Blackstone DIGITAL

Target: Blackstone Inc., relevant investment vehicles, controlled technology businesses and identifiable principals Research date: 26 October 2026 Scope: Technology procurement, digital infrastructure, Israeli technology investments, data handling, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and potential relationships with Israeli state institutions or occupied territories.

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

1.1 - Verified Israeli-Origin Cybersecurity Suppliers

In July 2023, CTech reported that Blackstone was already a customer of Israeli cybersecurity company Adaptive Shield and would invest approximately $10 million in the company through a strategic arrangement involving integration of its cybersecurity technology into Blackstone’s operations. The reported relationship concerned SaaS security; the source did not disclose the number of protected applications, internal systems or users.¹

Adaptive Shield’s software addresses security posture, identity exposure and anomalous activity across SaaS applications. On 6 November 2024, CrowdStrike announced an agreement to acquire the company and integrate its technology into the Falcon security platform.²

CrowdStrike subsequently disclosed in its SEC annual filing that it completed its acquisition of A.S. Adaptive Shield Ltd. on 20 November 2024. The company reported approximately $214.4 million of acquisition consideration comprising cash and replacement-equity components attributable to pre-acquisition service.³

A separate November 2024 report reiterated that Blackstone had been an Adaptive Shield customer before its investment and that the investment was associated with the integration of Adaptive Shield technology into Blackstone’s operations.⁴

Status: Blackstone’s original relationship was verified for 2023–2024; continuation of the specific deployment after CrowdStrike’s acquisition remains unconfirmed.

1.2 - Additional Named Cybersecurity Supplier

On 2 September 2026, CTech reported that Blackstone led a $27 million investment in Israeli cybersecurity company Huskeys and identified Blackstone among Huskeys’ commercial customers. Huskeys develops technology for detecting and securing automated internet traffic, including traffic generated by AI agents, using technology integrated with web application firewall infrastructure.⁵

Ynet independently reported that Huskeys’ customers included Blackstone, TikTok, Legoland, Ro and Hugging Face, and identified founders Itai Gafni and Roy Weisfeld as former members of Israeli military intelligence Unit 8200.⁶

The public reporting establishes an identified customer relationship and investment in September 2026 but does not quantify Blackstone’s licensing costs, deployment footprint, traffic volumes or access to customer data.⁵

1.3 - Named Enterprise Software Investment

On 16 May 2024, Priority Software announced that Blackstone Growth and affiliated funds had agreed to acquire a majority stake in the Israeli enterprise software provider. Priority offers enterprise resource planning, business management, retail, hospitality and education software supported by more than 100 partners internationally.⁷

Reporting published in 2026 described Blackstone as controlling approximately 70% of Priority Software following the 2024 transaction, with Fortissimo Capital and TA Associates retaining minority interests. The report stated that Priority had approximately 75,000 customers across around 70 countries at the time of the acquisition.⁸

The published ownership relationship establishes Blackstone’s controlling investment in a software supplier; it does not independently establish that Blackstone uses Priority’s ERP products for its own accounting, investment management or internal technology systems.⁷

1.4 - Fintech and Financial-Systems Ecosystem

On 3 October 2023, Stampli announced a $61 million Series D funding round led by Blackstone-managed funds. Stampli provides AI-assisted accounts payable automation, payment products and integrations with more than 70 ERP platforms, including products from SAP, Oracle and Microsoft.⁹

Stampli’s 2026 announcement identified Blackstone among its financial backers and described its expansion into financial-data analysis based on procurement, invoices, payment terms and vendor-related records.¹⁰

Blackstone’s investment in Stampli is established; direct enterprise-wide use of Stampli by Blackstone is not independently verified by the cited financing announcement.⁹

1.5 - Procurement and Integrators

No public evidence identified of a Blackstone-specific integration mandate involving Check Point, Wiz, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, Claroty, SentinelOne or Palo Alto Networks.

No public evidence identified of a named systems integrator deploying these vendors’ products into Blackstone’s internal infrastructure.

