Israeli AI offensive safety co Novee raises $51.5m

Israeli AI offensive safety firm Novee at present introduced its emergence from stealth with $51.5 million in complete funding, led by YL Ventures, Canaan Companions, and Oren Zeev (Zeev Ventures).

Novee gives steady, AI-driven penetration testing, simulating the subtle ways of real-world hackers. The corporate has developed a penetration testing platform that uncovers novel vulnerabilities, together with advanced enterprise logic flaws that beforehand solely probably the most superior handbook penetration testers might discover. From preliminary exploit validation to automated retesting, Novee gives an end-to-end loop that confirms vital dangers will not be simply recognized however completely eliminated.

Novee was based in Could 2025 by CEO Ido Geffen, COP Gon Chalamish, and CTO Omer Ninburg, veteran offensive safety leaders from the Israel Protection Power’s most elite cybersecurity applications, who led nation-state-level offensive safety operations.

The corporate has 34 staff together with cybersecurity consultants, in addition to AI leaders and researchers. The corporate’s platform truly makes use of AI to simulate actual hacking makes an attempt on enterprise programs, and to carry out steady safety checks that permit it to detect new and sophisticated vulnerabilities, together with failures in enterprise logic that had been beforehand detected primarily via handbook work by consultants.

The platform is already utilized by tech corporations together with HiBob, Ok Well being, Reco, and Cresta. On the identical time, the corporate plans to increase its operations within the US, with an emphasis on establishing business operations within the American market.

Geffen tells “Globes,” “I have been within the cybersecurity world for about 20 years. I began as a fight soldier and paramedic within the Yahalom unit, continued my research in pc science, and labored for a few decade within the Basic Safety Service (Shin Wager) within the discipline of cybersecurity, the place I additionally acquired an award from the Prime Minister.”

He provides, “Penetration testing has till now been a handbook, costly and periodic course of,” and that the corporate has truly educated “a devoted AI mannequin for offensive cyber, which permits such exams to be carried out constantly and at a excessive degree. As cyber attackers use extra AI and assaults change into sooner and extra advanced, the one technique to defend is to search out the vulnerabilities earlier than they do. In lower than 4 months, we managed to boost a big Collection A financing spherical and now our focus is on increasing operations within the US, after we now have established a product and a group that work effectively.”

Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on January 14, 2026.