Gambit Security Raises $61 Million to Build AI-Native Enterprise Resilience Platform

Key Takeaways

1. Tel Aviv-based Gambit Security emerged from stealth with $61 million in combined Seed and Series A funding, backed by Spark Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Cyberstarts.
2. The $61 million was raised in under 12 months. Of this, $5 million came from an earlier Seed round, with the remaining ~$56 million in the Series A. The company now has 60+ employees, most based in Israel.
3. Gambit’s own analysis found that only about 5% of enterprise systems are truly resilient against ransomware attacks, despite widespread backup coverage, highlighting a massive gap the platform aims to close.
4. Co-founders Alon Gromakov (CEO), Sa’ar Elias (CPO), and May Kogan (CTO) are all veterans of Israel’s elite Unit 8200 intelligence unit who previously worked together at cybersecurity startup Sentra.

Quick Recap

On February 25, 2026, Gambit Security officially emerged from over a year of stealth operations, announcing $61 million in combined Seed and Series A funding. The round was led by Spark Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Cyberstarts, with Cyberstarts General Partner Lior Simon leading the investment. The announcement was also shared via social media by Grishin Robotics and the founding team on LinkedIn, confirming the company’s readiness to compete in the enterprise resilience market.

Gambit Security emerged from stealth with $61M across Seed and Series A to build an AI-native enterprise resilience platform that continuously validates whether organizations can recover from disruption, not just detect threats.
Why this matters: most security and backup spend… pic.twitter.com/QiyLOeVgiV

— Grishin Robotics (@GrishinRobotics) March 2, 2026

AI That Maps Your Recovery Gaps in Real Time

Gambit Security positions itself as the first AI-native resilience platform purpose-built for continuous, verifiable enterprise resilience. Unlike traditional backup and disaster recovery solutions that rely on static recovery plans and periodic tabletop exercises, Gambit’s platform connects directly to an organization’s security systems, cloud infrastructure, backup tools, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Once connected, the platform autonomously maps infrastructure and backup data, identifies resilience gaps that could undermine recovery, and continuously measures preparedness against evolving threats. The result is a real-time “resilience score” displayed in a dashboard, paired with remediation suggestions that help CISOs and IT leaders act before an incident occurs.

There is also a cost-reduction angle. By flagging duplicate and outdated backups, Gambit typically reduces cloud storage costs by at least 10%, with additional savings on cyber-insurance premiums and compliance overhead. CEO Alon Gromakov emphasized the core problem in the launch announcement: “Pouring more money into security and backup tools has become an unwinnable race. Recovery has fallen decades behind”.

AI-Powered Attacks Are Outpacing Static Defenses

The timing of Gambit’s launch is far from accidental. Alongside its funding announcement, the company published new research revealing how a single AI-directed attacker compromised nine Mexican government entities, exposing 195 million personal identities. The operation was executed using over 1,000 prompts to Anthropic’s Claude Code, with data periodically passed to OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 for analysis.

This case study serves as a stark reminder that offensive AI capabilities are accelerating, making static defense-only strategies increasingly inadequate. The broader enterprise resilience and data protection market is seeing a surge of investment. Just four months before Gambit’s launch, Eon.io raised $300 million at a $4 billion valuation for its cloud backup and data management platform.

Established players like Zerto (now part of HPE) and Cohesity continue to dominate the legacy disaster recovery space. Regulatory pressure around business continuity, particularly in financial services and critical infrastructure, is also intensifying globally, creating a favorable tailwind for startups focused on real-time resilience validation.

Competitive Landscape

Gambit Security enters a market with a mix of well-funded startups and incumbent vendors. Below is a comparison against two of its most relevant competitors at similar or adjacent stages:

Eon.io operates at a significantly larger scale in terms of funding and valuation, but its primary strength lies in turning backup data into AI-ready data lakes rather than continuous resilience validation. Zerto remains the industry standard for continuous data protection with near-zero RPOs, but its architecture predates the AI-native approach that Gambit brings to gap detection and autonomous remediation. Where Gambit stands apart is in its specific focus on measuring and validating recovery readiness in real time, a niche that neither Eon nor Zerto address as their primary value proposition.

Bayelsa Watch’s Takeaway

I think this is a big deal, and here is why. In my experience covering cybersecurity funding rounds, the combination of a $61 million raise from tier-one VCs like Kleiner Perkins and Spark Capital, a founding team with deep Unit 8200 pedigree, and real enterprise customers before even exiting stealth is rare at this stage. The 5% resilience statistic that Gambit uncovered is genuinely alarming and should be a wake-up call for every CIO relying on checkbox-style backup strategies.

I generally prefer to see startups that solve problems incumbents have ignored rather than ones competing head-to-head with established giants, and Gambit fits that profile. The AI-attack research on the Mexican government breach adds credibility and urgency to their thesis.