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Above was founded in 2025 by Aviv Nahum, a veteran of Unit 81, and Amir Boldo, a veteran of Unit 49, both elite branches of Israel’s Unit 8200, and both seasoned entrepreneurs with prior exits. The company has developed a platform designed to identify and respond to insider threats within organizations.<\/p>\n
In an interview, Nahum said the company launched in July last year and quickly gained traction. \u201cWe operate in the world of internal risk,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve already delivered significant value to large customers and wanted to scale quickly following strong demand and large contracts.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that early interest from U.S. investors played a key role in the rapid fundraising process. \u201cThere was interest from American funds from the very beginning, and Ballistic made a compelling offer. It\u2019s a leading cybersecurity fund, which is a major advantage for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Above\u2019s platform relies heavily on AI-driven automation. \u201cWe effectively deploy thousands of AI agents that continuously look for leaks and internal vulnerabilities,\u201d Nahum said. \u201cThey conduct full investigations, collecting signals, connecting the dots, and building a complete picture.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Nahum, the system has already identified a range of internal risks, including suspected espionage activity and employees working multiple jobs simultaneously. \u201cWe aggregate large amounts of data and turn it into actionable intelligence,\u201d he said. \u201cOur approach is that there are no fixed rules, we build the full investigative process dynamically.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite its rapid growth, the company does not plan to scale headcount aggressively. \u201cWe don\u2019t see the need for rapid hiring,\u201d Nahum said. \u201cEverything runs through the cloud, and most of the work is automated. We will grow, but primarily in sales and AI-related roles.\u201d<\/p>\n
Above is Nahum\u2019s second startup; his previous company, Ctrl, was acquired by AI firm Sana. Boldo is also an experienced entrepreneur, having co-founded Trullion and previously serving as SVP of R&D at Silverfort.<\/p>\n
The company currently employs around 10 people, most of them in Tel Aviv, with additional operations in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Insider threats have become one of the most costly and complex challenges facing organizations. Traditional approaches have struggled to keep up, largely because they rely on predefined rules and assumptions about risk.<\/p>\n
At the same time, only a limited number of organizations can afford to operate large, multidisciplinary investigation teams, and even then, responses are often reactive, occurring after damage has already been done.<\/p>\n
Above\u2019s platform aims to change that by making internal risk management proactive. Its system uses dozens of AI agents that operate continuously across an organization\u2019s systems, analyzing both human and machine behavior to detect threats in real time.<\/p>\n
Unlike traditional tools, the platform does not rely on predefined rules. Instead, it combines real-time intervention, aimed at stopping risky behavior, with automated generation of evidence timelines that can be used by security, legal, and HR teams.<\/p>\n
The rise of AI agents is further complicating the threat landscape. As organizations increasingly deploy autonomous systems to search for data, transfer files, and perform tasks, the definition of an \u201cinsider\u201d is expanding beyond human employees.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a future where AI will operate most complex systems, humans will not disappear\u2014they will level up. Those who supervise and manage automation will hold real power within organizations. But with that power also comes risk: human error or an insider threat can have a much faster and far deeper impact,\u201d said Shay Michel, Managing Partner at Merlin Ventures. \u201cAbove is building a protection layer that empowers people, reduces mistakes, and prevents insider threats before they become incidents. In an AI-accelerated world, true resilience begins with people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity startup Above Security has raised $43 million in a Series A round led by Merlin Ventures, Ballistic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-361177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}