Cyera’s explosive rise in the cybersecurity world just accelerated again, with today’s announcement of a massive $540 million Series E funding round that brings the company’s valuation to $6 billion—doubling in just six months. That figure also pushes its total capital raised to over $1.3 billion, a staggering sum for a company that didn’t exist four years ago. Investors are clearly betting on Cyera not just as a data security leader, but as a foundational player in the rapidly forming AI stack. The round was led by Georgian, Greenoaks, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, and reinforced by a blue-chip syndicate of Accel, Coatue, Cyberstarts, Redpoint, Sapphire, Sequoia, and Spark.
What’s drawing so much capital so quickly is the company’s alignment with one of the most urgent challenges in enterprise tech: securing data as it becomes the fuel for generative AI, copilots, and large language models. With a platform that enables automatic discovery, classification, and protection of sensitive data across cloud and on-prem environments, Cyera is positioning itself not as a reactive cybersecurity tool—but as a proactive enabler of responsible AI deployment at scale. Yotam Segev, Cyera’s CEO and co-founder, put it plainly: “AI runs on GPUs and data. Cyera’s focus on data security is the most critical capability the enterprise needs to adopt AI responsibly.” That framing resonates in a landscape where organizations feel immense pressure to accelerate AI adoption, yet can’t afford to compromise on governance, compliance, or security.
Cyera’s commercial traction reflects that pressure. Over the past 18 months, the company reported 353% year-over-year growth in Fortune 500 accounts, an acquisition of Trail Security to launch a new Omni DLP product, and expansion to ten countries with nearly 800 employees globally. It has gone through three funding rounds during that period, multiplying its valuation twelvefold, and forging global strategic partnerships with system integrators to broaden reach. Those numbers illustrate both urgency and ambition, and the $540 million infusion gives Cyera the resources to pursue its growth through product expansion, strategic acquisitions, and an aggressive hiring push—especially as new AI-native security demands outpace the capabilities of traditional DLP and data governance frameworks.
What’s striking about the statements from investors is their emphasis not just on Cyera’s technology, but its perceived inevitability. Lightspeed’s Guru Chahal noted that CISOs kept bringing up Cyera by name—indicating brand dominance in a critical niche. Greenoaks Partner Patrick Backhouse went further, calling data security an emerging “pillar” of enterprise protection in the AI era, comparable to previous waves that birthed endpoint, network, or identity security platforms. And Steve Leightell of Georgian framed Cyera’s vision as a platform shift—not a feature race—anchored in the transformation of how data is identified, managed, and secured across increasingly fragmented IT environments.
With the addition of heavyweight executives from AWS, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler, and Frank Slootman joining the board, Cyera is clearly arming for a new phase of expansion—possibly even preparing for IPO terrain. More than anything, the momentum shows how fast data security is being redefined: not as a backend compliance checkbox, but as the frontline control plane for any enterprise trying to embrace generative AI without exposing itself to catastrophic risk. Cyera isn’t just surfing that wave—it’s helping shape it.
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