Fund management giant Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, led a $27 million investment round into Israeli cybersecurity start-up Huskeys, the company announced on Wednesday.
The company was founded in 2025 by IDF’s Unit 8200 alumni Itai Gafni (CEO) and Roy Weisfeld (CTO), and focuses on reducing the risk posed by agentic traffic (traffic produced by AI models instead of humans).
The company explained that, according to its estimates, 70% of internet traffic will be generated by AI agents as of 2027, and organizations will need to differentiate between legitimate customers using agents and malicious attacks.
“Artificial intelligence has changed the way the internet operates, bringing enormous opportunities alongside new security risks and the potential for lost revenue,” said Gafni.
“We believe that, in the near future, most identities operating on the web will be autonomous agents, and organizations will need a new infrastructure capable of identifying, securing, and managing them,” he added.
Company offers solutions to AI internet threats
The company explained that its Virtual Patching system allows Huskeys to identify when an AI agent is trying to breach a system and generate a rapid response within minutes, while a development team can work on it after the situation is brought under control.
Additionally, the company is developing an intelligent platform that centralizes all its clients' security solutions and products and enables rapid monitoring and response.
“Huskeys has built a platform designed to operate across any enterprise network, from the smallest and simplest to the largest and most complex, while advancing a new category for modern internet traffic,” said Adam Fletcher, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Blackstone.
The company said the Blackstone investment marked its first early-stage cybersecurity investment, alongside strategic investments from Okta and Zscaler, and participation from Shlomo Kramer and Yishai Yuval’s Skinos Ventures and Merlin Ventures.
Senior executives from Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, Intel, Check Point, AWS, Microsoft, and Google, actor Assi Cohen, and mentalist Lior Suchard also invested in the company.
“We believe the company is well-positioned to redefine how organizations manage network security, and we are pleased to support Huskeys as it continues to develop its product in this important category,” Fletcher added.