Guardz, a cybersecurity company helping Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and IT professionals protect small and medium-sized businesses, announced that it has raised $56 million in Series B funding led by ClearSky, with participation from new investor Phoenix Financial and existing investors Glilot Capital Partners, SentinelOne, Hanaco Ventures, iAngels, GKFF Ventures, Lumir, and others. This latest funding round reflects Guardz’s notable growth, bringing the total funding to $84 million in just over two years.
Problem being addressed: As cyberattacks grow in sophistication and target small and mid-sized businesses, the backbone of the economy, the MSPs and IT professionals serving them find themselves at the forefront of the battle. However, MSPs face mounting cybersecurity challenges, with most struggling to manage multiple, fragmented solutions amid a constantly evolving threat landscape, which leads to tedious manual processes, slower response times, and higher operating costs. The future of SMB cybersecurity depends on unifying tools into a cohesive and AI-native cyber defense ecosystem. Guardz is at the forefront of this effort, enabling MSPs to protect their clients more effectively across all attack vectors and scale their businesses sustainably.
What Guardz does: Since launching from stealth in early 2023, Guardz has onboarded hundreds of MSP partners and is securing thousands of businesses across the globe. The Guardz unified cybersecurity platform, such as AI and human-led MDR, is purpose-built for MSPs to deliver comprehensive cybersecurity at scale.
By streamlining active protection across identities, email, endpoints, cloud, and data into a single engine, Guardz helps MSPs to detect threats faster, respond more accurately, and reduce manual effort. Its 24/7 Managed Detection and Response (MDR) combines AI-automated detection and response with expert-led threat hunting, while integrated SentinelOne EDR ensures solid security without added complexity.
The seamless Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace integrations continuously monitor user behavior and activity, flagging suspicious patterns to prevent account takeover and suspending accounts before any damage occurs. Combining these controls with user awareness and email protection enhances MSPs’ ability to strengthen client security, unlock new revenue opportunities, and scale their businesses more efficiently.
How the funding will be used: With this additional funding, Guardz will scale go-to-market efforts and enhance its unified cybersecurity platform to deliver greater automation, risk prevention, and cyber compliance and insurance capabilities, helping small and medium-sized businesses build resilience against the growing number of increasingly hostile cyber threats.
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“This funding propels Guardz forward in our mission to bring enterprise-level cybersecurity to SMBs, and to continue to empower MSPs with unified security controls and automated detection and response. MSPs are the first line of defense for these organizations – the engine of the global economy – and we are excited to continue providing them with our best-in-class platform, to ensure that businesses are not only secured and insured, but can thrive.”
Dor Eisner, CEO and co-founder of Guardz
“Guardz has built an exceptional solution that directly addresses a critical and underserved need in the market at a very exciting time for technology. Their AI-native approach, seamless integrations, and relentless focus on the MSP ecosystem has led to rapid growth and uniquely positions them to continue to lead this space. We are proud to support Guardz as they scale their impact and set a new standard for cybersecurity in this critical segment of the economy.”
Alex Weiss, Managing Partner at ClearSky
