Guardio Ltd. raised a $40M follow-on round at a $1.1B valuation announced Sept. 3, 2026, bringing total funding to date to $167M following an $80M Series B led by ION Crossover Partners in November. New investor Wiz co-founder and CEO Assaf Rappaport joined existing investors ION Crossover Partners, Union Tech Ventures, Vintage Investment Partners, Cerca Partners and Emerge Ventures. The Israeli startup said the capital will be used to enhance its AI-powered consumer cybersecurity platform — a detection engine delivered via browser extension and mobile protection that flags phishing, scams, malicious sites and downloads — with no revenue, client count or employee metrics disclosed in the article.