The company said it has developed a new approach to cloud security based on artificial intelligence agents that continuously monitor cloud environments, assess security risks, and remediate threats in real-time.
Copperhelm was founded by Shimon Tolts, Eyar Zilberman, and Roman Labunsky, whose backgrounds include positions at Unity, McAfee, and RSA. The team also includes industry figures who have been recognized as AWS Heroes (a designation by Amazon Web Services), CNCF Ambassadors (representatives of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation), and GitHub Stars (an honor given to notable contributors to software platforms).
The startup aims to address what the company describes as a gap in enterprise cloud security, where teams have been slower to adopt AI tools compared to engineering departments.
“Our engineering teams implemented AI years ago, but security remained manual,” CEO Toltz said in a statement. “Copperhelm brings AI to cloud security, enabling teams to investigate, verify, and remediate threats faster.”
Cloud environments are often complex and fragmented, making it difficult for general-purpose AI systems to operate effectively, the company said. Copperhelm’s platform is specifically designed for cloud infrastructure and can work across hundreds of accounts.
At the core of the company’s system is what it calls a “context lake,” a real-time data layer that aggregates and structures cloud information to provide AI agents with the context they need to analyze risk and take action.
The platform includes specialized agents for network analysis, system behavior monitoring, attacker simulation, and automated remediation. According to the company, these agents connect directly to live workloads, inspect processes, and deploy protections such as web application firewall rules without causing downtime.
“Applying AI to cloud security requires deep architectural expertise, not just a generic model with integrations,” said Rona Segev, co-founder and managing partner of TLV Partners.
Copperhelm said the funding will be used to expand product development, grow the engineering team and accelerate go-to-market efforts. Shay Michel, managing partner of Merlin Ventures, will join the company’s board of directors.
Tel Aviv-based Copperhelm says it serves large enterprises looking to automate cloud security operations while maintaining human oversight.
