Jazz Security
85 employees on LinkedIn · 6 known investors
Jazz provides an AI-powered investigation platform that automatically analyzes suspicious data activities and delivers clear narratives about security incidents. The system reconstructs the full context of data flows across endpoints, systems, people, and business logic to help security teams understand and respond to threats.
Also known as Jazz · Jazz Security Ltd.
Founders & leadership
Investors · 6
Also in the syndicate · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Jazz Security is an Israeli cybersecurity company building an AI-native data loss prevention (DLP) platform. The product captures activity across applications and endpoints through a forensic endpoint agent and analyzes it across four dimensions of context — data, systems, people, and business — to determine whether a given data movement is risky. Rather than emitting pattern-matched alerts, the platform is designed to deliver pre-investigated findings that explain what happened and why it matters, and to let analysts manage policy in natural language.
At the center of the product is Melody, an agentic investigator that analyzes events, produces investigated answers, and suggests policy improvements based on observed behavioral trends and policy intent. The prevention layer applies graduated responses: nudging users, requesting justifications, escalating events for human review, or applying targeted blocks, with the stated aim of limiting disruption to legitimate work. The platform also provides granular controls over what is monitored, investigated, retained, and shown to analysts, which the company presents as a privacy control layer for operating DLP at scale.
Jazz positions the product against both legacy rule-based DLP and newer tools that add AI to existing rule engines, and targets use cases including insider risk, departing-employee investigations, shadow and homegrown applications, desktop activity, and governance of generative-AI usage. Named customers and reference contacts in public materials include AlphaSense, Lemonade, CAVA, Similarweb, Rokt, Cass Information Systems, UCLA Anderson School of Management, and UHSP.
Founding story
Jazz was founded by Ido Livneh (Co-Founder and CEO), Noam Issachar (Co-Founder and CBO), Yonatan Zohar (Co-Founder and CTO), and Jake Turetsky (Co-Founder and Chief AI). The founding team combines Israeli cyber-unit experience with prior roles at security companies including Axonius, Laminar, and Oligo. The company was built around the thesis that DLP's rule-based framework is structurally broken, since rigid machine-generated rules produce noise that humans cannot realistically investigate.
Business model
Jazz sells a B2B SaaS data loss prevention platform to enterprises, deployed via a forensic endpoint agent and positioned as requiring no integrations and no rule writing. Its stated design goal is for a single analyst to operate an entire DLP program, which the company frames as a reduction in the staffing and tuning overhead associated with legacy DLP suites.
Business-to-business software as a service sold to enterprise security organizations.
Traction
At its March 2026 stealth emergence, Team8 reported that Jazz had more than a dozen customers in production, and Calcalist reported approximately 45 employees, most in Israel. Public customer references include AlphaSense, Lemonade, CAVA, Similarweb, Rokt, Cass Information Systems, UCLA Anderson School of Management, and UHSP. The company was hiring across eight open roles in engineering, G&A, marketing, and sales as of the sources reviewed.
Latest developments
Jazz emerged from stealth in March 2026 with $61 million in disclosed seed and Series A funding co-led by Team8 and Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and Encoded Ventures, and reported more than a dozen production customers at launch. In July 2026 the company announced the appointment of six senior leaders to support its next growth stage, and it continues to hire across engineering in Tel Aviv and go-to-market functions in Boston.
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Market position
Jazz is an early-stage entrant in the data loss prevention and insider-risk market, competing with incumbent DLP suites from Microsoft, Broadcom/Symantec, Forcepoint, and Trellix, and with newer data-security vendors including Cyera, Varonis, and Nightfall. Its disclosed financing, investor syndicate, and early production deployments indicate commercial validation, though public materials do not establish retention, expansion revenue, gross margins, or category leadership. Public evidence of customer traction is largely company- and investor-reported rather than independently audited.
