Mate has officially emerged from stealth after securing a $15.5m seed investment from Team8 and Insight Partners.
The fresh capital will be used to expand its engineering organisation, deepen design-partner collaborations and prepare the company for wider enterprise deployment.
The company said the launch comes amid unprecedented pressure on security teams, who are facing rising alert volumes, greater data flows and persistent staff shortages. Research from Devo shows that 83% of analysts feel overwhelmed by false positives, noise and missing context, while 85% spend significant time manually gathering evidence simply to make alerts actionable. With CISOs expected to achieve more with leaner teams, the current model of adding more dashboards and tools is failing to keep pace.
To counter this, Mate has built a system that integrates directly into the existing SOC stack, embedding on day one into SIEMs, EDR platforms and email security tools. Its technology leverages LLMs, reasoning engines and AI agents capable of autonomously analysing alerts, connecting evidence and resolving incidents. Straightforward alerts are fully documented and resolved automatically, while complex cases are escalated with richer context for analysts.
Mate said its platform begins forming a continuously learning knowledge base within hours of deployment. By absorbing the expertise of top analysts, the system builds the context required to investigate incidents with enterprise-grade accuracy, enabling analysts to operate up to 10× more effectively.
Early pilots across financial services and critical infrastructure organisations in the US and Europe have reportedly delivered noticeable reductions in mean time to respond (MTTR) and time wasted on false positives. For CISOs tackling talent shortages and rising threat volumes, Mate said the technology has enabled faster investigations and SOC environments that improve with every resolved incident, without necessitating proportional increases in staffing.
The company is already partnering with major financial institutions and infrastructure operators across the US, Europe and Israel to validate its system in high-stakes environments. Its founding team brings together 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.”
Ori Barzilay, partner at Team8 Capital, 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.”
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