Jazz Raises $61M in Seed and Series A Funding to Modernize Data Loss Prevention
Jazz just walked out of stealth with $61M in Seed and Series A funding, and the name is doing more than branding. It’s a signal. In cybersecurity, where most vendors blast the same tired notes about alerts and dashboards, Jazz is trying to change the rhythm of Data Loss Prevention entirely. The round was led by Glilot Capital Partners and Team8, with Ten Eleven Ventures, Merlin Ventures, Encoded Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and a group of seasoned cyber entrepreneurs joining the session. When that mix of capital shows up early, it usually means the room heard something interesting before the rest of the market tuned in.
Credit the architects of the sound. Congratulations to Ido Livneh, Co-founder and CEO, and Yonatan Zohar, Co-founder and CTO, along with co founders Jake Turetsky, Chief AI Officer, and Noam Issachar, Chief Business Officer. Veterans of Unit 81 with time spent at Axonius and Laminar, this group knows the difference between noise and signal. They have lived inside the chaos that security teams deal with every day. Thousands of alerts screaming for attention while the real problem quietly slips out the side door.
Jazz looked at Data Loss Prevention and asked a question most vendors avoid. What if the problem is not visibility, but understanding? Legacy DLP systems fire alerts like a broken smoke detector. Loud, constant, and eventually ignored. Jazz built a forensic endpoint agent for full visibility, then paired it with an AI driven Agentic Investigator that studies context, intent, and behavior before raising its hand. The result is a short list of incidents that actually deserve a human brain.
One early deployment tells the story better than a marketing deck. At a company with roughly 5,000 employees, Jazz cut daily DLP alerts from tens of thousands down to about 10 real incidents worth investigating. 10. That is the difference between drowning in dashboards and actually protecting data. Source code, financial docs, customer records, product roadmaps. The crown jewels that modern companies move across SaaS tools, endpoints, and AI systems all day long.
Customers like Lemonade, AlphaSense, and CAVA are already putting the platform to work across dozens of environments. Around 45 employees are building the engine, mostly from a development center in Israel with the rest in the US. The company emerged from stealth in NYC, but the rhythm is global. When investors lean in this early, it usually means they hear something others have not picked up yet.
The real lesson hiding in the melody is simple. Security teams do not need louder alarms. They need systems that understand how modern work actually flows. SaaS, cloud apps, AI copilots, data moving at human speed. Jazz is betting that the future of DLP sounds less like a siren and more like a smart investigator who already read the whole case file before walking into the room. And if the first set is any indication, the crowd might just be warming up.
