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Hysolate

Cybersecurity Acquired asset Dual-Use Technology Founded 2016

Last updated: Jul 31, 2026

Hysolate developed endpoint-based web and workspace isolation that separated risky browsing, applications, and data from protected enterprise activity on the same device. Perception Point acquired the company in March 2022 and incorporated its technology into a broader content- and browser-security offering.

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Company Overview

Hysolate was an Israeli cybersecurity startup founded in 2016 by Team8, Dan Dinnar, and Tal Zamir. Its product created locally isolated workspaces on an endpoint, allowing a user to access untrusted websites, downloads, SaaS applications, or other higher-risk content without placing the primary enterprise environment and its data in the same trust boundary. The value proposition was practical rather than purely theoretical: preserve a familiar native-device workflow while reducing the blast radius of browser exploits, malicious files, credential theft, and accidental data movement. Public descriptions characterize the platform as an isolated virtual environment that could be deployed and managed from the cloud, rather than as a conventional remote desktop service.

The technical approach sat between browser isolation, endpoint virtualization, and workspace segmentation. Hysolate emphasized a local isolated environment and the ability to split a device into separate workspaces, which could reduce latency and user friction compared with routing all browsing through a remote browser or virtual desktop. That architecture was attractive for organizations that wanted stronger separation for risky activity while retaining access to existing endpoint tools and workflows. The important diligence question is the strength of the actual isolation boundary, including hypervisor and hardware dependencies, clipboard and file-transfer controls, administrative escape paths, update mechanisms, and behavior under a compromised host or guest. Public marketing supports the product concept, but does not by itself establish a particular assurance level or certification.

The initial market was enterprise security, with a notable orientation toward regulated and security-sensitive organizations. Hysolate raised venture financing, including an $18 million Series B reported in 2018, and later financing was reported before the company was acquired. Public profiles describe backing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Team8, and Planven Capital. These are commercialization and investor-validation signals, but they are not sufficient evidence of durable revenue scale, retention, or government deployment. Public reporting around the acquisition also indicates that roughly 25 technical employees joined Perception Point, while the independent company had reduced some sales and marketing activity before the deal; this makes the old 50+ employee metadata unsuitable as a current company measure.

Perception Point announced its acquisition of Hysolate on March 30, 2022, explaining that Hysolate would extend its prevention-as-a-service portfolio from email and cloud collaboration channels into web security. Perception Point subsequently described browser security powered by Hysolate technology. Hysolate therefore should not be treated as an independent Series B startup available for new direct diligence. The relevant strategic signal is an acquihire and technology-integration outcome: a content-security vendor considered endpoint isolation valuable enough to add to its platform, while the public record does not establish the purchase price or the long-term standalone product trajectory.

The defense and national-security relevance is credible at the capability level, but should be stated cautiously. Endpoint compartmentalization can help separate untrusted internet activity, contractor workflows, sensitive applications, and different organizational trust zones on a common device. That is relevant to defense contractors, government users, and other high-assurance environments. However, no source reviewed here verifies Hysolate deployment in a classified environment, a specific government contract, or compliance with a named classification regime. Its strategic importance is therefore best understood as enabling technology for endpoint and browser security, with potential government and defense applicability rather than proven defense adoption.

Dual-Use Assessment

Military & Commercial Applications

Hysolate's core endpoint isolation capability has substantive commercial and security-sector applicability: isolating risky web content, downloaded files, and sensitive applications can reduce malware exposure, credential theft, data leakage, and lateral-movement risk. The same compartmentalization pattern can be relevant to defense contractors, government workforces, and multi-trust-zone operations. The public record reviewed does not verify classified deployments, government contracts, or certification, so the defense case is a credible technical adjacency rather than demonstrated defense traction.

Strategic Fit Assessment

Hysolate is an acquired asset rather than an independent company: Perception Point announced the acquisition in March 2022 and subsequently used Hysolate technology in its browser-security offering. The company is therefore not a current standalone investment or sourcing target in this database. Its historical financing, endpoint-isolation architecture, and acquisition outcome are useful strategic signals, but public information does not justify claims about acquisition value, recurring revenue, customer retention, certification, or current standalone operations.

Strategic Value to U.S.-Israel Alliance

Hysolate demonstrated strategic value by applying endpoint isolation to a user-experience problem that conventional secure browsing and virtual-desktop approaches can make costly or inconvenient. Its acquisition gave Perception Point a route from email and cloud-content prevention into endpoint-centric web security, and the buyer later described browser security powered by Hysolate technology. For defense and national-security readers, the transferable capability is local compartmentalization of risky and sensitive activity; the evidence supports potential relevance to high-assurance environments, not verified classified use.

Key Technologies

  • Local endpoint virtualization and isolated workspaces
  • Hardware-assisted execution isolation
  • Browser and web-content isolation
  • Cloud-managed endpoint policy and workspace deployment
  • Application and data compartmentalization
  • Controlled transfer boundaries for files and user activity

Use Cases & Applications

  • Safe browsing of untrusted websites from an enterprise endpoint
  • Opening downloaded files without exposing the primary corporate workspace
  • Separating sensitive enterprise applications from higher-risk user activity
  • Reducing browser-based malware and credential-theft exposure
  • Compartmentalizing contractor or partner access on managed devices
  • Supporting separate trust zones for regulated or security-sensitive workflows
  • Protecting remote and hybrid workers without requiring a separate physical device

Sources and verification

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Investor Lens

What this entry is

Acquired asset

Why it may matter

Hysolate may matter as a Cybersecurity entry with not currently an investable standalone company for Israeli technology research.

How an independent investor should read this

Not currently an investable standalone company. Read this profile as a starting point for independent verification, not as a recommendation or suitability assessment.

Evidence to verify

  • Verify current status
  • Verify technical claims
  • Verify regulatory/export-control issues

Main investor questions

  • Is this entry a benchmark, buyer, ecosystem node, acquired asset, or strategic reference rather than a live startup opportunity?
  • What does this reference clarify about buyers, sector structure, public-market context, or strategic demand?
  • Does the dual-use claim map to actual commercial and government/defense/resilience buyer evidence?
  • What evidence would change the thesis or show that the profile is stale?

What not to infer

  • Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
  • Inclusion does not imply allocation availability or current fundraising.
  • Scores do not indicate investment suitability or expected returns.
  • Strategic importance does not automatically imply venture return potential.
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Diligence questions

  • What evidence verifies Hysolate's current customer traction, deployment status, and revenue concentration?
  • Which technical claims are independently demonstrable today, and which remain roadmap or pilot-stage assertions?
  • Where does the product create real defense, intelligence, critical-infrastructure, or emergency-response value beyond ordinary commercial adoption?
  • How does the platform integrate into existing SOC, cloud, identity, or compliance workflows without adding operational burden?
  • Is the company a live venture opportunity, a mature strategic reference, an acquired asset, or primarily a market-mapping entry?

Related sector

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