AironWorks

AironWorks is an Israeli-Japanese cybersecurity startup founded in August 2021, headquartered in Tokyo with an Israeli engineering presence, built at the intersection of Israeli offensive-security expertise and the Japanese enterprise market. The company began as a phishing-simulation and security-awareness-training platform, recognized with two platinum awards at TechCrunch Tokyo 2021, using AI to generate and manage phishing campaigns and awareness programs for organizations, and reports over 500 organizations and 500,000-plus employees on its platform.

The company has since repositioned around what it calls ‘AiR’ (AI for Resilience) — an evolution from point-in-time phishing simulation toward an agentic AI platform intended to keep organizations continuously ready for attacks, outages, and unplanned disruptions, with marketing that now emphasizes human-risk management in the generative-AI era rather than phishing testing alone. AironWorks has raised a modest $5.65M across a 2021 seed round and a 2024 Series A, with investors including Salesforce Ventures, SBI Investment, Rakuten Capital, and The Garage — a fraction of the capital raised by comparably positioned AI security operations startups.

AironWorks occupies an interesting cross-border niche: a Japanese-Israeli team building for the Japanese enterprise market specifically, where language, culture, and vendor-trust dynamics favor a locally rooted team over U.S. incumbents. Its pivot from phishing simulation toward broader agentic AI resilience is recent and thin on independently verifiable specifics, such as case studies or technical benchmarks, beyond the company’s own conference materials and press releases.