Israeli startup DataAgent Ltd. launched on September 1, 2026, with $10 million in pre-seed funding led by MizMaa Ventures Ltd. and Alicorn Venture Partners. Founded in January 2026 by former Cloudify executives Ishay Yaari and Nati Shalom, the company offers an open-source platform designed to autonomously repair production faults inside Kubernetes clusters. By resolving incidents locally and performing offline root-cause analysis, DataAgent aims to reduce conventional observability costs by up to 90%.
DataAgent $10M pre-seed funding
- ▪Israeli startup DataAgent Ltd. formally launched on September 1, 2026, with $10 million in pre-seed funding.
- ▪DataAgent Ltd. plans to use its $10 million pre-seed funding to accelerate customer adoption of its platform in North America.
Kubernetes autonomous fault resolution
- ▪The DataAgent Ltd. platform reads live system state, topology, and configuration drift, works out what caused an incident, and applies pre-approved fixes.
- ▪The DataAgent Ltd. platform performs deeper root-cause analysis offline after service is restored to shorten the mean time to resolution.
- ▪DataAgent Ltd. developed a platform that repairs production faults inside a customer's own Kubernetes clusters.
- ▪During onboarding, the DataAgent Ltd. platform uses a discovery phase to show customers which classes of failure the software can fix on its own.
Observability cost reduction model
- ▪A 2025 observability survey by Grafana Labs Inc. found that observability spending averages 10% to 17% of total compute infrastructure spending.
- ▪DataAgent Ltd. claims that customers running its platform alongside existing tools can cut up to 90% of their observability bill.
- ▪Conventional observability tools require shipping a paid second copy of a customer's logs and metrics to a vendor's cloud, increasing costs as the system grows.
Open-source agent architecture
- ▪The DataAgent Ltd. software runs inside cloud-native control planes and sits above a customer's existing monitoring stack rather than replacing it.
- ▪The DataAgent Ltd. agent is open source and can be run standalone at no cost, with a paid software-as-a-service tier for fleet management and orchestration.
Ishay Yaari Nati Shalom founders
- ▪Ishay Yaari and Nati Shalom co-founded DataAgent Ltd. in January 2026, serving as chief executive officer and chief technology officer respectively.
- ▪Ishay Yaari and Nati Shalom previously worked at Cloudify Platform Ltd., which Dell Technologies Inc. acquired in 2023 for a reported $100 million.
MizMaa Ventures Alicorn investment
- ▪MizMaa Ventures Ltd. and Alicorn Venture Partners led the $10 million pre-seed funding round for DataAgent Ltd.
- ▪MizMaa Ventures Ltd. previously backed Tenet Security Inc., which launched in June 2026 with $6 million in seed funding.
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