TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 12, 2025--
Sweet Security, a leader in Runtime CNAPP and AI security solutions, today announced it has raised $75 million in Series B funding led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from Munich Re Ventures, Glilot Capital Partners, and Key1 Capital, bringing the company’s total funding to $120 million. The investment will accelerate global expansion and product innovation to meet fast growing enterprise demand for real-time protection across the entire cloud, AI systems, and production environments. Sweet also introduced new AI security capabilities that secure models, agents, and the full AI lifecycle, further strengthening its leadership in the emerging Runtime CNAPP and AI security market.
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As the CNAPP market shifts toward runtime-first protection, Sweet has emerged as the preferred platform among global enterprises, displacing incumbent vendors and redefining how organizations secure production environments. The funding follows a year of hypergrowth for Sweet, marked by a sixfold increase in ARR and a tenfold rise in enterprise customers, including multiple Fortune 1000 organizations. The company’s leadership is reinforced by a newly granted U.S. patent, covering features like training an LLM to identify anomalous log sessions – dramatically reducing noise and exposing complex, multi-step attacks that traditional rule-based systems miss.
“Sweet Security stands out in one of the most competitive segments of cybersecurity,” said Richard Seewald, Founder and Managing Partner at Evolution Equity Partners. “The company’s ability to combine real-time cloud protection with AI-powered intelligence is unlike anything else in the market – redefining how enterprises secure the modern cloud and go about securing their AI environments.”
Redefining the CNAPP Market While Pioneering the AI Security Market
As agentic AI becomes more prominent in organization workflows and gains access to business critical data sources, it brings with it a host of new risks – from lacking even simple visibility through intricate vulnerabilities and emerging kinds of attacks, not found in traditional microservices.
To solve this gap, Sweet offers an AI Security Platform (AISP), which gives AI teams the ability to discover every model and agent, understand how they interact, and identify misconfigurations or over-permissioned access before they create risk. Building on its runtime-powered cloud protection, Sweet now brings the same comprehensive insight and control to AI environments:
The result is organizations where AI teams can build, deploy, and operationalize AI systems that are both high-performing and resilient by design.
“No one else approaches runtime cloud and AI protection the way we do,” said Dror Kashti, co-founder and CEO of Sweet Security. “Cloud attacks no longer follow predictable patterns - they evolve dynamically, just like the AI systems enterprises are now building. Protecting those environments demands real-time understanding of how models, agents, and workloads behave - not static snapshots of configurations.”
“Sweet Security has built a leading runtime cloud security offering, extending robust protection across cloud, data, workloads, and AI,” said James Berthoty, Latio Tech. “This enables teams to secure both traditional and AI applications running in the cloud."
About Sweet Security
Sweet Security is redefining enterprise cloud protection. As the leading provider of Runtime CNAPP solutions and a pioneer in AI Security, Sweet unifies runtime context with advanced AI intelligence to protect the modern enterprise across applications, workloads, and infrastructure. Its platform delivers real-time detection and response, vulnerability and posture management, identity threat protection, and API security – powered by its patented, LLM-driven detection engine, reducing alert noise to just 0.04%. By bridging cloud and AI security, Sweet enables organizations to accelerate innovation, reduce operational risk, and achieve industry-leading MTTR times.
Sweet Security was founded by Dror Kashti, CEO, Eyal Fisher, CPO, and Orel Ben Ishay VP R&D. Privately funded, Sweet is backed by Evolution Equity Partners, Munich Re Ventures, Glilot Capital Partners, CyberArk Ventures, and an elite group of angel investors. For more information, users can visit sweet.security.
Sweet Security Raises $75M in Series B. Pictured (left to right): Eyal Fisher, co-founder and CPO; Dror Kashti, co-founder and CEO; Orel Ben Ishay, co-founder and VP R&D.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran hit an oil tanker off the coast of Qatar and Kuwait’s airport on Wednesday while airstrikes battered Tehran — an unrelenting tempo hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was nearly ready to wind down the war.
Trump, who is scheduled to address the nation later in the day, said he could walk away from the war in two to three weeks once he felt confident Iran would not be able to build a nuclear weapon — even if Tehran does not agree to a ceasefire.
That raised the possibility that the U.S. could withdraw without any guarantee from Iran that it would stop bombing its Gulf Arab neighbors or release its grip on the crucial Strait of Hormuz. A fifth of the world’s traded oil passes through the strait in peacetime and Tehran’s stranglehold, along with its strikes on energy infrastructure in the region, has caused oil prices to skyrocket, with far-reaching consequences for the global economy. Even if the strait were to reopen quickly, some effects like higher food prices could persist for months or longer.
