Vega, an Israeli cybersecurity startup, raised $120m in a Series B round announced on 10 February 2026. Existing investor Accel led the round, and Cyberstarts, Redpoint and CRV took part, according to SecurityWeek.
SecurityWeek and Pulse 2.0 put Vega's total funding at $185m in under two years, while Globes gave $182m. The company emerged from stealth in September 2025 with $65m. Valuation reports conflict: Calcalist gave $800m in the body of its article and $700m in a related headline, and Globes cited market estimates of $800m. Vega said only that the round nearly doubled its valuation, so no figure is used here.
“Security operations should not require data centralization, migration, and high cost just to function.”Shay Sandler, Co-founder and CEO, Vega
What Vega does
Vega sells security analytics that run on data where it already sits, rather than first moving it into a central store. The company argues that traditional security information and event management (SIEM) systems require data to be centralised before it can be used for threat detection, and that AI is only as good as the data it can reach.
Its platform uses AI to help security operations teams write detections, draws on a continuously updated list of detections from Vega, and finds coverage gaps and noisy rules. Globes described it as covering the whole security operations workflow, from detection and investigation to response and AI triage. Calcalist said the company calls its product an AI-native Security Analytics Mesh, and Pulse 2.0 described it as a federated platform covering visibility, detection, triage and response without data migration, new pipelines or added silos.
Founders and team
Vega was founded in 2024 by chief executive Shay Sandler and chief technology officer Eli Rozen. Both are veterans of Israel's Unit 8200 and both worked at Granulate, the application-performance company that Intel bought in 2022 for $650m, according to Globes. The company has more than 100 employees in Tel Aviv and New York, according to Globes and SecurityWeek.
It recently hired Yonni Shelmerdine as chief product officer and Ofir Nir as head of research and development, Calcalist reported. Shelmerdine was previously chief product officer at Expel; Nir was vice president of research and development at Singular and monday.com.
Customers and what the money is for
Pulse 2.0 said the company is expanding rapidly across the United States. Vega said it is signing multi-million-dollar contracts with global banks, healthcare organisations and Fortune 200 companies. It named none of them.
The company said the money will go to product development and to growing its go-to-market team, particularly in the United States, where Calcalist said most of its growth is concentrated. Calcalist had first reported the round in December, before the formal announcement. Globes said the initial product focus is AI-based triage, investigation flows and case management. Andrei Brasoveanu, a partner at Accel, said the company is showing that large enterprises are ready to move beyond legacy security analytics models.
Company website: vega.io