Lightspin is a Tel Aviv–based cloud security company founded in 2020 that offers an agentless platform to protect cloud and container environments, including Kubernetes, during build and runtime. Its graph-based security tools analyze relationships between assets to detect misconfigurations, over-permissive policies, common vulnerabilities and exposures, and risky attack paths, and can automatically fix some issues. The platform enriches graphs with external threat intelligence and uses predictive path analysis to prioritize critical items and provide visualizations of cloud assets and attacker‑view relationships. Lightspin integrates with DevOps and workflow tools such as Jira, Slack, ServiceNow, Jenkins, Terraform, CircleCI, GitLab, and Bitbucket to enable remediation. The company cites customers including Imperva, Gett, and Rapyd and identifies competitors such as Palo Alto Networks, Checkpoint, Wiz, and Orca Security. Management says it will use new funding to expand market reach and product offering and plans to triple its roughly 20-person workforce across the U.S. and Israel and move into new offices. Lightspin provides contextual cloud security for native cloud environments, Kubernetes, and microservices. The company launched out of stealth after closing a $4M seed funding round. Its platform uses graph-based tools and algorithms to rapidly visualize the cloud stack, analyze potential attack paths, and detect root causes of critical vulnerabilities. By mapping cloud assets in minutes and using a prospective attacker’s approach, Lightspin proactively identifies configuration vulnerabilities and critical threats. The solution is already in use at multiple Fortune 500 companies and has 20 pilots running at global organizations. Lightspin intends to use the funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach.

Total raised

$20M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Jun 2021