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 by agentic AI are already becoming a bigger opportunity than what you had originally set out to work on. Now, my question is very specific. In your enterprise customers, is agentic AI an issue yet?

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 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.

1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: Domain Knowledge

At 1Mby1M, we believe in learning from case studies of successful entrepreneurs. These case studies involve discussions on opportunities and challenges specific to the domain such as Generative AI, E-Commerce, Digital Health, Cyber Security, and FinTech. 

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: IRONSCALES CEO Eyal Benishti (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: We’ve talked about the who. What happens in the what? I’m doing this manually. I don’t have a big system like yours protecting me. I do have enough experience to know that this doesn’t make sense. I check the email address. Then I check the offer, eyeball, and pass. What are the heuristics of the what?

Eyal Benishti: Just to be clear, with AI, ML, and the new way of doing things, humans will always be part of the solution. With a solution like IRONSCALES, AI can do 99% of the job. It can do very impressive things when it comes to prediction and predicting things that it has never seen before.