Check Point to acquire Lakera

FINANCING

16.09.2025

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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, has entered into an agreement to acquire Zurich-based Lakera, one of the world’s leading AI-native security platforms for Agentic AI applications. Upon closing, Lakera will form the foundation of Check Point’s Global Center of Excellence for AI Security.

Founded by AI experts from Google and Meta, Lakera was engineered specifically for AI-native environments. The company operates major AI R&D centers in Zurich and San Francisco. Its flagship solutions, Lakera Red and Lakera Guard, provide pre-deployment posture assessments and real-time runtime enforcement to protect LLMs, AI agents, and multimodal workflows. Lakera’s platform combines advanced runtime protection with continuous red teaming, reinforced by Gandalf, a worldwide leader of adversarial AI network.

This unique approach ensures evolving defenses that stay ahead of emerging AI threats, giving enterprises confidence to deploy AI securely and at scale. Lakera is trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises worldwide and powered by a team of 11 PhDs, ensuring both technical rigor and enterprise-grade resilience.

Enterprises are rapidly embedding large language models, generative AI, and autonomous agents into core workflows. This accelerates innovation but also expands the attack surface, from data exposure and model manipulation to risks introduced by multi-agent collaboration and autonomous decision-making. As data becomes the new executable and the Internet of Agents takes shape, real-time AI-native security has become a business imperative.

Check Point already secures this transformation through GenAI Protect, SaaS and API security, advanced data loss prevention, and machine learning-powered defenses for applications, cloud, and endpoints. With Lakera, Check Point extends these capabilities to deliver one of the industry’s first end-to-end AI security stack. By combining Lakera’s runtime protection with the AI-powered Check Point Infinity architecture, enterprises can secure the full lifecycle of AI – models, agents and data – enabling them to innovate with confidence, at scale, and without compromise.

$300 million exit

According to several media reports Check Point will pay $300 million for Lakera. The company raised $30 m in two funding rounds in 2023 and 2024.

“Lakera was purpose-built for the AI era, with real-time runtime security and research at its core,” said David Haber, Co-Founder and CEO at Lakera. “Joining Check Point allows us to accelerate and scale our mission globally. Together we will protect LLMs, generative AI, and agents with the speed, accuracy, and guardrails enterprises need to embrace AI with confidence.”

Upon closing, Lakera will form the foundation of Check Point’s Global Center of Excellence for AI Security, accelerating AI security research, innovation, and integration across the Check Point Infinity Platform, establishing Check Point as a global leader in securing the AI-powered enterprise and shaping the future of AI security.

RAW Labs raises USD 5.5 million to help enterprises unlock the value of their data

Lausanne-based RAW Labs completed a USD 5.5 million pre-A funding round with new and existing investors. The funds will support the surge in demand for RAW Lab’s revolutionary data management solution. The company, which was supported by Venture Kick and was a TOP 100 Swiss Startup, also announced Lars Farnstrom as its new CEO.

The financing round was led by a group of investors specializing in investments of high-growth technology companies and investiere.ch. The funding will enable RAW Labs to accelerate the acquisition of large enterprise clients and continue investing in the expansion of the capabilities of its core NoDB data platform. Claude Honegger (former global CIO of Credit Suisse) and Pyrros Koussios (former private equity investor and senior executive at international technology companies) are joining the board of directors.

“We are excited that Lars has accepted the CEO role. His long experience in enterprise software from companies like Siebel Systems and C3.ai is a tremendous asset and will enable us to take RAW Labs to the next level,” said Ariel Luedi, one of the founding investors of RAW Labs and former CEO of SAP Hybris. Professor Anastasia Ailamaki, co-founder of RAW Labs, will continue as Chief Scientific Officer with the mission to strengthen the company’s research into groundbreaking data management technologies.

RAW Labs’ NoDB is a platform for data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to seamlessly access, query, clean, and enhance heterogeneous data sources in near real time and transform them into high-value data products for consumption by analytical tools, ML-models, and enterprise applications.
What makes RAW NoDB unique is its revolutionary query engine, which, unlike any other solution in the market, uses category theory. This gives RAW the unique capability to query large and complex data sources at high performance without the need for any costly and time-consuming ETL/ELT preprocessing or integration with data sources.

“It’s a privilege to have a group of sophisticated investors who have proven experience in helping technology companies scale,” said Lars Farnstrom, CEO of RAW Labs. “Data drives digital transformation. We believe that by eliminating the artificial barrier between operational and analytical data and by enabling this in record time and without any expensive integrations, RAW Labs can help companies accelerate their digital transformation. Just connect your data sources and start asking questions that will help you unlock new insights on how to reduce costs or increase sales,” he continued.