It’s also not clear what Israel, which began bombing Iran alongside the U.S. on Feb. 28, would do if the U.S. pulls out without a deal. It also leaves open the question of what Iran might do with the highly enriched uranium still in its stockpiles.
Trump’s comments offered another mixed signal from the American leader who has offered shifting objectives for the war and repeatedly said it could be over soon while also threatening to widen the conflict. Thousands of additional U.S. troops are currently heading to the Middle East, and speculation abounds about the purpose of their deployment.
Just days ago, Trump warned that the U.S. would attack Iran’s power plants if Tehran did not reopen the strait by April 6. He has also threatened to attack Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub and possibly desalination plants.
But on Tuesday, Trump said the U.S. “will not have anything to do with” ensuring the security of ships passing through Hormuz.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi signaled Tehran’s willingness to keep fighting.
“You cannot speak to the people of Iran in the language of threats and deadlines,” he said. “We do not set any deadline for defending ourselves.”
Trump has been under growing pressure to end the war as oil prices have skyrocketed, pushing up the cost of gasoline, food and other goods. The spot price of Brent crude, the international standard, was up more than 40% since the start of the war, trading at more than $103 a barrel on Wednesday.
The U.S. has presented Iran with a 15-point plan aimed at bringing about a ceasefire, including a demand for the strait to be reopened and for is nuclear program to be rolled back.
Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful. Its own five-point response includes retaining sovereignty over the strait.
In the interview with Al Jazeera, Araghchi acknowledged receiving direct messages from U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff. He insisted, however, that there were no direct negotiations and said Iran has no faith that talks with the U.S. could yield any results, saying “the trust level is at zero.”
He warned against any U.S. attempt to launch a ground offensive, saying “we are waiting for them.”
A cruise missile slammed into an oil tanker off Qatar’s coast Wednesday, the Defense Ministry said. The 21-member crew of the tanker, contracted by state-owned QatarEnergy, was evacuated and no casualties were reported.
A fully-loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker came under attack off Dubai the day before, one of more than 20 ships attacked by Iran during the war.
In the United Arab Emirates, a person was killed when he was hit by debris from an intercepted drone in Fujairah, one of the country’s seven emirates.
Bahrain sounded two alerts for incoming missiles, while Kuwait’s state-run KUNA news agency said a drone hit a fuel tank at Kuwait International Airport, sparking a large fire.
Two drones were also intercepted in Saudi Arabia, and air raid sirens sounded in Israel though there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
An airstrike on Tehran, meanwhile, appeared to have hit the former U.S. Embassy compound, which has been controlled by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard since American diplomats were held hostage there in 1979.
Witnesses said buildings outside the massive compound had their windows blown out and that it appears the strike happened inside the walled facility.
Israel also said it hit a plant in Iran producing fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. Israel and the United States have alleged in recent years that Iran was experimenting with using fentanyl in chemical weapons.
Iran acknowledged a strike Tuesday on Tofigh Daru factory, but insisted it only supplied “hospital drugs.” Hospitals use fentanyl to treat severe pain but it can also be fatal.
In Lebanon, at least five people were killed in an Israeli strike on a Beirut neighborhood.
Israel invaded southern Lebanon after the Iran-linked Hezbollah militant group began launching missiles into northern Israel days after the outbreak of the war. Many Lebanese fear another prolonged military occupation.
More than 1,200 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 1 million displaced, according to authorities. Ten Israeli soldiers have also died there.
In Iran, authorities say more than 1,900 people have been killed, while 19 have been reported dead in Israel. More than two dozen people have died in Gulf states and the occupied West Bank, while 13 U.S. service members have been killed.
Rising reported from Bangkok. Associated Press writers Giovanna Dell’Orto in Miami and Samy Magdy in Cairo contributed to this report.
A young girl is comforted by her father and Israeli soldiers as they take cover in a bomb shelter during air raid sirens warning of incoming Iranian missile strikes in Bnei Brak, Israel, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
People inspect the site of an Israeli strike amid debris and damaged vehicles in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
A man feeds stray cats in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
The Indian flagged LPG carrier Jag Vasant transporting liquefied petroleum gas, is seen at the Mumbai Port in Mumbai, India, after it arrived clearing the Strait of Hormuz, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Firefighters and rescue workers work at the site of Israeli airstrikes, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A firefighter extinguishes a car at the site of Israeli airstrikes, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Israel's rescue teams and residents take shelter as sirens sounds next to a site struck by an Iranian missile in Bnei Brak, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
A police vehicle is seen through a shattered windshield at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Two men ride scooters past charred debris at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
