Cyera has acquired Ryft, a two-year-old Israeli startup that built automated data lake infrastructure for AI agent workloads. The deal is estimated at $100 million to $130 million, according to Calcalist. Ryft had raised only $8 million in a seed round led by Index Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners, making the return significant for its backers.
Ryft was founded in 2024 by Yossi Reitblat (CEO), Yuval Yogev (CTO), and Guy Gadon (VP R&D). The 15-person team built a platform that automatically analyzes all data access across an organization, by both humans and AI agents, and automates authorization, classification, and data optimization. Customers included Sonos, Unity, and Voodoo. Following the acquisition, Reitblat will lead Cyera’s AI security division, according to Calcalist.
Why Agent Data Governance Is the Gap
The acquisition targets a specific architectural problem: traditional data security was built for human users with defined identities and predictable access patterns. AI agents break that model. They shift identity based on task context, delegate to other agents, and traverse data stores at speeds no human user matches. As ECI Research noted in its analysis, two-thirds of enterprise AI leaders surveyed at the 2025 AI Builder Summit reported they have already deployed multi-agent collaboration in live or pilot workflows.
That deployment reality has outpaced governance tooling. Only 44% of enterprise AI leaders reported even moderate confidence that AI agents can act autonomously without human intervention, per the same ECI Research survey. The confidence gap reflects a real deficit in traceability: most organizations cannot tell you exactly what data an agent accessed, under which identity, or what happened afterward.
Cyera’s Expansion Strategy
The Ryft deal is Cyera’s fourth acquisition in five years. The company previously acquired Trail Security in 2024 for $162 million, which introduced AI-powered data loss prevention capabilities, according to CRN. Cyera’s $400 million Series F in January brought its valuation to $9 billion and total funding past $1.7 billion.
The company described the combined platform as offering “instantly traceable, secure data access for agentic AI at scale,” per BusinessWire. Ryft’s data lake handles agent-specific data patterns while Cyera’s existing DSPM capabilities provide posture management and classification. Together, the integrated product traces what agent accessed which data, under which identity, and what occurred after access.
Yonatan Itai, Cyera co-founder and VP R&D, told Calcalist: “Ryft brings deep technological expertise in a highly relevant area, solving one of the most critical challenges in enabling secure AI adoption. This is a domain we aimed to accelerate over the coming year, and speed to market was essential.”
The Procurement Signal
Cyera tripling its valuation in 12 months while making serial acquisitions in agent-adjacent security reflects how the market is pricing agentic AI governance as a durable, large category. Enterprise security teams that have been deferring the question of who secures agent data access are running out of runway. With two-thirds of enterprises already running multi-agent workflows and regulatory pressure building around AI-driven data access, the procurement decisions happening now will shape which platforms become default infrastructure for the next generation of enterprise security stacks.