a deal that TechCrunch reported could have been worth up to $100m, according to Unite.AI.
Company website: data-agent.co