The seed round was led by Cardumen Capital with participation from The Group Ventures, and includes notable backers such as Udi Mokady (CyberArk founder) and other angels from Rollout Ventures.

The company is shifting breach detection toward pre-attack prevention, aiming to identify and block pre-attack indicators (IoPA) such as attacker infrastructure, C&C servers, and phishing kits before they are weaponized.

Malanta collaborates with registrars to takedown domains and with Safe Browsing services to block access to malicious infrastructure targeting its customers.

The company claims it uncovers IoPAs weeks before they become malicious and before traditional indicators of compromise (IOCs) are detectable by other vendors.

Malanta’s platform analyzes digital breadcrumbs left by attackers to forecast when assets will be weaponized, enabling proactive defense rather than reactive alerts.

The founding team comprises Kobi Ben Naim (CEO), Guy Ben Arie (Engineering), Yossi Dantes (Product), and Tal Kandel (Business), all with CyberArk backgrounds and AI-security expertise.

Malanta was founded in July 2024 in Tel Aviv by the same core team, formerly associated with CyberArk.

Seed funding will be used to expand engineering and go-to-market efforts, enhance IoPA detection capabilities, and improve integration with existing security systems.

It targets AI-driven attackers, using Indicators of Pre-Attack (IoPA) signals from early internet activity to disrupt adversaries before they automate reconnaissance or exploit vulnerabilities.

Malanta, a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup, emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed funding led by Cardumen Capital and The Group Ventures, with angel investors including Udi Mokady, Benny Schneider, Harel Prag, and Amit Greener.

Malanta debuted with a pre-attack prevention platform designed to stop AI-driven threats before they materialize.

The company uses neural exposure mapping to rapidly chart a customer’s digital footprint and surface emerging threats, enabling proactive disruption of attacks.

For each new client, Malanta maps digital assets and correlates them with discovered adversary infrastructures to identify imminent threats and guide protective steps.

Malanta reports deployments across financial services, tech, government, and software sectors, including collaboration with the National Cyber Directorate, which allegedly used the platform to dismantle adversary infrastructure targeting Israeli companies.

The announcement frames Malanta as redefining security effectiveness by prioritizing pre-attack prevention over traditional post-breach responses.

Malanta operates with an AI-driven, autonomous approach, conducting unknown asset discovery and enabling machine-speed disruption without human-in-the-loop involvement.

Analysts project the AI and cybersecurity market to reach about $86 billion by 2026, highlighting growing demand for pre-attack defense solutions.

Funding will also broaden the platform to detect attacker infrastructure earlier in the threat lifecycle and scale data sources for IoPA detection.