Daylight

Daylight (daylight.ai) is a cybersecurity firm that emerged from stealth in July 2025, securing $7 million in seed funding. The company was founded in late 2024 by CEO Hagai Shapira and CTO Eldad Rudich, both veterans of Israel's intelligence community and early employees at security automation company Torq. Their background in intelligence and security automation directly informs Daylight's approach to cybersecurity challenges.

The company operates in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) market, which is projected to exceed $15 billion by 2030. Daylight targets organizations, particularly in the finance and technology sectors, that lack the resources to maintain large in-house security teams but face increasingly complex cyber threats. Its business model is providing a subscription-based service that combines artificial intelligence with human expertise to offer managed security. The service is designed to address common criticisms of traditional MDR providers, such as an over-reliance on manual processes and a high volume of false-positive alerts.

Daylight's core offering is a hybrid MDR platform that utilizes AI "agents" for initial data analysis, threat investigation, and signal correlation in real-time. This automated investigation is then augmented by human analysts who interpret the findings, make final decisions, and take action to neutralize threats. This fusion of AI and human insight aims to significantly reduce the Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) to threats by as much as 80% and decrease alert fatigue for clients. The platform integrates with a client's existing IT and security stack, including cloud and on-premises systems, and can be deployed in under an hour. Key features include continuous threat hunting, end-to-end incident response, regulatory compliance reporting, and ChatOps collaboration through tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams for real-time communication between Daylight's service and the client's team.

Keywords: Managed Detection and Response, MDR, cybersecurity, AI in cybersecurity, threat detection, incident response, threat hunting, security automation, agentic AI, cyber defense, network security, security operations, information security, endpoint security, cloud security, false positive reduction, MTTR reduction, compliance reporting, security services, IT security