Cyera and Oasis: Stronger Together

Sequoia's Bogomil Balkansky first met Oasis Security co-founder Danny Brickman back in 2021, before the company even existed, and wrote him up in an investment memo a couple years later at the Series A. He noted Brickman shared the same Talpiot pedigree — Israel's military leadership training program — as the founders of Wiz and Cyera. That resemblance just turned out to be more than a coincidence: Oasis is now joining Cyera outright.

The two companies came at the same problem from opposite ends. Brickman and co-founder Amit Zimerman built Oasis around what they call agentic access management — tracking the API keys, service accounts, OAuth tokens and agent-to-agent credentials that now vastly outnumber human logins inside a company, each carrying real permissions and real risk. Cyera, founded by Yotam Segev, Tamar Bar-Ilan and Yonatan Itai, started from a different question: where does an organization's sensitive data actually sit, and who can reach it. As AI agents began reading and acting on that data directly, both teams landed on the same conclusion — you can't secure one without the other.

Put side by side, the products cover different halves of the same problem. Cyera maps where sensitive data lives; Oasis tracks every credential and account that might touch it, and whether that access looks legitimate. Sequoia's Balkansky and Doug Leone compare it to guarding a bank vault: you need to know what's inside and who's walking up to it. Combined, the two products span the whole route an AI agent takes through a company's systems, from the data itself to the identity used to reach it.

There's a business logic here too, not just a technical one. Cyera has assembled an enterprise sales operation that Sequoia says usually takes a startup a decade to build, and Oasis's product now rides through that same channel into accounts it would have taken years to win alone. The timing matters — whoever ships the first genuinely complete AI security platform covering data, identity and agents has a shot at becoming the standard enterprises build around as agentic AI spreads.

Sequoia frames the founders' shared background as more than trivia: Talpiot and Unit 8200 alumni have produced a disproportionate share of the last decade's major cybersecurity companies, so two Sequoia-backed teams converging on complementary answers is less freak accident than pattern. Oasis, the firm notes, built a category-defining non-human identity business in under three years. Sequoia has backed both companies since their Series A rounds and says it's staying in for the next chapter as one combined team.