The Venture Codex

Led · Equity · Jan 2025

BlinkOps offers a Security Micro-Agent Builder that enables teams to generate unlimited, task-specific security micro-agents for workflows such as identity access, alert investigation, vulnerability patching, and device management. The platform emphasizes no-code authoring and agent-to-agent communication to handle complex workflows with reliability and trust. Since launching its builder earlier this year, BlinkOps has amassed 30,000+ integrations, 10,000+ workflow templates and 500+ security agent templates, and has attracted dozens of Fortune 500 customers. The company reports rapid enterprise adoption, with deployments moving from pilot to production in weeks, and expects thousands of micro-agents to be deployed in the next couple of months. Financially, BlinkOps has raised $50 million in a Series B and has $90 million in total funding to date. The founders, Gil Barak and Zion Zatlavi, previously co-founded Secdo, which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks. Blink Ops offers an AI-driven security automation platform that integrates agentic AI capabilities with a deterministic workflow engine to deliver reliable, scalable automation for security operations. The company emphasizes rapid Time to Automation (TTA), claiming speeds up to a hundred-fold faster than competitors, and supports 30,000+ out-of-the-box integrations. Blink Ops reported 400% year-over-year revenue growth and has more than doubled its headcount in the past six months, with focused engineering hiring in Israel. The company has surpassed $50 million in total funding after securing an additional $24M in 2024, building on an initial $26M announced in 2022. Blink Ops plans to use the funding to accelerate product innovation, deepen AI-driven intelligence, expand integrations, and fuel global hiring. It has also made strategic executive hires and expanded partnerships and reseller relationships to drive adoption among enterprise and Fortune 500 customers. Blink offers a no-code workflow platform that lets teams build playbooks to automate cloud activities such as incident response, security remediation, and provisioning (for example, deploying an S3 bucket). The founders came from security and automation backgrounds and discovered significant overlap between DevOps and SecOps during customer research. Customers reported spending roughly 30–50% of their time on security-related tasks, motivating Blink’s unified CloudOps approach. The company launched last year and spent much of its first year iterating with design partners and shifting the product to a no-code model. The product is not yet generally available; Blink expects GA sometime in the second half of the year. The company has about 30 employees across the Bay Area, Israel and other locations, and plans to double headcount by the end of the year.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2023

ansā Roasting makes a fully autonomous countertop coffee micro‑roaster that energizes beans from core to shell without emitting noise, heat, or unwanted by-products. The patent-pending appliance uses sensors and computer-vision AI algorithms to ensure even, repeatable roasts and fits on any commercial countertop such as hotel lobbies, restaurants, cafés, or shared workspaces. It can roast a single serving in a few minutes or be programmed to roast desired amounts by time using the ansā Roasting app. The company intends to fast-track a full commercial roll-out of its hi-tech micro-roaster across North America. ansā was founded in 2020 by Yuval Weisglass, Matan Scharf, and Jonathan Scharf. It secured USD 9M in new funding to support commercialization.