Vega just pulled down $120M in Series B funding, and the cybersecurity world felt it in the floorboards. Not because big rounds are rare, but because this one says something about where security is actually headed. Founded in 2024 by Shay Sandler and Eli Rozen, Vega looked at the SIEM-heavy status quo and asked a dangerous question: why are we still dragging oceans of data into centralized systems just to figure out what already happened? On February 10, 2026, that question turned into $120M led by Accel, with Cyberstarts, Redpoint, and CRV leaning in again. Total raised now sits at $185M in under 2 years. That is not momentum by accident. That is design.
Congratulations to Shay Sandler, Co-founder and CEO, and Eli Rozen, Co-founder. Building in cybersecurity is like walking into a room where everyone claims to be the adult in the room. Boards are cautious. Buyers are skeptical. Budgets are scrutinized line by line. Yet Vega did not show up with another dashboard or another promise to “simplify everything.” They built a Security Analytics Mesh. SAM. A mesh that does not force the data to relocate like a witness under protection. It goes to the data. Cloud platforms, data lakes, SaaS apps, legacy log repositories, even cold storage. Vega runs analytics where the data already lives, which quietly changes the math on cost, latency, and operational drag.
That architectural choice is not cosmetic. It is economic. Centralized ingestion models come with infrastructure gravity and billing that never sleeps. Vega’s data-in-place approach reduces the need for massive log pipelines while still covering the full SecOps lifecycle: search, detect, triage, investigate, respond. Media coverage points to multimillion dollar contracts with global banks, major healthcare providers, and Fortune 200 companies. These are organizations that do not experiment casually. They buy what aligns with risk, compliance, and scale. When they sign, it signals confidence in both the thesis and the execution.
Accel leading both the $65M Series A and the $120M Series B is not just participation. It is conviction compounding. Cyberstarts, Redpoint, and CRV returning reinforces that this is long game capital backing a structural shift. Independent reporting pegs valuation around $700M, unconfirmed but telling in context. Headquartered in New York City with roots in Israel’s cyber ecosystem and now over 100 employees, Vega is scaling fast, just 5 months after its previous round.
The lesson for founders is not “raise big.” It is solve something foundational. Vega did not chase surface-level optimization. They attacked the plumbing of security operations. When you change where analysis happens, you change who controls time, cost, and clarity inside the SOC. And in cybersecurity, time is the one currency nobody can print.
