Cylake

Cylake

Sunnyvale, California, USA
AI
Seed · $45M

About Cylake

Cylake is an AI-native cybersecurity company built for the world's largest and most regulated institutions that require full data sovereignty. Its platform delivers complete, AI-native, data-driven threat detection and response exclusively through on-premises and private cloud deployments, combining hardware and software components on a unified data foundation — with no dependency on public cloud infrastructure. The company was founded in 2026 and targets organizations such as government agencies and enterprises that cannot send sensitive security data outside their own perimeter.

Company details

LocationSunnyvale, California, USA
IndustryAI

Funding

Total raised

$45M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Greylock

Founders

NZ

Nir Zuk

Founded Palo Alto Networks in 2005 and served as its CTO for more than two decades before co-founding Cylake.

WX

Wilson Xu

Spent over a decade at Palo Alto Networks leading its engineering team before co-founding Cylake.

ES

Ehud (Udi) Shamir

Co-founded SentinelOne in 2013 and previously worked as a Distinguished Engineer at Palo Alto Networks.

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.