Malanta Emerges from Stealth With $10 Million Seed Round to Redefine Cyber Threat Prevention

Tel Aviv, November 5, 2025 – Israeli cybersecurity startup Malanta has emerged from stealth with a $10 million seed funding round led by Cardumen Capital, with participation from The Group Ventures (TGV) and a number of prominent angel investors, including Udi Mokady, founder and executive chairman of CyberArk.

Malanta’s approach marks a significant evolution in cyber defense: instead of reacting to attacks, the company aims to predict and stop them before they occur. Its platform collects and analyzes what it calls digital breadcrumbs—the subtle traces attackers leave behind while preparing their campaigns—and uses these to forecast when and how they will be weaponized.

“We track attacker behaviors during the setup of their attack infrastructure,” explains Kobi Ben Naim, Malanta’s co-founder and CEO. “Attackers, both human and AI-driven, acquire domains, SSL certificates, servers, email addresses, and code repositories. These preparations leave footprints, and connecting those footprints to a malicious entity is at the core of Malanta’s patented innovation.”

Founded in July 2024 by Ben Naim, Guy Ben Arie, Yossi Dantes, and Tal Kandel—all former CyberArk veterans—Malanta is developing a new class of cybersecurity intelligence it calls Indicators of Pre-Attack (IoPA). By mapping clients’ digital assets and correlating them with adversary infrastructure, Malanta claims it can identify imminent threats weeks or even months before traditional systems detect Indicators of Compromise (IOCs).

“On average, we uncover IoPAs weeks before they turn malicious,” says Ben Naim. “That gives customers time to act before an attack even begins.”

Beyond detection, Malanta actively works with registrars and safe-browsing services to dismantle or block malicious infrastructure before it’s used. The company’s system leverages AI-driven automation to operate at internet scale, reflecting the same speed and adaptability attackers have gained through AI tools.

“Our platform mirrors the modern attacker,” adds Ben Naim. “We don’t have humans in the loop; we use AI to autonomously discover unknown assets and disrupt threats at machine speed.”

With the new funding, Malanta plans to expand its engineering and go-to-market operations, scaling its predictive intelligence platform globally.

In a landscape where cyberattacks are becoming increasingly AI-assisted, Malanta’s proactive model represents a critical shift: from breach response to attack preemption—a step toward staying one move ahead in the evolving cyber battlefield.