Cyera acquires Ryft to deliver traceable data access for AI agents at enterprise scale

Cyera acquires Ryft to give enterprises traceable data access for AI agents - SiliconANGLE

Cyera acquires Ryft to give enterprises traceable data access for AI agents Artificial intelligence and data security company Cyera Ltd. announced today that it has acquired Ryft Data Inc., an Israeli startup that has built an automated data lake platform designed for enterprises deploying AI agents. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Globes reports that market sources estimate the acquisition is valued at between $100 million and $130 million. Founded in 2024, Ryft offers a platform that enables fast, secure access to enterprise data while automatically analyzing how that data is accessed by both employees and AI agents. The platform automates authorization, classification and optimization of information and is built on an open-source standard, allowing customers to retain control of their data without vendor lock-in. Ryft's managed layer handles optimization, compliance, disaster recovery and governance automatically by removing the manual engineering overhead typically required to keep a data lake performant and audit-ready. The combination is pitched as an AI-ready data lake capable of supporting agent workloads that need clean, well-managed and traceable data access at scale, rather than the loosely governed data swamps that have become common in enterprise environments. The company's platform is designed to sit alongside existing query engines and analytics tools without forcing customers to migrate data or commit to a proprietary stack. The architecture also gives security and compliance teams a consistent view of what data AI agents are reaching, what permissions they used and what actions followed, a capability that faces challenges as agentic systems multiply across enterprise environments. The acquisition adds agent-ready data lake capabilities to Cyera's data security platform as enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI systems that access, analyze and act on sensitive corporate data. Cyera said the deal will accelerate its roadmap for delivering instantly traceable, secure data access for agentic AI at scale. Ryft Chief Executive Officer Yossi Reitblat will lead AI security activities at Cyera following the close of the deal, with the Ryft team forming a new group focused on the intersection of AI, data and information security. "The Ryft team brings deep expertise at the intersection of data and AI and will play a key role as we build a unified data and AI control plane to help enterprises adopt agentic AI safely and at speed," said Tamar Bar-Ilan, co-founder and chief technology officer at Cyera. Coming into its acquisition, Ryft had raised $8 million in funding from investors including Index Ventures SA and Bessemer Venture Partners. The deal is Cyera's fourth acquisition in five years and comes after the company raised $400 million in new funding in January on a valuation of $9 billion.

Cyera Boosts Data Security For AI Agents With Acquisition Of Ryft

The startup will bring its data lake, which was designed for AI agents, to the Cyera platform, the vendor said. Cyera announced Thursday that it has acquired an AI-focused data lake startup, Ryft, in the latest major expansion of the vendor's data and AI security platform. Terms of the acquisition for Ryft, which was founded in 2024, were not disclosed. [Related: 20 Coolest AI And Security Products At RSAC 2026] The startup will bring its data lake, which was designed for AI agents, to the Cyera platform, the vendor said. The move accelerates the roadmap at Cyera for being able to offer "instantly traceable, secure data access for agentic AI at scale," the company said in a news release. The acquisition follows a $400 million Series F funding round announced by Cyera in January. The round, which came with a $9 billion valuation for the company, brought Cyera to a total of more than $1.7 billion in funding raised since its debut in 2021. Previously, Cyera had acquired Trail Security in 2024 for $162 million, which the company said has introduced an AI-powered approach for DLP (data loss prevention) to its data security platform. The platform's core functionality has been focused around DSPM (data security posture management), which has been extended to enable secure usage of data with AI tools. In March, Cyera announced the launch of a set of new capabilities for protecting AI adoption, including its new Browser Shield tool. The offering delivers real-time visibility and discovery for AI used within browsers -- whether those tools are managed or unmanaged, Cyera said. In an interview in November 2025, Cyera CRO Steve Rog told CRN that the partner opportunities going forward are expansive amid massive growth for Cyera's data and AI security platform.