Edelbyte Lands $70M From Sequoia for AI Agent Analytics

Edelbyte, an Israeli data infrastructure company founded in 2025 by four former Microsoft engineers who built Kusto, emerged from stealth on November 11, 2026 with $70 million in seed and Series A funding, Forbes reported. Sequoia and Quiet Capital led the round, with participation from Greenoaks, Swish Ventures and Startpoint Capital.

The team is the pitch. CEO Avner Aharoni, CTO Evgeney Ryzhyk, VP of Engineering Alexander Sloutsky and VP Platform Engineering Yoni Leibowitz spent "more than a decade together building data systems supporting dozens of Microsoft products and services," according to Globes. Edelbyte now has 40 employees across Israel, the US and Europe, with headquarters split between Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

Aharoni frames it as a generational reset. "The systems companies rely on to search and analyze their data were built for a world before AI," he said, adding that this "creates an opportunity to build a new market leader in search and analytics, with AI at its core from day one."

The company says it is already running petabyte-scale deployments with Fortune 500 customers and claims some see "ten times as many queries within the same budget." No customers are named.

Sequoia partner Balkansky says Edelbyte "combines rich analytics, deployment flexibility, and an architecture built for efficiency." The product is pitched against Snowflake, Databricks and ClickHouse, and arrives as one of several agent-adjacent funding rounds on our wire the same day.