How Cyera Went from $0 to $6B and Why We’re Just Getting Started

There’s a shift happening in cybersecurity: one that puts data and AI at the very center of enterprise risk, innovation, and resilience.

Today, Cyera is announcing a new $540 million Series E round, bringing our total funding to over $1.3 billion. This round comes just six months after our previous funding, and in that time we doubled our customer base and doubled our valuation, reaching $6 billion.

But this milestone is bigger than a number. It is not about momentum for its own sake. It’s about conviction.

Conviction that data is the new attack surface. Conviction that AI is accelerating this risk, and transforming what security needs to be. And conviction that solving data security at scale is the foundation modern enterprises need to move forward.

This raise is an affirmation, a clear signal from the market, our customers, and our investors, that data and AI are now the new frontier of cybersecurity.

The Shift Is Here

AI is no longer on the horizon. It’s here. Enterprises are deploying copilots, integrating AI tools, training internal LLMs, and they’re moving fast.

But as every security team knows, speed without security is a risk multiplier.

Every one of these AI initiatives is powered by data: proprietary, sensitive, constantly changing. That data is now in more places, used by more systems, and exposed to more risk than ever before.

This is the new attack surface, and it’s growing exponentially.

A Platform Built for This Moment

At Cyera, we anticipated this shift. Not because we had a crystal ball, but because we listened to our customers from day one.

They weren’t asking for another dashboard. They needed real answers to tough questions:

• Where is my data?
  
• What’s sensitive?
  
• Who’s accessing it?
  
• How is it being used?

We built Cyera to provide those answers in real time, across the entire data estate, from cloud to SaaS to LLMs to on-prem, wherever data is. Everywhere.

Cyera’s data security platform isn’t a point solution. It’s foundational. It’s how modern enterprises secure data in the AI era.

The Conviction Behind the Capital

We didn’t raise this round to chase a trend. We raised it because the market made it clear: the time is now, and we’re the platform customers are betting on.

Our investors - Georgian, Greenoaks, Lightspeed - and our long-time partners at Accel, Cyberstarts, Coatue, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia, and more - heard that same urgency. They heard it directly from the CISOs, CIOs, and AI teams they work with:

“We can’t move forward with AI until we have Cyera in place.”

That level of conviction drove this raise. And it’s what fuels our urgency.

Unprecedented Momentum

In the last 18 months, we’ve:

• Reached 353% year-over-year growth among F500 customers
  
• 12x’d our valuation
  
• Expanded into 10+ countries
  
• Grown our team by 500+ people
  
• Launched 9 new products
  
• Secured visibility into over a zettabyte of enterprise data
  
• And welcomed Frank Slootman to our Board

We’ve partnered with the largest GSIs and are securing the biggest companies in every major industry. At the center of it all, are our customers. Customers who have helped us crystallize our product, sharing their burning issues and their pinpointed feedback. 

Cyera’s trajectory is the steepest ever in data security, reaching $6B in under 4 years, faster than nearly any other private company in the category, especially in AI-native security. But there’s a lot of sweat too: today’s raise is the result of the problem being dire, the team being world-class, and the mission being critical.

What Comes Next

This raise gives us the fuel to move even faster: expanding and deepening our platform, growing our footprint, and supporting more of the world’s leading organizations.

But our mission hasn’t changed: We’re here to build the data security platform for the AI age.

We’re here to give enterprises the clarity and confidence to embrace AI responsibly, so these companies can go on and thrive.

And we’re here to redefine what cybersecurity means in a world where data is everything, and AI touches all of it.

Signing off with a thank you to our customers: for your partnership and trust.

To our investors: thank you for your belief in the long game.

And finally, to our Cyera team: you are the reason this is possible. You’ve built something extraordinary, and we’re just getting started.

Let’s go.