Cybersecurity startup Daylight has announced a $33 million Series A funding round, bringing its total raised to $40 million. Led by Craft Ventures, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Maple VC, and prominent industry figures, the round marks one of the fastest follow-on investments in the sector this year.
Founded less than a year ago, Daylight has rapidly gained traction among enterprises across the U.S. and Europe, including The Motley Fool, Cresta, and McKinsey Investment Office. Its platform delivers measurable impact: deployments in under an hour, up to 90% fewer false positives, and faster threat resolution.
Daylight’s breakthrough lies in its Managed Agentic Security Services (MASS) model, which combines an AI-driven core with PhD-level human analysts. Unlike traditional Managed Detection and Response (MDR) systems that rely on manual triage and slow escalations, MASS offers a unified, autonomous system that learns, adapts, and acts—resolving threats instead of merely flagging them.
The company’s momentum is fueled by word-of-mouth referrals and operational results. CISOs consistently praise Daylight for delivering what MDR was always meant to be: fast, intelligent, and outcome-driven security. With MASS, enterprises can scale defense without increasing headcount, integrating AI, automation, and expert analysis into a seamless service.
Looking ahead, Daylight is expanding its go-to-market efforts across North America, enhancing global analyst operations, and accelerating new modules for identity threat response and cloud workload protection. These innovations aim to build a fully autonomous, self-evolving Security Operations Center (SOC).
Daylight’s mission remains clear: to make adaptive, world-class cyber defense accessible to all. With every deployment, its platform grows smarter, reinforcing its vision of an agentic, autonomous future for enterprise security.