No public evidence identified establishing whether Blackstone’s verified Israeli-origin cybersecurity suppliers are peripheral or critical to its complete enterprise security architecture.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

2.1 - Facial Recognition and Biometrics

No public evidence identified of Blackstone directly procuring facial recognition, gait analysis or biometric identification technology from Trigo, BriefCam, AnyVision/Oosto, Trax or a comparable Israeli-origin supplier.

No public evidence identified establishing that Blackstone itself operates biometric retail surveillance infrastructure supplied by these companies.

2.2 - Predictive Analytics and Enterprise Monitoring

Blackstone’s 2023 Adaptive Shield relationship concerned SaaS security monitoring and protection. CrowdStrike’s 2024 acquisition announcement describes capabilities addressing enterprise identity security and SaaS environments, including the detection and management of security exposure.²

Huskeys’ reported 2026 customer relationship with Blackstone concerns protection of web traffic against malicious automation and AI-agent activity. The publicly described product category is commercial web security.⁵

2.3 - Workforce Surveillance and Predictive Policing

No public evidence identified of Blackstone procuring Israeli-origin workforce surveillance, predictive policing, political sentiment monitoring or social-media intelligence software.

No public evidence identified establishing deployment of these technologies through a Blackstone-managed security provider.

2.4 - Third-Party Technology Bundling

CrowdStrike described its planned integration of Adaptive Shield’s SaaS security posture capabilities into the Falcon platform in November 2024. This establishes a vendor-level integration following the acquisition, but does not independently confirm the products or features subsequently licensed by Blackstone.¹¹

No public evidence identified confirming specific surveillance or biometric products indirectly supplied to Blackstone through a third-party bundle.

CrowdStrike’s 6 November 2024 announcement established an agreement to acquire Adaptive Shield and described the proposed expansion of SaaS security capabilities within the Falcon platform. Its language concerning future integration was prospective, although it separately identified an existing integration between Adaptive Shield and CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. CrowdStrike’s subsequent SEC Form 10-K confirms that the acquisition of A.S. Adaptive Shield Ltd. closed on 20 November 2024. A further CrowdStrike publication dated 9 December 2024 described Adaptive Shield as an acquired company and promoted its SaaS security capabilities through Falcon Shield. These disclosures confirm the acquisition-completion date in section 1.1 and clarify section 2.4: the 6 November announcement established planned broader Falcon integration and an existing SIEM integration, while the acquisition closed on 20 November and subsequent vendor publications documented the acquired product’s incorporation into CrowdStrike’s commercial offering. They do not establish that every proposed integration capability was operational on 6 November or that Blackstone subsequently licensed the integrated Falcon product.^{11, 3, 12}

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

3.1 - Israeli Cloud and Data-Centre Operations

No public evidence identified that Blackstone or its identified controlled data-centre businesses operated a named Israeli data-centre campus, co-location facility or sovereign government cloud installation.

No public evidence identified establishing that QTS or AirTrunk operated infrastructure specifically for the Israeli Ministry of Defence or Israeli intelligence agencies.

3.2 - Project Nimbus

No public evidence identified of Blackstone itself holding a Project Nimbus contract or acting as a disclosed Nimbus cloud systems integrator.

No public evidence identified identifying Blackstone as a direct provider of compute, storage, AI infrastructure or cloud-management services under that programme.

3.3 - Data Exposure and Israeli Technology Suppliers

In 2023, Blackstone’s documented use of Adaptive Shield established an operational relationship with a company founded and operating in Israel. The publicly available customer and investment reporting did not specify where Blackstone’s SaaS security telemetry was processed, stored or accessed.¹

In September 2026, reporting identified Blackstone as a Huskeys customer. The company’s technology concerns automated internet traffic management, but the reporting does not establish the data-processing locations or personnel access arrangements for Blackstone’s deployment.⁶

Cyera’s January 2026 announcement identifies its business as enterprise data and AI security. Although Blackstone led the company’s financing, the announcement does not identify Blackstone as a customer of Cyera’s platform.¹³

Cyera’s subsequent Series G announcement describes expansion into data loss prevention, privacy, identity, AI usage governance and enterprise data security. These are commercial product capabilities; the announcement does not document the processing locations of Blackstone’s proprietary data.¹⁴

3.4 - Data Residency and Legal Access

No public evidence identified establishing the storage location, subprocessors, international transfer arrangements or Israeli-jurisdiction access rights governing Blackstone data handled through Adaptive Shield or Huskeys.

