Mate has emerged from stealth after securing a $15.5m seed round led by Team8 and Insight Partners.
The company, founded in early 2025, aims to reshape how Security Operations Centers (SOCs) function across large enterprises.
The company said the launch comes at a time when security teams are buckling under soaring alert volumes, manual investigation workloads and significant talent shortages. Referencing recent Devo research, the firm highlighted that 83% of analysts feel overwhelmed by alert noise and lack of context, while 85% spend substantial time manually gathering evidence.
Mate claims this environment is pushing CISOs to seek solutions that allow their teams to achieve more without adding additional headcount.
Mate builds technology designed to embed directly into existing SOC stacks, sitting across tools such as SIEMs, EDRs and email security platforms. Its platform uses LLMs, reasoning engines and AI agents that can autonomously investigate alerts, connect evidence, resolve simple incidents, and escalate complex ones with enriched context.
The system continuously absorbs knowledge from top analysts, creating a dynamic intelligence base within hours of implementation. According to Mate, this enables AI agents to operate with enterprise-grade accuracy and significantly accelerate response workflows, while making analysts up to 10× more effective.
Early pilots with organisations in financial services and critical infrastructure across the US and Europe have reportedly seen material reductions in mean time to respond (MTTR) and time spent on false positives. The company said this has allowed SOC teams to scale operations without scaling headcount, while benefiting from a system that improves with every new incident.
Mate is already collaborating with major financial institutions and infrastructure operators in the US, Europe and Israel as it prepares for a broader enterprise rollout. Its founding team includes alumni from Wiz and Microsoft with backgrounds in cyber operations and large-scale security product development.
“The old approach of configuring and maintaining endless playbooks doesn’t scale,” Mate CEO and co-founder Asaf Wiener said, “Attackers are already using AI to launch bigger and faster campaigns. Security teams need tools that don’t just keep up but actually learn and improve continuously. That’s why we built Mate – to help SOCs move with clarity, consistency, and confidence, even in the most fragmented environments.”
Team8 Capital partner Ori Barzilay added, “Mate is the proof that AI isn’t the future of security operations- it’s the present. The problem and opportunity are massive, and it takes a very specific kind of founders to seize them. This team has already built some of the most impactful security products of the past decade, and they’re perfectly positioned for this next chapter.
SOC teams are moving fast to adopt AI, and Mate’s rapid progress since our investment underscores how quickly this market is transforming. When attackers scale with AI, the only way to fight back is to scale the team and arm them with the power of AI agents, and Mate does exactly that.”
Recently, Tenzai, which specialises in autonomous penetration testing powered by agentic AI, emerged from stealth with a record-breaking $75m seed round.
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