NEW YORK — Cyera said it raised $400 million in a Series F round led by funds managed by Blackstone, valuing the AI-focused data security company at $9 billion, Jan. 8, 2026. The funding highlights how rapidly enterprises are spending to find and lock down sensitive information as AI tools multiply where data lives and how fast it moves.
Cyera’s $400 million Series F and the $9 billion valuation
Cyera said the round brings total funding to more than $1.7 billion and includes participation from existing backers Accel, Coatue, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Greenoaks, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint, Sapphire, Sequoia Capital and Spark. In its announcement, the company said it plans to use the proceeds to accelerate product development, expand globally and deepen partnerships, leaning into demand from large organizations trying to govern data used in analytics, automation and generative AI.
Read the company’s full announcement in Cyera’s Series F release. Coverage from major outlets described the raise as arriving roughly six months after Cyera’s prior financing and as part of a broader investor push into tools that reduce the risk of data leaks and regulatory violations.
What Cyera does, and why AI is reshaping data security
Cyera sells software that helps companies discover where sensitive data sits across cloud and on-premise systems, classify it, monitor access and flag exposures that can lead to breaches or compliance failures. The pitch has become more urgent as AI projects pull data from more places, increase the number of users and services touching that data, and make accidental sharing easier to miss until it’s too late.
In an interview, Cyera co-founder and CEO Yotam Segev framed the shift bluntly: “Our business had legs before AI. But with AI, it’s got wings.” That momentum has helped the company scale headcount and win large-enterprise customers as boards demand clearer answers about what data is exposed and what guardrails exist before AI systems are put into production.
More reporting on the round is available from Reuters’ funding write-up and TechCrunch’s coverage, while Fortune’s interview with Segev details how Cyera is positioning itself for “agentic” AI-era threats.
Cyera’s fast funding climb
Cyera’s latest valuation jump didn’t happen in isolation. In April 2024, Reuters reported the company raised $300 million at a $1.4 billion valuation as investors chased data-security tools built for cloud-heavy environments and AI-driven analytics. That round, led by Coatue Management, marked Cyera’s leap into the unicorn tier.
By June 2025, Cyera disclosed a $540 million round that valued it at $6 billion, according to multiple reports, as the market for data security posture management and related controls heated up alongside enterprise AI adoption. Axios described the raise as a bet that AI exposure risks would keep rising, while CRN noted Cyera’s expansion into data loss prevention offerings aimed at protecting information “across all environments and tools.”
Those earlier milestones are detailed in Reuters’ April 2024 report, Axios’ June 2025 update and CRN’s June 2025 coverage, which together show how quickly Cyera has moved from early growth to late-stage scale.
With a $9 billion price tag now attached, the next questions for Cyera are less about whether enterprises feel the pain and more about execution: sustaining growth, proving durable outcomes for security teams, and deciding when — or whether — the company is ready to test public markets or pursue more M&A in a consolidating cybersecurity landscape.
