AI agents are adding another layer of complexity to internet traffic, and Huskeys wants to help companies tell the good bots from the bad ones.
Huskeys has raised $27 million in a Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, valuing the year-old company at more than $100 million, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The financing brings Huskeys’ total funding to $35 million, following an $8 million seed round. The round also included Zscaler Ventures and Okta Ventures, alongside Merlin Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Bright Pixel Capital and other investors.
Founded in 2025 by CEO Itai Gafni and CTO Roy Weisfeld, both veterans of Israel’s elite Unit 8200, Huskeys is expanding from a platform that integrates with Web Application Firewalls into what it calls Network Edge Security Management, or NESM.
The idea is to add an intelligence layer across security and networking products that companies already use rather than forcing them to replace those systems.
The network edge is becoming harder to police as companies spread applications across cloud providers, content delivery networks, WAFs and other services. AI is making the problem more complicated. Autonomous agents are becoming legitimate users of online services, while attackers are using AI to discover and exploit vulnerabilities faster.
Huskeys says its platform connects technologies including CDNs, WAFs, cloud security tools, load balancers, virtual private clouds and security groups. Its Unified Data Model is designed to give security teams a common view across those different systems. For MSPs and security partners managing increasingly complex customer environments, that approach could reduce some of the fragmentation created by deploying security products from multiple vendors.
The platform also includes dynamic policy generation, continuous security assessments and Virtual Patching, which Huskeys says can temporarily mitigate vulnerabilities at the network edge while developers work on a permanent code fix. Huskeys says it already analyzes more than a trillion web requests and thousands of network configurations daily, with customers including TikTok, LEGOLAND, Ro, Blackstone and Hugging Face.
Where Huskeys Could Gain an Edge
The company’s pitch addresses a difficult problem for businesses: security controls cannot simply become more aggressive if doing so means blocking legitimate customers.
Blackstone’s Adam Fletcher told the Journal that companies need multiple layers of security because a single defense is no longer enough. An overly restrictive firewall can hurt revenue, while allowing dangerous traffic through can expose sensitive information.
That tension could become more important as AI agents account for a larger share of internet activity. Bright Pixel, an investor in Huskeys, said non-human traffic could account for 70% of web traffic by 2027, although its announcement does not identify the source of that projection. The challenge for Huskeys is therefore bigger than stopping attacks. Its technology has to distinguish between different types of automated traffic accurately enough that companies can tighten security without disrupting useful activity.
Scaling beyond the pitch
Huskeys told the Journal that revenue roughly quadrupled quarter over quarter after it began doing business in early 2026, while its customer base roughly quintupled. The company has nearly 40 employees after roughly doubling its workforce in two months and expects to reach about 50 by year-end, according to the Journal.
The funding will support a larger U.S. sales and marketing operation. The bigger test, however, will be whether NESM becomes a category companies actually need or simply another management layer on top of an already crowded security stack. For MSPs and security partners, Huskeys’ bet is worth watching because customers running security infrastructure across multiple vendors could increasingly need a common layer for managing policies, visibility and automated traffic.