Cyera, the data security company valued at $9 billion in its most recent funding round, acquired Genie Security, an Israeli startup that builds endpoint software to stop sensitive data from leaking, Calcalist reported on May 20, 2026. Calcalist estimated the price at about $50 million. Neither company published the terms, and the figure has not been confirmed by Cyera.
Genie had been operating for roughly five months and had five employees at the time of the sale. Its whole team, including both founders, moves into Cyera's enterprise data loss prevention (DLP) division, where it will work on expanding Cyera's endpoint data security. Genie's technology will be built into Cyera's wider platform.
The purchase was the latest in a run of deals for Cyera, which Calcalist counted as its fifth acquisition. A month earlier, Cyera had bought another young Israeli startup, Ryft.
What Genie Security built
Genie developed software that is installed directly on company laptops and other endpoints. It watches for attempts to move sensitive information out of the organisation in real time, whether the leak comes from an employee's own actions or from generative AI tools such as Claude and similar systems.
According to Calcalist, Genie had kept a low profile but already had a commercial product running on hundreds of endpoints at organisations in Israel and the United States. Pulse 2.0, which followed up on the Calcalist report, described the same deployment figures.
Research firm Futurum noted that installing a lightweight agent on devices is not a new idea in itself. Endpoint DLP was popular in the mid-2000s and later fell out of favour because of performance overhead and user friction, Futurum wrote, but generative AI has brought renewed interest in the category.
The founders and the funding
Genie was founded by chief executive Nadav Noy, 30, and chief technology officer Noam Dotan, 31. Noy served in the Israeli military intelligence Unit 8200, where he led projects that received the Israel Defense Award. Dotan came from the IDF's Matzov unit and was part of the founding team at Legit Security, where the two first met. Calcalist reported that they started Genie after long stints of reserve duty following the October 7 attacks.
The company raised $3 million in seed funding led by Mensch Capital and Dynamic Loop. Angel investors included Assaf Rappaport, co-founder and chief executive of Wiz, along with executives from security companies including Okta and Elastic.
At an estimated $50 million for five people, Futurum calculated the price at roughly $10 million per employee, which it described as the high end of pricing for a deal of this kind.
Why Cyera is buying
Cyera sells a data security platform that discovers and classifies data and monitors how it is used. The company says the platform is deployed at 20% of Fortune 500 companies. Calcalist reported that Cyera's workforce has tripled to about 1,500 people across 15 countries.
Futurum described the Genie deal as adding an endpoint layer to that platform: an agent on the device that can catch sensitive data before it leaves through an AI interface or another channel. Its analysts said the main risks for Cyera are integration and retention, since technology bought at an early stage is rarely ready for large enterprise deployments and founders do not always stay after a sale.
A string of security deals
Cyera's earlier acquisitions included Trail Security, which Calcalist valued at about $162 million, as well as Otterize and Shape AI. Ryft, founded in 2024 with about 15 employees, was bought for an estimated $100 million according to Calcalist; Futurum gave a range of $100 million to $130 million.
Futurum said Cyera had raised more than $1.7 billion and reached its $9 billion valuation with a Series F round in January 2026. It placed the deals against a wider consolidation of data security posture management vendors, many of which have been bought by larger platforms such as Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike and Rubrik.
Calcalist linked the Genie deal to growing concern among security teams about how employees' use of generative AI tools changes the way information moves inside companies. Routine actions such as pasting data into an AI assistant can expose sensitive material without the organisation noticing.