No public evidence identified of a Blackstone contract explicitly providing Israeli state institutions with digital sovereignty, data residency or sovereign cloud services.

3.5 - Infrastructure Dependency

No public evidence identified establishing that an Israeli-origin technology platform constitutes Blackstone’s primary cloud provider, principal production data store or enterprise-wide cloud control plane.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

4.1 - Israeli Military and Intelligence Contracts

No public evidence identified of a direct Blackstone technology contract with the Israel Defence Forces, Israeli Ministry of Defence, Mossad, Shin Bet or an Israeli military intelligence organisation.

No public evidence identified establishing direct provision by Blackstone of military communications networks, surveillance platforms, intelligence analytics systems or classified IT hosting to these agencies.

4.2 - Executive and Investment Leadership Backgrounds

Yifat Oron’s 2026 institutional biography identifies her as Blackstone’s Senior Managing Director and head of its Tel Aviv office. The biography states that she previously worked for three years at the Israeli Ministry of Defence’s Directorate of Research and Development, attaining the rank of lieutenant in its Economics, Budget and Control Department.¹⁵

The biography also records Oron’s earlier work at LeumiTech and Vertex Venture Capital and her leadership of Blackstone’s Israeli technology investment activities.¹⁵

4.3 - Portfolio-Company Founders with Military Backgrounds

September 2026 reporting identifies Huskeys founders Itai Gafni and Roy Weisfeld as former members of Unit 8200. The reporting identifies Gafni’s historical AI-related work within the unit and describes Huskeys’ present product as commercial web and AI-agent traffic security.¹⁶

Reporting in December 2025 and 2026 identifies Cyera founders Yotam Segev and Tamar Bar-Ilan as graduates of Israel’s Talpiot military training programme and veterans of Unit 8200. Cyera’s publicly described product concerns enterprise data discovery, classification and cybersecurity.¹⁷

These records establish the named founders’ historical backgrounds and the commercial nature of the companies’ publicly described products. They do not establish military procurement contracts involving Blackstone’s investments.^{16, 17}

4.4 - Dual-Use Technology

7AI describes its technology as AI-driven security operations software capable of automating security alert investigation and response. Its disclosed commercial focus is security operations centre workload automation.¹⁸

Huskeys’ technology addresses malicious automated web traffic and web application firewall protection. Its documented commercial use cases concern protection of online services and enterprise web infrastructure.⁵

4.5 - Offensive Cyber and Digital Weapons

No public evidence identified of Blackstone itself developing, licensing or supplying zero-day exploit systems, offensive cyber weapons or intelligence intrusion platforms to Israeli state institutions.

No public evidence identified of Blackstone providing purpose-built military targeting or fire-control systems. Any such purpose-built systems would require examination within the separate Military domain.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

5.1 - AI-Powered Enterprise Data Security

On 8 January 2026, Cyera announced a $400 million Series F financing led by funds managed by Blackstone. The company reported a valuation of $9 billion and described its commercial activity as AI and enterprise data security.¹³

Cyera subsequently announced a $600 million Series G at a $12 billion valuation with participation from Blackstone among its existing investors. The company described expansion into data protection, identity, privacy, data loss prevention and enterprise AI governance.¹⁴

These announcements establish Blackstone’s financial participation in AI-enabled data security, without establishing specific Israeli state or military customers.^{13, 14}

5.2 - Autonomous Security Operations

On 4 December 2025, Latham & Watkins reported that Blackstone Innovations Investments participated as a new investor in 7AI’s $130 million Series A financing. The law firm confirmed that it represented 7AI in the transaction, which was led by Index Ventures and also included Greylock, CRV and Spark.¹⁹

7AI identifies Blackstone among its investors and states that its AI agents automate detection, investigation, response and threat hunting in security operations environments.¹⁸

The documented designed outputs are security alert handling and cyber-defence workflows. No public evidence identified that Blackstone-financed 7AI technology was designed primarily for kinetic military targeting.

