Huskeys, a year-old cybersecurity startup, has raised $27 million in a Series A funding round led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, valuing the company at over $100 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. The financing brings the firm's total capital to $35 million after an earlier $8 million seed round, with backers including Zscaler Ventures, Okta Ventures, Merlin Ventures, Skinos Ventures, and Bright Pixel Capital. The company is building what it calls Network Edge Security Management to help businesses distinguish between legitimate AI agents and malicious automated traffic without replacing existing security infrastructure.
Founded in 2025 by CEO Itai Gafni and CTO Roy Weisfeld, both former members of Israel's elite Unit 8200, Huskeys already processes more than a trillion web requests and thousands of network configurations each day, with clients including TikTok, LEGOLAND, Ro, Blackstone, and Hugging Face. Revenue roughly quadrupled from one quarter to the next after the company started commercial operations in early 2026, while its customer count roughly quintupled during the same period. The startup has grown to nearly 40 employees after approximately doubling headcount in two months and expects to reach about 50 staff by the end of the year. The new capital will fund expanded sales and marketing efforts in the United States.
The platform links technologies including content delivery networks, Web Application Firewalls, cloud security tools, load balancers, virtual private clouds, and security groups through what Huskeys calls a Unified Data Model, designed to provide security teams with a shared perspective across disparate systems. Features include dynamic policy generation, ongoing security evaluations, and Virtual Patching, which the company says can temporarily address vulnerabilities at the network edge while developers complete permanent code repairs. According to investor Bright Pixel, non-human traffic could represent 70 percent of web traffic by 2027, though the announcement does not cite the origin of that forecast.
The startup's approach targets a challenge businesses face when securing the network edge as applications spread across cloud providers, content delivery networks, firewalls, and other services: security controls can't simply become more restrictive if doing so blocks paying customers. AI is intensifying the problem, as autonomous agents become valid users of online platforms while attackers deploy AI to find and exploit weaknesses more quickly. Blackstone's Adam Fletcher told the Journal that organizations require multiple defensive layers because relying on a single safeguard no longer works. An excessively strict firewall can damage revenue, while permitting risky traffic can expose confidential data.
The company is betting that managed service providers and security partners overseeing complicated customer setups will need a unified layer for handling policies, visibility, and automated traffic across security products from different vendors. The bigger question is whether Network Edge Security Management establishes itself as a category companies genuinely require or becomes just another management tier atop an already crowded security portfolio. Partners will need a solution that can accurately differentiate between types of automated traffic so firms can strengthen security without interrupting valuable activity, particularly as AI agents claim a growing portion of internet use. Huskeys faces the challenge of proving its intelligence layer simplifies operations rather than adding complexity, especially when customers are already managing fragmented security stacks that span multiple vendors and cloud environments.