Huskeys, an Israel-based Edge Security Management (ESM) platform, has raised $8M in seed funding led by 10D Ventures. The agentic AI platform unifies and optimizes existing web application firewalls (WAFs), CDNs, and edge infrastructure without replacement. The capital will fuel R&D expansion and sales team growth.
Israeli Cyber Wave Accelerates
The round arrives amid a surge in Israeli cybersecurity investments, including Surf AI's $57M raise in March 2026. Wallarm previously secured $75M for its AI-powered WAF platform. Huskeys targets enterprises frustrated with multi-vendor WAF sprawl, offering non-disruptive optimization where replacements fall short.
WAFs Fail Dynamic Threats
Legacy WAFs generate excessive false positives, manual tuning burdens, and performance hits amid API proliferation and AI-driven attacks. Enterprises like theme parks and social media platforms manage complex stacks from AWS WAF, Cloudflare, and others. An industry article declared "Web Application Firewalls Are Broken And Everyone Knows It", highlighting widespread CISO frustration with ineffectiveness and overhead.
Agentic AI Layers on Legacy
Huskeys' ESM provides Edge Posture Management to measure gaps, Application Rule Tuning with business-context rules, and Orchestration for automated rule lifecycles. Unlike Wallarm's full replacement model, Huskeys augments any existing WAF. Early customers TikTok and Merlin Entertainments report 80%+ false positive reductions and $2.4M annual traffic savings.
As Huskeys CEO Itai Gafni noted:
“Huskeys was built to integrate within minutes and deliver value within hours – not weeks. Now teams can stop guessing and turn their WAF from a business blocker into a revenue generator.”
Elite Investors Validate ESM
10D Ventures led with participation from SV Angel, toDay Ventures, Merlin Ventures, and Alumni Ventures Group, plus over 100 angels including CISOs and athletes. These backers bring cyber exits like Reposify to CrowdStrike and Enso to Snyk. The syndicate signals conviction in Huskeys' augmentation approach for the shift to agentic security.
WAF Market Scales to $31B
The web application firewall market stands at $10.13B in 2026, projected to reach $30.86B by 2034 at a 14.9% CAGR, driven by API threats and multi-cloud complexity. Wallarm's report names APIs as the top attack surface. Huskeys positions ESM as the control plane for this fragmented edge.
Unit 8200 Founders Lead Charge
Founders Itai Gafni (CEO) and Roy Weisfeld (CTO), both ex-Unit 8200, met on an AI-enhanced web hacking project. Their expertise delivered 40%+ performance gains for Merlin. Participation in CrowdStrike’s accelerator adds strategic validation.
R&D and Sales Expansion Ahead
With ~20 employees mostly in Israel, Huskeys plans R&D and sales team growth to scale deployments. AWS Marketplace listing supports broader adoption. The out-of-stealth timing aligns with industry calls for WAF fixes.