5.3 - AI-Based Internet Traffic Security

September 2026 reporting confirms Blackstone’s participation as lead investor in Huskeys’ $27 million financing. Huskeys develops security technology intended to manage risks arising from autonomous AI agents interacting with websites and web infrastructure.²⁰

The Jerusalem Post independently identified Blackstone’s participation and Huskeys’ origins in technology developed by former Unit 8200 personnel.²⁰

5.4 - AI-Based Financial Automation

Stampli’s October 2023 announcement confirms that Blackstone-managed funds led a $61 million financing of its AI-powered accounts payable platform. Its products automate invoice handling, approval workflows and integration with ERP systems.⁹

In 2026, Stampli described further development of enterprise financial analysis based on procurement and payment data, while continuing to identify Blackstone as an investor.¹⁰

5.5 - ERP and Autonomous Business Processes

An October 2026 report described Priority Software’s plans to integrate generative AI and autonomous AI agents into enterprise resource planning systems, including automation of financial, manufacturing, logistics and business processes. The report identified Blackstone executives Yifat Oron and Tom Nides among speakers at Priority’s Israeli technology summit.²¹

The same event report named former Mossad director David Barnea, then associated with Ondas Defense, among the speakers. The report described conference participation and Priority’s commercial AI roadmap, without establishing a Blackstone or Priority technology contract with Mossad.²¹

5.6 - Military AI Applications and Training Data

No public evidence identified of Blackstone directly supplying AI or machine-learning systems to Israeli military or intelligence agencies.

No public evidence identified of Blackstone-controlled commercial AI products being trained on intercepted Palestinian communications or surveillance-derived data from occupied territories.

No public evidence identified of Blackstone providing autonomous target-generation, kinetic threat-engagement or fire-control AI systems. Purpose-built kinetic targeting systems fall within Military.

Cyera’s primary announcement, published on 10 June 2026 by co-founder Yotam Segev under the title “Building The Trust Layer for Enterprise AI,” confirms that the subsequent financing was a $600 million Series G at a $12 billion valuation. The round was led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from Cyberstarts, Temasek and existing investors including Blackstone, Accel, AT&T Ventures, Coatue and Spark Capital. This confirms the existing $600 million Series G statement in Digital section 5.1 and corrects the conflicting $300 million figure in Economic. The disclosure identifies Blackstone as a participating existing investor but does not specify its individual contribution.¹⁴

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

6.1 - Israeli Investment and Management Presence

Blackstone’s Israeli technology investment operations are led by Yifat Oron, whose 2026 Milken Institute biography identifies her as head of Blackstone’s Tel Aviv office and a senior executive responsible for technology and growth investment activities.¹⁵

A 2024 technology conference report identified Oron and Blackstone Chief Technology Officer John Stecher discussing the firm’s interest in artificial intelligence and its potential application to portfolio companies.²²

6.2 - Priority Software - Majority Acquisition

In May 2024, Blackstone Growth and affiliated funds announced an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Priority Software, an Israeli provider of ERP and enterprise business applications.⁷

Independent reporting in 2026 described Blackstone as having acquired approximately 70% ownership at an approximately $800 million enterprise valuation.⁸

6.3 - Adaptive Shield - Strategic Investment

In July 2023, Blackstone was reported to have invested approximately $10 million in Adaptive Shield, alongside an existing customer relationship and a strategic technology integration arrangement.¹