Jazz differentiates on an AI-first investigation and prevention workflow rather than static classification and manually maintained rules: total endpoint coverage feeding an agentic investigator that returns analyst-readable reasoning, natural-language policy management, and graduated, context-aware enforcement. The company also emphasizes fast deployment without integrations and privacy controls over monitoring and data retention. These differentiators remain exposed to feature convergence by incumbent DLP suites, incumbent distribution advantages, and customer caution about autonomous security decision-making.
Technology
The platform combines a forensic endpoint agent for broad activity capture with AI-driven contextual analysis across data, systems, people, and business dimensions. Melody, the agentic investigator, analyzes each event to produce pre-investigated answers, manages and optimizes the program, and proposes policy improvements based on behavioral trends and policy intent. Detection covers vectors that the company identifies as blind spots for legacy tools, including generative-AI usage, desktop activity, and homegrown or shadow applications. Enforcement is adaptive, spanning user coaching, justification requests, escalation, and targeted blocking, and administrators can scope what is monitored, investigated, retained, and presented to analysts.
Go-to-market
Jazz goes to market directly to enterprise security teams, using demo requests as the primary conversion path on its website and building a sales organization in Boston that includes enterprise account executives, SDRs, solutions engineering, and RevOps. Marketing assets include CISO testimonials, a blog, and a podcast-style series ("DLP Sucks Live"). The company segments prospects by DLP maturity — organizations adopting DLP for the first time, those migrating off legacy DLP, those with cultural concerns about employee monitoring, and those augmenting an existing deployment.
Security-conscious enterprises with sensitive data, including regulated organizations. Named customers and reference contacts span insurance (Lemonade), financial information services (Cass Information Systems, AlphaSense), food service (CAVA), web analytics (Similarweb), e-commerce technology (Rokt), and higher education (UCLA Anderson School of Management, UHSP). Buyers are CISOs, CIOs, security analysts, and GRC teams, including lean teams seeking to run a DLP program with minimal headcount.
Geography
Jazz Security Ltd. is registered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, with a listed address at 52 Derech Begin. The company maintains offices in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Boston, USA, with open roles across engineering in Israel and G&A, marketing, and sales in Boston. Most employees are in Israel with the remainder in the United States. One directory lists the company's headquarters as New York, United States.
History
Jazz Security Ltd. was incorporated in Israel on 29 October 2024 and is registered with the Israeli Registrar of Companies under number 517058764, with an address at 52 Derech Begin, Tel Aviv-Yafo. The company operated in stealth before emerging publicly in March 2026 alongside the disclosure of $61 million in seed and Series A financing, at which point Team8 reported more than a dozen customers in production. In July 2026 the company announced the appointment of six senior leaders.
Risks & controversies
Public evidence on Jazz is largely company- and investor-reported rather than independently verified, and there is no published data on retention, expansion revenue, or gross margins. The reliability of autonomous, model-driven security decisions outside reference accounts is untested in public materials, and deployment scaling across heterogeneous data environments has not been demonstrated publicly. The company also faces the risk of feature convergence from incumbent DLP vendors with established enterprise distribution, and employee-monitoring products carry inherent workforce-privacy and cultural adoption sensitivities that the company addresses through configurable monitoring and retention controls. Public materials reviewed do not show defense contracts, government deployments, or security clearances.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsCompany news post announcing the appointment of six senior leaders to support its next stage of growth.
Jazz Security exited stealth in March 2026, disclosing $61 million raised across seed and Series A rounds co-led by Team8 and Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, MassMutual Ventures and Encoded Ventures.
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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Jazz Security do?
- Israeli company building an AI-native data loss prevention platform with an agentic investigator that pre-investigates data activity.
- Who founded Jazz Security?
- Jazz Security was founded by Ido Livneh, Noam Issachar.
- Who are Jazz Security's investors?
- Jazz Security's investors include Encoded Ventures, Glilot Capital Partners, MassMutual Ventures, Team8 Capital.


