Huskeys, a Tel Aviv cybersecurity startup, closed a $27 million Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, valuing the company over $100 million and bringing total funding to $35 million.
The round closed around Sept. 2, 2026, six months after an $8 million seed round in March 2026. Huskeys builds a software layer that sits atop existing web application firewalls to filter and manage AI-generated traffic hitting corporate networks—a problem that did not exist three years ago.
The core product, which Huskeys calls Network Edge Security Management, analyzes traffic patterns in real time to distinguish between benign AI agents and malicious ones. The system processes over one trillion web requests daily across its client base and manages thousands of network configurations simultaneously.
The business model hinges on a simple leverage point: companies already spend heavily on edge security infrastructure. Huskeys wraps an agentic AI layer on top of those sunk costs, creating a thin but high-margin integration play. The company's customers include TikTok, LEGOLAND, Ro, Hugging Face, and Blackstone itself—a sign the investor ran its own tests before writing a check.
Hugging Face's adoption is strategically notable. As a primary hub for AI model hosting and deployment, the platform sits at the center of agent-traffic proliferation. Its use of Huskeys signals where traffic volume is heading.
Blackstone Innovations led the round. Skinos Ventures, Zscaler Ventures, and Okta Ventures also participated, alongside individual investors from Google, Microsoft, and Intel.
Co-founders Itai Gafni and Roy Weisfeld both graduated from Israel's Unit 8200 intelligence unit, which has produced founders of Check Point and Wiz. The pedigree matters: enterprise security in Israel tends toward hard technical depth and customer traction over growth-at-all-costs positioning.
