Cynomi

Cynomi solves a structural problem in cybersecurity: the scarcity of experienced CISO-level talent limits the ability of managed service providers and consultancies to scale advisory and governance services to lower-tier market segments. The platform acts as an expert-guided automation layer, embedding cyber governance methodologies, compliance frameworks, and risk-remediation workflows into repeatable, client-specific deliverables. At its core, Cynomi automates the labor-intensive parts of CISO advisory work—discovery, risk assessment, compliance readiness mapping, policy generation, and continuous monitoring—allowing service providers to deliver CISO-caliber outcomes through teams with junior-to-mid security expertise.

The company's technology foundation combines AI-driven workflow orchestration with embedded cybersecurity domain expertise. Cynomi's platform integrates continuous security assessment (integrating with third-party security tools and scanners), automated risk register generation, compliance framework mapping (across multiple standards), remediation task prioritization, and client-facing reporting. The AI component learns from CISO methodologies and experience—notably including founder David Primor's background as a colonel in Israel's IDF Unit 8200 and director of Israel's cyber authority—to generate tailored security postures, policies, and remediation plans for each client without extensive manual configuration. This reduces time-to-discovery from weeks to hours and assessment time by approximately 50%, while standardizing service delivery quality across a partner's client base.

Cynomi's go-to-market strategy leverages the MSP/MSSP channel as its primary distribution vector. Rather than selling directly to enterprises, the company enables service providers to offer higher-margin, advisory-grade security services without scaling their internal expertise proportionally. This channel model aligns incentives: as service providers grow their client base, they expand Cynomi adoption. The company has built integrations with platforms like Pax 8 (a major MSP marketplace) and launched the vCISO Academy to enable partner teams. Traction evidence includes partnerships with numerous established consultancies and managed security firms, case studies showing deployment across hundreds of partner organizations, and strong funding momentum.

Funding and team composition reflect both Israeli cybersecurity deep-tech roots and global scale ambitions. Founded in 2021 with $3.5M seed funding, Cynomi raised $20M in Series A (2024) and $37M in Series B (2025), totaling approximately $60M+ to date. Leadership spans Israeli cyber-military backgrounds (CEO David Primor, VP Product Reut Roich both from Unit 8200 and Israel's cyber authority), operational scaling experience (COO Roy Azoulay, founder and Oxford startup incubator operator), and MSP/enterprise channel expertise (CRO Shane Deegan from ThreatLocker, CMO Erin McLean from eSentire). This mix suggests credible execution capability in both product development and channel commercialization.

Competitive positioning differentiates Cynomi by purpose-building for service-provider economics and operational constraints, in contrast to GRC platforms (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe) that primarily target direct enterprise buyers. While those platforms offer compliance automation, they assume in-house security teams. Cynomi's value proposition is explicitly MSP/MSSP-centric: repeatable onboarding, delegation of senior-level analysis to AI, and business intelligence linking security gaps to upsell opportunities. This positioning reduces direct competition from large enterprise GRC vendors but intensifies competitive pressure within the vCISO and MSP-focused security ops category.

Dual-use relevance is substantive. Cynomi's core technology—automated governance, risk assessment, compliance readiness, and continuous monitoring—has both strong commercial and credible defense/public-sector applications. In civilian markets, it addresses a persistent problem: SMBs and critical-infrastructure-adjacent organizations (healthcare, finance, local government) lack resources for dedicated CISO functions but face increasing regulatory requirements. In public-interest and defense contexts, the same capabilities enable structured security maturity scaling for organizations (including government agencies, military-adjacent contractors, and critical infrastructure operators) that cannot afford full internal security teams. The platform's compliance framework coverage and remediation prioritization logic are directly transferable to government security standards and incident response workflows. This dual-use applicability is not incidental but core to the company's mission and technology design.