Where Managed Security Meets AI-Scale
Shield8 transforms traditional MSSPs into AI-driven growth engines, delivering next-generation AI defense and providing partners with a clear path to modernization, scale, and monetization
Redefining Managed Security for the AI Era
Shield8 is pioneering the AI-native MSSP model, rolling up leading U.S. MSPs and MSSPs under
a unified national brand.
We replace people-scaling with AI-scaling to unlock sustainable growth, stronger margins, and superior customer outcomes.
Our platform combines AI for security and security for AI - leveraging artificial intelligence to automate and augment operations while protecting the integrity of AI systems, data, and applications. Through AI Automation, AI Augmentation, and AI-Powered SecOps Engineering, Shield8 transforms efficiency, productivity, and resilience across managed security services.
Anchored by robust financial backing and led by experienced entrepreneurs with deep cybersecurity domain expertise, proven roll-up experience, and strong access to Israeli cyber innovation,
Shield8 provides its partners a path to modernization, scale, and monetization, coupled with long-term value creation.
From core services to cutting-edge AI protection, Shield8 delivers end-to-end managed security for the AI era.
Our offerings include core capabilities such as Managed Detection and Response (MDR), security compliance, and penetration testing, complemented by next-generation AI-driven defenses that protect against emerging threats.
Shield8’s advanced AI threat protection secures the use of Generative AI and defends organizations against AI-powered deception and adversarial attacks, ensuring resilience in an ever-evolving threat landscape.
Modernizing Security Operations
From Traditional to AI-Native Security Services
From core services to cutting-edge AI protection, Shield8 delivers end-to-end managed security for the AI era.
The Fast Track to AI-Driven Scale and Efficiency
Shield 8 Partners undergo a three-phase AI transformation
Powered by Shield8’s prebuilt AI-transformers:
AI Enablement – AI Automation and augmentation layered onto legacy stacks for immediate efficiency gains and enhanced customer value.
Data & Detection Integration – Consolidating telemetry and detection logic into the Shield8 Data & AI Fabric to enhance security efficacy, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Service Modernization – AI-powered customer interfaces delivering efficient, transparent, and customer-centric managed security services.
Shield8’s
Innovation Engine
Shield8 leverages its venture arm, AlphaDrive - an Israel-U.S. VC powering cybersecurity innovation for the AI era.
Through AlphaDrive, Shield8 sources, validates, and integrates cutting-edge, production-ready technologies directly into its platform.
These innovations span from a Generative AI Connector Fabric that enables rapid, efficient ingestion of any security telemetry or threat intelligence source, to Autonomous Triage Agents that eliminate manual overhead, and AI-driven Investigation & Response Copilots that advance detection, decision-making, and remediation to new levels of productivity and precision.
Founding Team
Shield8’s founding team combines decades of cybersecurity leadership, venture experience, and M&A execution across the U.S. and Israel
Blending U.S. business leadership with Israeli cyber innovation, we deliver the scale, deal-making expertise, and continuous stream of breakthrough technologies that power next-generation security
US TEAM
Scott Lipsitz
Co-Founder
• 30+ years of entrepreneurship, investment banking, and M&A • Co-founded Rainmaker Capital, a boutique investment bank focused on technology • Deep corporate development background across tech, media, and healthcare •
Erik Ott
Co-Founder
Edwin Metcalf
Corporate Development
• 30 years of corporate development and M&A experience • Built global partnerships across tech, media, and telecom • Managed sell-side engagements and aggregated acquisition volume for public companies •
• Experienced in structuring acquisitions, fundraising, and strategic partnerships in technology • Track record as an M&A operator focused on scaling tech companies •
ISRAEL TEAM
Yaron Elad
Co-Founder &
Managing Partner
Elik Etzion
Co-Founder &
Managing Partner
• Nearly two decades of tech investment leadership • Former CEO & Managing Partner, Elron Ventures and Rafael Development Corp, with $500M deployed and 20+ M&A transactions • Partnered with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems on cybersecurity, SaaS, deep tech, and defense investments • Co-founded AlphaDrive Ventures - a Multi-Stage VC Powering Cyber security innovation for the AI Era •
• Leading Israeli cybersecurity and technology expert with 30 years’ experience • Retired as Deputy Commander of Unit 8200’s Cyber Division, where he led AI, data science, and offensive cyber • Former CISO of Bank Hapoalim, safeguarded Israel’s financial sector; board roles at Masav, SHVA, Israel Discount Bank • Former Managing Partner, Elron Ventures; founded CyberFuture global CISO alliance • Co-founded AlphaDrive Ventures - a Multi-Stage VC Powering Cybersecurity innovation for the AI Era •
We Take Pride in Israel's cyber security market Numbers
Israel’s 2025 cybersecurity innovation market is characterized by record-breaking exit volumes, a sharp rise in mega-deals, and continued leadership in deal value and investor focus, even as overall funding rounds and deal counts have declined
$6.3B
Capital raised by Israeli cybersecurity startups
(2024–2025)
190
Total cybersecurity funding rounds
(2024-2025)
$71B
The cybersecurity sector witnessed historic M&A activity in 2025, nearly five-fold higher than the prior year
40%
Israeli cybersecurity attracts the largest share of U.S. private funding