Mate Emerges From Stealth Mode With $15.5 Million in Seed Funding

The cybersecurity startup will use the funds to expand its engineering team, extend collaborations, and get ready for enterprise rollout.

AI-powered Security Operations Center (SOC) startup Mate this week emerged from stealth mode with $15.5 million in seed funding from Team8 and Insight Partners.

Founded in early 2025 by Wiz and Microsoft alumni Asaf Wiener, Oren Saban, and Guy Pergal, Tel Aviv-based Mate relies on AI agents, LLMs, and reasoning models to investigate and resolve incidents.

By automatically resolving alerts and escalating complex incidents with full context, the Israeli startup’s solution aims to turn SOCs into continuously learning defense systems.

It builds a knowledge base that Mate’s AI agents rely on to accurately and efficiently investigate incidents and connect evidence, allowing the SOC to adapt and improve with each resolved issue.

Mate says pilot deployments with financial services and critical infrastructure organizations in Europe and the US ...