# Ofer Smadari

> Ofer Smadari is a seed investor at Torq (Palo Alto) backing Cyber Security and SaaS. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Torq](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stackpulse)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofer-smadari-22b563/

Ofer Smadari is a seed investor at Torq in Palo Alto focused on Cyber Security and SaaS. Ofer Smadari is the Co-Founder & CEO at StackPulse.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $6M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cyber Security | 5 | 56% |
| SaaS | 3 | 33% |
| Network Security | 3 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| DevOps | 1 | 11% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 89% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 5 | 56% |
| United States | 2 | 22% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arrakis Security | Arrakis Security provides runtime protection for AI agent deployments, securing autonomous systems against enterprise threats. The platform defends against prompt injections, privilege escalations, tool poisoning, data exfiltration, and adversarial attacks. It leverages MITRE ATLAS for threat modeling with real-time behavioral monitoring.Least-privilege enforcement and policy-based guardrails ensure safe execution across no-code platforms like n8n, Make.com, and Salesforce AgentForce. Red-Teaming Capabilities - Built-in red-team simulation tools enable security teams to test agent resilience proactively. These mimic real-world attacks—jailbreaks, supply chain exploits, multi-stage manipulations- to uncover vulnerabilities before deployment. ​Advanced Protections - sandboxing for agent isolation, ML-driven anomaly detection, and comprehensive audit trails for compliance. Scales seamlessly for multi-agent orchestration in finance, healthcare, and operations. Arrakis equips enterprises to harness AI potential confidently at a production scale. It closes governance gaps in agentic workflows through rigorous red-teaming and defense-in-depth strategies. | $8M | Seed | Aug 02, 2026 |  |
| Daylight Security | Daylight Security provides agentic security services that allow organizations to operate and establish traditional Security Operations. | $33M | Series A | Nov 04, 2025 |  |
| Daylight Security | Daylight Security provides agentic security services that allow organizations to operate and establish traditional Security Operations. | $7M | Seed | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Axiom | Axiom is an IAMOps platform provider that enables seamless, scalable, and secure Cloud and SaaS authorization. | $7M | Seed | Dec 06, 2022 |  |
| SURF SECURITY | Founded in London, UK in 2022, SURF Security is an endpoint protection Browser-SASE (secure access service edge) cybersecurity company that has created the world’s first enterprise zero-trust browser and extension with security at its core. These two products capitalise on the rise of both the working-from-home phenomenon, and ‘software as aservice’ or SaaS platforms that are used through a browser. SURF secures the browser itself, either replacing or augmenting consumer browsers such as Chrome, Edge, or Safari. This approach helps ensure compliance, defends organisations from breaches and protects users from social engineering attacks such as phishing—all on the user’s device. www.surf.security SURF provides users with freedom of work, letting them interact with applications, data, and each other securely. It addresses the critical business asset neglected by security experts for years: The browser.The browser is the access frontier for everything: users, data, corporate assets, applications, development activities - and cyber criminals, too. SURF Security has transformed the browser into your strongest security asset while providing complete end-user privacy – all with full compliance. Through this centralized platform, SURF insists on identity-first access to all SaaS and corporate assets to guarantee a secured and frictionless user experience. SURF enhances security, performance, and productivity for end-users and applications – faster than ever before. |  | Seed | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Cyclops Security | Cyclops Security develops cybersecurity solutions that help organizations identify and manage software vulnerabilities. The company focuses on application security, software supply chain protection, and improving security processes. | $6.4M | Seed | Sep 12, 2022 |  |
| Stigg | Stigg is a platform that enables software companies to be nimble in their pricing and packaging while freeing up development resources. | $6.4M | Seed | Apr 21, 2022 |  |
| UNIPaaS Payments Technologies | UNIPaaS is a payment solution that enables digital platforms and marketplaces to own, manage, and monetize from financial services. Digital marketplaces and B2B platforms can now own their payment experience and control their funds' flow. They are transforming how businesses integrate and handle payments, reducing financial operations costs,and accelerating the implementation of new growth engines powered by payments and financial services. By monetizing these activities and providing these new services to customers in the right context, digital platforms can effectively increase stickiness, and lifetime value, and generate additional revenues.UNIPaaS was founded in 2020 and is based in Israel. | $10M | Seed | Feb 09, 2021 |  |
| Enso Security | Enso is an information security startup that offers an application security posture management solution.The ASPM platform assists security teams to eliminate application security confusion with application discovery, classification, and management by consolidating data to eliminate breakers in searching and tracking it and integrate with nativecollaboration tools to reduce and optimize manual work. It is easily installed into enterprise systems to create an actionable, unified inventory of all application assets, their owners, security posture, and associated risk. The platform enables teams to create a simplified, agile, and scalable application security program.The company was founded by Roy Erlich, Chen Gour Arie, and Barak Tawily in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv in 2020. | $6M | Seed | Oct 28, 2020 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Maple VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maple-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [toDay.Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/today-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TPY Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tpy-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [11.2 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/112capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Torq

VC Fund · Portland, United States

Torq is a no-code automation platform for security and operations teams. With Torq, frontline security professionals can easily create automated flows that help them respond to threats faster, remediate risks automatically, and deliver better security to their teams.

5 contacts available at Torq.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ofer Smadari | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ofer-smadari |
| Brian Lake | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-lake |
| Eldad Livni | Co-Founder and CPO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eldad-livni |
| Leonid Belkind | Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leonid-belkind |
| Leonid Belkind | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leonid-belkind-3740 |

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## FAQ

### What does Ofer Smadari invest in?

Ofer Smadari invests primarily in Cyber Security, SaaS and Network Security startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ofer Smadari's check size?

Ofer Smadari typically joins rounds of $6M–$10M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ofer Smadari participates in.

### When did Ofer Smadari last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ofer Smadari closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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