Axonius

Axonius was founded in 2017 by Dean Sysman, Ofri Shur, and Shahar Kaminitz. The company is headquartered in New York, with a significant R&D center in Israel. Axonius is a private company that has raised multiple funding rounds, including a Series E announced in 2022 for $200 million, which valued the company at approximately $2.6 billion.

The core product is a Cybersecurity Asset Management platform that gives organizations a unified, continuously updated inventory of all their IT, IoT, and cloud assets — including devices, users, and software agents — aggregated from existing tools into a single source of truth.

Axonius was built around the problem that security teams cannot protect assets they cannot see. The platform connects to hundreds of existing IT and security tools within an organization — such as CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, Jamf, and ServiceNow — and consolidates their data into a single asset inventory, surfacing coverage gaps, unmanaged devices, and policy violations.

The primary buyers are large enterprises in sectors including financial services, healthcare, government, and technology. Typical purchasing decision-makers are CISOs and Security Operations teams. Sales are conducted through a sales-led, enterprise-contract model.

The flagship product is the Axonius Cybersecurity Asset Management platform, which includes a SaaS Management module for visibility into software-as-a-service applications, and Axonius for Networks for network-level asset visibility. The platform advertises more than 800 integrations with existing tools, positioning it as an aggregation layer on top of an organization's existing security stack rather than a replacement for individual tools.

Known direct competitors include Armis and Claroty in the asset visibility and management space, as well as ServiceNow and Qualys, which have overlapping capabilities in IT asset management. Axonius is generally positioned in Gartner's Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) category, where it is recognized as one of the prominent platforms defining the category.

Axonius maintains its primary R&D center in Israel, with a significant portion of its engineering team located in Tel Aviv. All three founders are Israeli, and Dean Sysman has a background rooted in Israeli military technology units. Hiring in Israel typically targets R&D, software engineering, and cybersecurity roles.