McAfee buys privateness app of Israeli co Mine

Safety functions firm McAfee, which previously maintained a improvement middle in Israel, was acquired by Intel, and was finally purchased by non-public traders, is shopping for the privateness app of Israeli startup MineOS, based by Kobi Nissan, Gal Golan, and Man Ringel. McAfee is shopping for an asset, not the staff – all of Mine’s staff will proceed to work on the firm. McAfee is shopping for a enterprise that Mine wished to spin off with the intention to concentrate on B2B.

The businesses refused to touch upon numbers, however in accordance with estimates the deal is price a couple of tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}. Mine is a reasonably small firm, using 50 folks in Tel Aviv and Boston. Up to now, it has raised $42 million from Battery Ventures, Haim Saban’s Saban Ventures, PayPal, and Google’s AI fund, amongst different traders. The final funding spherical within the firm, amounting to $30 million, closed in direction of the tip of 2023, and was led by Battery Ventures senior accomplice Scott Tobin, a veteran of the enterprise capital business within the US who additionally heads the agency’s Israel workplace.

The app for private customers obtainable on cellular shops, SayMine, can be shut down by the tip of the yr, and the expertise can be included into McAfee’s functions. It was launched in early 2020 with the goal of serving to customers to grasp the place their private info was saved, and the way it was potential to demand its erasure, in a user- pleasant method. Mine now seeks to focus solely on merchandise for the enterprise market, during which it’s already energetic, with prospects akin to Ford, Wiz, Miro, Shark-Ninja, HelloFresh, and Selfridges. Its platform permits organizations to work sooner, to satisfy regulatory necessities in privateness and AI, and thus scale back dangers with out imposing guide processes on IT privateness and compliance groups.

Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on November 24, 2025.