Cyabra

Founders and background

Cyabra was founded in 2017 (according to Globes; TechCrunch gives 2018) by Dan Brahmy, who serves as CEO, Yossef Daar and Ido Shraga. According to Globes, all three are veterans of IDF intelligence units. Up to the merger with the special purpose acquisition company, the company raised $12.3 million, from investors including Founders Fund and OurCrowd. In 2024 Mike Pompeo, former CIA director and US secretary of state, joined its board.

What the system detects

According to Globes, the company monitors conversations on social networks and uses artificial intelligence to identify risks and malicious activity. In its announcements it describes the goal as detecting coordinated influence campaigns, bot activity and synthetic threats, meaning content created with artificial intelligence. According to TechCrunch, the system is meant to determine when automated accounts are being used to spread falsehoods. Its customers are governments, security bodies and companies that want to know whether the conversation around them is authentic. In 2026 the company launched an AI agent that automatically carries out its analysts' investigation method for detecting coordinated activity.

Work for governments and private clients

According to Globes, Elon Musk hired Cyabra to analyze the extent of bot activity on Twitter before he bought the network. In 2024 the company said that in the previous year it had worked with 19 governments to protect election systems. After the end of the second quarter of 2026, it reported a multi-year contract with an intelligence agency in the Asia-Pacific region. These are figures the company itself provided, and most government customers are not named. Around the IPO, Globes reported that the company had announced uncovering a pro-Iranian disinformation campaign that, according to its data, reached 145 million views, most of them on TikTok. In June 2026 it was named a Market Shaper in Gartner's first report on narrative intelligence, recognition the company itself highlighted in its announcements.

The road to Nasdaq

In July 2024, Cyabra announced a merger with the special purpose acquisition company Trailblazer Merger Corporation I, at a valuation of $70 million. Management expected then that the merger would be completed by the end of that year, but it was approved only in February 2026. The company's shares began trading on Nasdaq at the end of March 2026 under the ticker CYAB, and according to Globes the price fell by about half in the first days, to a market value of about $35 million.

Its scale as a public company

In the second quarter of 2026 the company reported revenue of $1.9 million, up 39% from the same quarter a year earlier. In that quarter its research and development expenses were about $2.1 million, and it raised $6 million in a private placement. The announcement also said that some customers had not renewed their contracts in 2026. In other words, this is a public company with very small revenue.