Sonae, through its venture capital arm Bright Pixel, participated in the $27 million funding round of Israeli cybersecurity startup Huskeys. This round brought the company's valuation to over $100 million and raised Huskeys' total capital raised to date to $35 million.
The round was led by Blackstone Innovations Investments and also featured participation from other investors, including Merlin Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Zscaler Ventures, Okta Ventures, and SV Angel. Among the individual investors, Eran Reshef, inventor of WAF and CAPTCHA, and executives from organizations such as Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare, Check Point, AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Intel stand out.
Huskeys develops artificial intelligence agents that help companies manage unwanted non-human traffic. According to the startup's CEO and founder, Itai Gafni, the platform analyzes over one billion web requests daily and thousands of network configurations in organizations across different geographies.
Among Huskeys' clients are TikTok, LEGOLAND, Ro, Blackstone, and Hugging Face. Bright Pixel Capital stated that it believes in the relevance and distinction of Huskeys' approach, which enables unified security management over existing technologies.
