Participated · Seed · Oct 2022

Ask-AI provides a generative AI answers and insights solution that connects to more than 50 enterprise work systems, ingesting, analyzing and understanding enterprise knowledge. It integrates that knowledge into employees' workflows to boost productivity and support use cases across customer support, success, product, R&D and sales. The platform connects to systems such as Salesforce, Zendesk, Confluence, Jira, Slack, Google Drive and Teams. Customers include Monday.com, Callrail, Yotpo, HiBob, Own and Instawork. The company is led by founder and CEO Alon Talmor and currently has a 40-person team across Tel Aviv and Toronto, with plans to double headcount over the next 12 months. Ask-AI intends to use the new funding to expand operations and accelerate product development. Ask-AI combines artificial intelligence and natural language processing to analyze long texts, summarize them into single-sentence answers, and surface recurring questions and insights across an organization. The platform ingests internal and customer communication sources — including Slack, emails, chats, databases and monitored call-center recordings — to provide business, process and product answers. When it cannot find answers, the system uses those questions to learn and help drive knowledge creation, effectively becoming a central organizational knowledge base. Ask-AI operates on a SaaS model and counts Ownbackup, Yotpo, Armis, Coralogix, Claroty and WalkMe among its customers and design partners. Led by CEO Alon Talmor, the team also includes Prof. Jonathan Berant, Dafna Lavran and Eyal Medar. The company plans to use the new funding to accelerate growth and expand operations and business reach.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2022

LayerX provides an agentless security platform deployed as an enterprise browser extension that integrates with Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox and other browsers to give organizations visibility and enforcement across web, SaaS and GenAI tools. The platform focuses on GenAI security, malicious extension protection, web/SaaS DLP and insider-threat protection, Shadow SaaS management, safe browsing and identity protection. It complements SSE infrastructure from vendors such as Palo Alto Networks Prisma, Zscaler and Netskope by securing the browser layer. Led by CEO Or Eshed, LayerX intends to use the new funding to accelerate its next phase of growth and expand its AI-powered browser security capabilities. The article describes the company continuing to provide comprehensive protection against data leakage over web/SaaS, web-borne threats and other modern web risks. LayerX offers the LayerX Browser Security platform and an Enterprise Browser Extension that secures and governs browser-based work across managed and unmanaged devices. The extension is compatible with Chrome, Firefox, Edge and other common browsers and requires no agents, VPNs, or network changes. The platform includes an AI engine that granularly monitors code run by the browser and generates insights while enabling real-time blocking or restrictions without impacting user experience. LayerX protects against data leakage, identity and password theft, malicious browser extensions, phishing, account takeovers, shadow SaaS and risks introduced by GenAI tools. The company says it has Fortune 100 clients and was founded in 2022 by Or Eshed (CEO) and David Vaisbrud (CTO) in Tel Aviv, Israel. The new capital will be used for corporate growth across talent and to increase global market presence. The company positions the browser as a central productivity app and a focal point for modern security defenses. LayerX emerged from stealth to unveil a browser security platform that operates with all commercially available browsers, allowing employees to keep existing browsing preferences while adding security controls. Its Plexus engine performs high-resolution monitoring and risk analysis of browser sessions using a dual AI engine that runs on both the client side and the backend. The company emphasizes a “user-first” approach, aiming to secure browsing without degrading user experience, performance, or privacy. LayerX positions its solution as an alternative to standalone secure browsers and sandboxing environments that can impact usability. The team includes veterans of IDF cyber units and cybersecurity industry leaders. The company disclosed a $7.5 million Seed round in conjunction with its public launch.