Huskeys, an Edge Security Management (ESM) company, has emerged from stealth with $8 million in seed funding to address longstanding challenges in web application security. The company is focused on modernizing legacy web application firewalls (WAFs), which it argues have failed to keep pace with increasingly dynamic, AI-driven environments.
Founded in 2025, Huskeys has developed a platform that sits on top of existing infrastructure rather than replacing it. Its patent-pending technology introduces an agentic AI layer across the edge security stack, enabling organizations to unify traffic flows across CDN, WAF, infrastructure, and applications into a single control plane.
The company’s platform is designed to simplify deployment with a plug-and-play approach that works across multi-cloud and multi-WAF environments. Its AI engine analyzes traffic behavior, business logic, and risk, while continuously adapting and orchestrating security rules and policies. This allows organizations to balance security protection with business performance, an issue that has historically forced trade-offs between blocking malicious activity and preserving legitimate user access.
Huskeys positions its technology as a shift from static, fragmented security tools to a dynamic, context-aware system aligned with modern application development speeds. The platform aims to help enterprises move away from manual rule management and toward automated optimization driven by real-time intelligence.
The company reports early traction with global brands including TikTok, Merlin Entertainments, and Hugging Face. In one example, Huskeys identified overly aggressive WAF rules that were blocking legitimate e-commerce transactions. By recommending targeted adjustments, the company says it helped restore millions in revenue within hours.
Huskeys was founded by CEO Itai Gafni and CTO Roy Weisfeld, both alumni of Unit 8200. Gafni previously led AI innovation efforts within the unit, while Weisfeld specialized in web security research and offensive testing in complex environments.
The seed funding round includes participation from venture firms such as 10D, SV Angel, toDay Ventures, CCL, and Alumni Ventures, along with more than 30 CISOs and several cybersecurity-focused angel investors. The round also features participation from athlete investors including Mario Götze, Kelvin Beachum, and Larry Fitzgerald, as well as The Players Fund.
Huskeys aims to position its platform not just as a security solution, but as a business optimization tool for organizations that rely heavily on web traffic as a revenue driver.
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“Web traffic has shifted from humans to APIs and now to automated agents, making it harder than ever to distinguish between legitimate and malicious activity. Security teams have essentially given up on making their WAF effective because the trade-off is too high. In almost every call, we hear the same thing: ‘I don’t want to touch it.’ You either block legitimate customers and lose revenue or leave the doors open to modern attacks. It’s a doomsday choice no one should have to make. Huskeys was built to integrate within minutes and deliver value within hours, not weeks. Now teams can stop guessing and turn their WAF from a business blocker into a revenue generator.”
Itai Gafni, CEO and Co-Founder, Huskeys
“We met while working on a mutual project that used AI to enhance web hacking to bypass the most common WAF vendors, and it was shocking how easily we were able to bypass every existing solution. Their effectiveness was essentially zero.”
Roy Weisfeld, CTO and Co-Founder, Huskeys
