Lighting the Next Chapter: What This Round Means for Daylight, and for Cybersecurity
Every startup hopes for product-market fit. Few get to experience what happens when demand outpaces expectations. At Daylight, that’s exactly what we are seeing, and this series A funding marks a major milestone in our journey.
We’ve raised $33 million in Series A funding, bringing our total to $40 million, in one of the fastest follow-on rounds in cybersecurity this year. The round was led by Craft Ventures, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Maple VC, and some of the most respected founders and investors in the industry.
This round isn’t just a validation of our vision. It’s proof of the incredible momentum we’ve built in less than a year. In this short time, dozens of enterprises across the U.S. and Europe, including The Motley Fool, Cresta, and McKinsey Investment Office, have chosen Daylight to transform their security operations. The impact has been immediate: deployments completed in under an hour, up to 90% fewer false positives, and faster, deeper investigations that resolve threats, not just escalate them. It’s rare to see this level of adoption and measurable results so quickly, and it’s a clear sign that the market is ready for what Daylight represents.
A New Era Demands a New Model
Security leaders everywhere are realizing that traditional MDRs can’t keep up. Manual triage, slow response times, and endless escalations leave teams exhausted and exposed.
Daylight changes that equation. Our platform is built on a cutting-edge AI-core, and augmented with PhD-level human analysts, delivering one continuous system that learns, adapts, and acts autonomously, delivering resolutions, not alerts. We call this new model Managed Agentic Security Services (MASS).
With MASS, enterprises can finally scale defense without scaling headcount. It unifies what were once separate domains - AI, automation, and elite human expertise, into a seamless, continuous service that delivers measurable, autonomous protection around the clock. And while MASS begins with redefining Managed Detection and Response, that’s just the starting point. The same agentic foundation will soon power additional managed security services, from identity threat response to cloud workload protection, extending autonomous defense across the entire enterprise ecosystem.
Momentum That Speaks Louder Than Words
The excitement around Daylight isn’t theoretical, it’s operational, measurable, and growing by the day. Our momentum comes from results that customers can see, not just promises on a slide.
In less than six months, our customer base has expanded rapidly across industries and geographies, with many of the world’s most forward-thinking security leaders reaching out after hearing about Daylight from peers. Nearly all of our growth has come through word of mouth and referrals. This is the strongest validation any company can hope for.
CISOs tell us the same thing, again and again: “This is what MDR was always supposed to be.” They see the difference immediately, deployments completed in hours, not weeks; alerts resolved instead of escalated; and a level of context-aware investigations that eliminate noise instead of adding to it.
Every new deployment strengthens our belief that enterprises are ready for managed agentic security services that can adapt, act autonomously, and account for real outcomes. That’s exactly what Daylight delivers.
We’re now expanding our go-to-market across North America, strengthening our analyst operations world-wide, and accelerating the release of new modules for identity threat response and cloud workload protection. Each of these innovations pushes us closer to a fully autonomous, self-evolving SOC that learns from every signal.
Where We Go From Here
Our mission, to make world-class cyber defense accessible, adaptive, and truly effective, hasn’t changed. But our reach and momentum have exceeded every expectation. What started as a small, focused team with a bold idea has evolved into a fast-growing force that’s reshaping how enterprises protect themselves.
Every new customer, every integration, and every resolved incident strengthens the collective intelligence of the Daylight platform. Our system learns continuously, not just from data, but from real-world experience, improving accuracy, context awareness, and response actions with every investigation.
Behind that progress stands an extraordinary team. Our analysts, engineers, and operators who work tirelessly across time zones to keep customers secure - they are the heartbeat of Daylight. Our customers, who believed in us early, trusting us to protect their businesses before we had the brand recognition, gave us our foundation. To our investors and partners who share our conviction that security must evolve - thank you for helping us turn this vision into velocity.
The future of cybersecurity is agentic, adaptive, and autonomous, driven by intelligent systems that think, act, and learn alongside humans. At Daylight, that future isn’t a concept. It’s already here, and it’s getting brighter every day.