Adaptive Shield was acquired by CrowdStrike in November 2024, as confirmed by CrowdStrike’s SEC filing.³

6.4 - Stampli - Financial Technology Investment

Stampli announced in October 2023 that it raised $61 million in a Series D led by Blackstone-managed funds. The company provides AI-powered accounts payable and enterprise finance automation.⁹

6.5 - 7AI - Cybersecurity Investment

Blackstone Innovations Investments participated in 7AI’s $130 million Series A in December 2025. Latham & Watkins confirmed Blackstone’s participation in its announcement concerning its representation of 7AI in the financing.¹⁹

6.6 - Cyera - Data Security Investment

Blackstone-managed funds led Cyera’s announced $400 million Series F financing in January 2026, and Cyera subsequently identified Blackstone among investors participating in its later Series G.^{13, 14}

6.7 - Huskeys - Cybersecurity Investment

Blackstone led Huskeys’ $27 million financing announced in September 2026. The company’s publicly described technology focuses on web application security and traffic generated by autonomous AI agents.⁵

6.8 - Corporate Technology Research and Development

7AI states that it was established by Cybereason co-founders Lior Div and Yonatan Striem-Amit and focuses on AI-enabled security operations.¹⁸

Cyera’s founders were reported as Yotam Segev and Tamar Bar-Ilan, with its commercial research and product development directed toward data discovery, classification and AI security.²³

No public evidence identified of Blackstone itself operating a separately named Israeli software engineering laboratory with disclosed technical staffing and research expenditure.

6.9 - Patents and Academic Partnerships

No public evidence identified of a significant Blackstone-held patent portfolio jointly developed with the Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute or another Israeli research institution.

No public evidence identified of a specific Blackstone patent-licensing contract involving Israeli military research institutions.

6.10 - Controlling Principals

No public evidence identified establishing specific personal equity stakes held by Blackstone controlling principals in Israeli offensive-cyber, military targeting or signals-intelligence companies, distinct from investments made by Blackstone-managed entities.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

7.1 - UN and Specialist NGO Investigations

No verified Blackstone-specific technology-contract finding was established from the UN OHCHR settlement database, UN A/HRC/59/23, Who Profits or AFSC Investigate during this research.

No public evidence identified of a specialist NGO investigation establishing that Blackstone itself supplied surveillance, biometrics, AI targeting or cloud services to Israeli authorities operating in occupied Palestinian territories.

7.2 - Settlement Nexus

No public evidence identified of a named Blackstone technology product, controlled software supplier or authorised reseller providing a verified digital service to a specific Israeli settlement.

No public evidence identified of Priority Software, Cyera, 7AI, Adaptive Shield or Huskeys holding an independently documented contract with a named settlement authority.

7.3 - Boycott and Divestment Campaigns

No public evidence identified of an organised technology-specific boycott campaign establishing a particular Blackstone software or cloud service supplied to the Israeli military or to settlements.

No verified corporate response to a technology-specific boycott allegation was identified.

7.4 - Regulatory and Legal Actions

No public evidence identified of export-control enforcement, sanctions proceedings or regulatory findings against Blackstone specifically concerning the provision of cyber, cloud, biometric or AI technology to Israeli state agencies.

No public evidence identified of a Blackstone-specific regulatory decision concerning transfer of Palestinian civilian surveillance data to Israeli authorities.

7.5 - Post-July 2024 Commercial Activity

Following 19 July 2024, Blackstone’s Israeli technology exposure included its controlling interest in Priority Software, subsequently confirmed through 2026 reporting, and financial participation in Cyera, 7AI and Huskeys.^{8, 13, 19, 5}

The commercial activities documented for 2025–2026 continued after the November 2024 ICC arrest warrants, including Blackstone’s investments in AI-enabled cybersecurity and data security providers.^{13, 19, 5}

The cited investment and ownership records do not establish that these companies provided technology to Israeli military operations or occupied-territory settlement infrastructure.^{7, 13, 18}