Assaf Rappaport
Coverage of Assaf Rappaport in the Nexus archive.
- Inside the $8 billion cybersecurity acquisition that rescued ServiceNow from the ‘Saaspocalypse’
In April 2026, ServiceNow paid $7.75 billion cash for Armis, a platform that monitors connected devices and flags security risks. This was noted as the largest acquisition in ServiceNow’s history, following market instability dubbed “SaaSpocalypse.” From the exit, co-founders Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael split roughly $930 million between them.
- Why Lightspeed and Wiz’s Assaf Rappaport bet $37 million on an AI-powered cyberattacker
A New York-based autonomous offensive security startup raised $37 million in funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Cyberstarts, and angels including Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport. The startup uses AI to simulate continuous cyberattacks, identifying vulnerabilities before real hackers exploit them, following Anthropic’s Mythos model revealing thousands of zero-day flaws.