Guardz co-founder and CEO Dor Eisner wants MSPs to know that the cybersecurity platform company “is playing for the long run,” adding that “cybersecurity for small businesses is going to be the biggest market in the next decade or so.”
Yesterday, the company announced that it has raised $56 million in Series B funding, bringing total funding to $84M in just over two years.
“We did about five 500% growth in 2024, and we realized this is great momentum to raise more capital and to grow even faster,” Eisner tells MSP Success.
Founded in 2022 by Eisner and Alon Lavi, the Tel Aviv, Israel-based Guardz came out of stealth in 2023. The company has grown to 85 employees and has more than 500 MSPs using its platform, according to Eisner.
The latest round of funds, Eisner says, will go into engineering, go-to-market initiatives, and expanding its Miami, Florida, office.
“We are planning to grow the company to about 150 employees in the next year or so. So doubling the size of the company and also investing in the right community involvement.”
Connecting the Dots
The Guardz platform is purpose-built for MSPs to secure their small business clients. Asked how Guardz differentiates from other cybersecurity platform providers, Eisner says, “Guardz is redefining the detection and response market force for MSPs and small businesses. We’ve built a unified security platform where we are able to connect the dots across identities, MS devices, and everything in between. And the evolution of AI is definitely fueling our business because we are basically AI-native detection and response. That’s what we are doing from day zero. And the ability to do it even faster with the LLMs that are out there today [and] commoditized is helping us to provide better detection and response and better overall cybersecurity protection for those [small] businesses. That’s the backbone of the economy.”
For MSPs, he says, “Operationalized cybersecurity is the biggest challenge today. It is not about the tools that you have in your arsenal, it’s not about the protections that you put in. it’s about how you connect the dots. It’s about how you streamline security operations for your clients, and it’s how you show the value and improve the value over time that you, as an MSP, are on top of things. So you need to have the right reports, the right automation, and everything that connects the dots. That’s what Guardz is bringing to the MSP community today. And we’ll continue to double down on this motion in the years to come because we are here to be the big company, to be the ‘Palo Alto of cybersecurity’ for MSPs and small businesses. That’s our vision and that’s our mission.”
The Series B investment was led by ClearSky, with participation from new investor Phoenix Financial and existing investors Glilot Capital Partners, SentinelOne, Hanaco Ventures, iAngels, GKFF Ventures, Lumir, and others.
For an in-depth conversation with Eisner, see our Q&A from earlier this year: Guardz CEO: MSPs Need AI-Driven MDR to Stay Ahead of Threats
