F5 Buys Startup Fletch to Automate Security With Agentic AI

Context-Driven Insights, Automation Fuel Faster, Clearer Decisions for Cyber Teams Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • June 2, 2025

F5 purchased a San Francisco-based threat management startup led by a serial entrepreneur to bring agentic AI into the company's application delivery and security platform.

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The Seattle-based company said its acquisition of Fletch will simplify cybersecurity by turning complex, voluminous data into clear, prioritized tasks using AI and natural language processing. Fletch's agentic AI can autonomously correlate threat intelligence with internal data, F5 said, providing deep contextual intelligence, eliminating alert fatigue and shifting security teams from reactive to proactive operations.

"Security teams are drowning in data, alerts and logs," F5 Chief Innovation Officer Kunal Anand said in a blog post. "They need actionable context to reduce complexity and respond efficiently. By adding Fletch's agentic AI capabilities ...