Malanta secures $10M seed to predict and prevent cyberattacks

Malanta, a Tel Aviv cybersecurity startup, has emerged from stealth with a $10 million seed round to commercialise a platform that spots attacker activity weeks or months before those assets are weaponised. The round was led by Cardumen Capital and included participation from The Group Ventures (TGV), with earlier angels including Udi Mokady, Benny Schneider, and Harel Prag and Amit Greener of Rollout Ventures.

The company’s product focuses on what it calls indicators of pre-attack (IoPA): the domain registrations, SSL certificates, email accounts, code repositories and other digital setup activity that adversaries create while preparing campaigns. By collecting those “digital breadcrumbs” across open and hidden sources and applying machine learning, Malanta says it can predict which resources are likely to become active attack infrastructure and advise customers to act before the first exploit.

Kobi Ben Naim, co-founder and CEO, told Inforcapital the startup models attacker behaviour — including AI-assisted agents it terms AI.Attackers — and matches that view to a customer’s asset map. For new clients the platform immediately inventories internet-exposed assets and correlates those with adversary signals to produce high-confidence, actionable warnings. The firm says its customers receive warnings often weeks before competing products detect indicators as IOCs.

Use of proceeds from the seed round will prioritise R&D and go-to-market expansion. The company plans to scale engineering to improve detection fidelity and to accelerate integrations with registrars, threat-blocking services and enterprise security stacks. According to the founders, the platform already supports takedown coordination with registrars and Safe Browsing services to neutralise malicious domains and block user access.

Malanta’s approach intentionally mirrors attackers’ automation. The founders emphasise a largely autonomous pipeline — “no humans in the loop” for core discovery and disruption processes — enabling machine‑speed response at internet scale. That design is pitched as a hedge against the accelerating use of AI by threat actors in pre-attack reconnaissance and resource development.

For buyers and CISOs, the pitch is timely. The global cybersecurity market has grown into a multi‑hundred billion dollar sector with double‑digit interest in proactive, attack-surface and pre-emptive defence tools. Vendors that can reliably surface high-confidence pre-attack indicators and reduce false positives may shorten the time from warning to remediation and change how incident prevention budgets are allocated.

Malanta was founded in July 2024 by Kobi Ben Naim (CEO), Guy Ben Arie (head of engineering), Yossi Dantes (CPO) and Tal Kandel (CBO) — all alumni of CyberArk. With the new capital and a product aimed at pre-emptive disruption, the startup is positioning itself to compete in the growing market for attack-surface management and adversary‑centered threat intelligence, particularly among enterprise customers in Europe and North America seeking earlier, higher‑confidence threat signals.