Building a Venture Scale Cyber Security Startup in the Age of AI: Alon Jackson, CEO of Astrix Security (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: All right. So then, last question. At this point, you have raised $40 million for this company, or has there been more money into the company?

Building a Venture Scale Cyber Security Startup in the Age of AI: Alon Jackson, CEO of Astrix Security (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: For both of these functions—the product definition side and the iterative product definition side, as well as the actual scenario mapping on the engineering side, are you using off-the-shelf tools, or using stuff that have you built yourselves? What does the infrastructure look like?

Building a Venture Scale Cyber Security Startup in the Age of AI: Alon Jackson, CEO of Astrix Security (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So, two questions on AI. First one is, as you said, there is a tailwind, clearly, because agentic AI this year in 2025 has started to take off, and we are doing this interview in June 2025. We have started hearing about agents quite aggressively all through this year. So, the vulnerabilities caused

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Building a Venture Scale Cyber Security Startup in the Age of AI: Alon Jackson, CEO of Astrix Security (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Now, you talked about the commercial terms. What kinds of terms would you advise people, based on your experience and your learning? What terms do you advise for channel partnerships? What are the secrets of a successful channel partnership?

Building a Venture Scale Cyber Security Startup in the Age of AI: Alon Jackson, CEO of Astrix Security (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What were the milestones of that first round of $15 million financing that you raised? What did you accomplish with that and in what timeframe?

Building a Venture Scale Cyber Security Startup in the Age of AI: Alon Jackson, CEO of Astrix Security (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So, when once you got the $15 million, how long did it take you to get the fresh product out? Alon Jackson: Well, a product is a big word. An MVP or providing initial value—that’s actually an interesting story. It took us two weeks. Sramana Mitra: Two weeks! Tell me more. What did

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Building a Venture Scale Cyber Security Startup in the Age of AI: Alon Jackson, CEO of Astrix Security (Part 1)

Alon comes from the rich ecosystem of Cyber Security entrepreneurs in Israel. He has built an excellent, high growth AI Cyber Security company. You will find an in-depth discussion on his strategy that has included raising $85M in funding.