Shahar Bahat is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pluto Security, pioneering the first AI Workspace Security platform that gives enterprises real-time visibility, contextual risk assessment, and control over how employees use and build with AI tools.

Bahat served five years in Israel's elite Unit 8200, where she earned the Israel Defense Prize, before going on to hold senior cybersecurity leadership roles at Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks.

A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Bahat is redefining enterprise security with the philosophy that protection should enable innovation, not block it, shifting the industry from reactive blocking to intelligent, intent-aware enforcement.

Bahat co-founded Pluto in 2025 alongside CPO Tal Ofer Regev and CTO Gil Maman, raising $42M in total funding from Jump Capital, TLV Partners, and Skinos Ventures, and was selected for the AWS-CrowdStrike-NVIDIA Cyber Accelerator program.

In under a year of commercial operations, Pluto secured over 1 million endpoints globally, surpassed $2M in ARR, signed 40+ enterprise customers including Oscar Health and AlphaSense, and won the inaugural Best Emerging Technology Award at the 2026 Innovate Cybersecurity Summit.