7GC Invests in Dream - the First AI Company for National Cybersecurity
7GC II Invests in DREAM’s SERIES B ALONGSIDE Bain Capital
We're thrilled to announce that 7GC is officially an investor and partner in Dream following the company’s successful Series B Financing round led by Bain Capital Ventures.
Dream is pioneering AI-powered cybersecurity for governments and critical infrastructure organizations worldwide. Founded by Shalev Hulio (former CEO of NSO Group), Gil Dolev, and Sebastian Kurz (former Chancellor of Austria), Dream has rapidly scaled to over $100 million in bookings within its first year of product launch, with customers including multiple sovereign nations and critical infrastructure providers.
The asymmetry in modern cybersecurity has reached a critical inflection point. Attackers now outnumber defenders by more than 50 to 1, while the average enterprise security team struggles with 76 different security tools. This fragmentation creates dangerous blind spots - security teams spend over half their time manually producing reports rather than actively defending against threats. Meanwhile, the explosive adoption of AI is introducing entirely new attack vectors that traditional security solutions were never designed to address.
The Problem
With each computing paradigm shift, specialized security platforms emerge as critical infrastructure. With the rise of SaaS applications and the cloud, we saw the creation of leaders like Zscaler ($45B market cap), Crowdstrike ($115B), and Wiz ($32B) to protect cloud workloads. For AI, we are seeing one of the most significant bottlenecks for enterprise/government AI adoption is security, driving a need for dedicated AI security platforms as a new distinct market segment.
The cybersecurity landscape faces an unprecedented challenge. Organizations generate enormous volumes of security data across hybrid cloud and on-prem environments, making threat detection essentially a "massive data problem." Traditional security approaches require months to map networks and identify vulnerabilities, while sophisticated AI-driven attacks can strike in minutes.
For governments and critical infrastructure operators, this gap is existential. They must protect extremely complex environments with limited manpower against nation-state adversaries using zero-day exploits and AI-powered attacks. The status quo of piecing together dozens of point solutions simply cannot scale to meet these threats.
Enter DREAM
Dream has built the first AI-native cybersecurity platform designed for nation-scale protection. The company's proprietary AI models - including its Cyber Language Models trained on vast security datasets and a Hacker Replication Model that simulates nation-state attacks - enable agentless security assessment that maps networks and identifies vulnerabilities in minutes rather than months.
Unlike competitors focused on compliance checkboxes, Dream's "think like an attacker" methodology proactively predicts and neutralizes threats before they cause damage. The platform provides comprehensive coverage from foundational posture management to advanced threat detection, all unified by AI that dramatically reduces alert fatigue, delivering less than 10 critical alerts where competitors generate thousands.
Dream's traction validates the urgent market need for AI-first security. Their government customers report that Dream revealed risks they "had never been able to map before" while providing clear remediation paths. With contract length in years versus months, Dream has built a highly durable enterprise revenue model that is novel in today's AI-native application world.
We look forward to partnering with Shalev, Gil, Sebastian, and the entire Dream team as they establish the new standard for AI-era cybersecurity. We're excited to support them alongside Bain Capital, Group 11, Tau Capital, Aleph, and other leading investors on this mission.