Cyera, an AI-native data security company focused on creating what it calls an enterprise trust layer for the agentic AI era, has secured $600 million in a new funding round, lifting its valuation to $12 billion. The milestone represents a fourfold increase in the company’s value over the past 18 months.
The funding round was led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from Cyberstarts and Temasek, alongside existing investors including Accel, AT&T Ventures, Blackstone, Coatue, and Spark Capital. With this latest investment, Cyera’s total funding has surpassed $2 billion, reinforcing its standing as one of the world’s most highly valued privately held cybersecurity firms.
The investment comes at a time when enterprises are facing growing challenges in managing AI adoption. According to Cyera, 68% of organisations in 2026 are unable to differentiate between human and AI agent activity within their systems. The company argues that this lack of visibility creates a significant barrier to large-scale AI transformation. Its platform is designed to address this issue by providing governance and control over AI access and actions. During the past year, Cyera introduced more than 100 new product capabilities across Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), privacy, identity security, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and agentic security.
Cyera’s AI-native platform is capable of discovering and classifying exabytes of data with accuracy exceeding 95%. It helps organisations identify sensitive information, manage security risks, and enforce access controls without interrupting existing workflows or data pipelines. The company states that its platform uniquely combines DSPM, DLP, identity management, and behavioural security into a single solution, enabling enterprises to oversee and control the data and resources accessible to AI systems.
Cyera attributes this broad functionality to more than 100 product innovations and five strategic acquisitions. Its two most recent acquisitions, Ryft and Genie, contributed specialised technologies designed to support AI governance at enterprise scale.
Founded to tackle the data security challenges associated with enterprise AI adoption, Cyera has expanded rapidly over the past 18 months, growing to more than 1,500 employees across 18 countries. The company has also tripled its annual recurring revenue (ARR) for three consecutive years. Cyera says the new funding will help accelerate its mission of delivering its enterprise trust layer to Fortune 1000 organisations seeking secure and scalable AI adoption.
