7AI
Boston, USA
- Series A
- $166M raised
- Founded 2024
Swarming AI agents that take over the investigation work human SOCs cannot staff.
Raised $130M Series A led by Index Ventures, December 2025
Independent XDR, MDR, and detection-engineering startups. Not the public mega-cap EDR floor.
18 companies · ordered by name · no paid placement · About this category
Boston, USA
Swarming AI agents that take over the investigation work human SOCs cannot staff.
Raised $130M Series A led by Index Ventures, December 2025
United States
Composable security operations platform that runs detections on data in motion and lets teams pick their own storage and SIEM back end.
Raised $25M in a round co-led by Cheyenne Ventures and AVP, July 2026
Eden Prairie, USA
Concierge MDR on the Aurora platform, now with its own endpoint prevention.
Launched Aurora Endpoint Security and acquired Cylance from BlackBerry in 2025
Dallas, USA
MSSP-first agentic SOC that wires intel, hunting, detections, investigation, and response into one loop.
Raised $25M Series A led by SYN Ventures, January 2025
Tel Aviv, Israel
Defensive cybersecurity AI lab training its own foundation model to power agents that work inside security teams.
Raised a $60M seed round led by Sequoia Capital, August 2026
United States
Security data pipeline that collects, trims, enriches, and routes telemetry before it reaches the SIEM or data lake.
Raised a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners, July 2026
Seattle, USA
Software-only AI SOC analyst that investigates alerts without a managed service attached.
Raised $37M Series B led by Theory Ventures, July 2025
San Jose, USA
Real-time knowledge graph plus Exabot agents that investigate and stop attacks as they happen.
Raised $125M Series B at a $725M valuation, May 2026
Herndon, USA
Vendor-agnostic MDR that works on the SIEM and EDR you already bought.
Launched MDR coverage for the full AI attack surface, August 2026
Columbia, USA
Managed EDR, identity, and SIEM for businesses that do not run a 24/7 SOC.
Surpassed $250M ARR and 270,000 businesses protected, July 2026
New York, USA
Forensic-grade AI SOC that investigates 100% of alerts, including the low-severity ones MDR skips.
Expanded AI SOC platform for teams outgrowing MDR, March 2026
Tel Aviv, Israel
AI SOC that builds a per-company context graph first, then triages, investigates, and responds to alerts with a human approving actions.
Raised a $35M Series A led by Canaan Partners, July 2026
Menlo Park, USA
Agentic SOC platform covering investigation, hunting, and detection engineering in one mesh.
Raised $30M Series A led by Accel, July 2025
Paris, France
European agentic SOC that turns every alert investigation into posture insight.
Raised $30M co-led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital International, March 2026
Mountain View, USA
Self-improving AI SOC that unifies defense, hunting, and offense on one agent family.
Named to the CB Insights AI 100, May 2026, after 15x customer growth in 2025
Sarasota, USA
AI-native MDR that triages every alert in under a minute, with humans on the loop.
Raised $250M Series B led by Crosspoint, March 2026
Dublin, Ireland
Workflow automation that security teams actually own, now with agentic AI on top.
Raised $125M Series C at a $1.13B valuation, February 2025
Tel Aviv, Israel
Hyperautomation platform turning SOAR playbooks into an agentic SOC.
Raised $140M Series D at a $1.2B valuation, January 2026
Detection and response is the operational heart of this directory: the companies buyers call when alerts keep firing and the team cannot keep up.
This index maps every company whose primary product is detecting, triaging, investigating, or responding to security events, whether delivery is software agents, human-led MDR, or workflow automation. Public mega-cap SIEM and EDR consoles stay off this list.
Every entry carries a 2024 to 2026 proof-of-life signal recorded with a source link, and membership is taxonomy from the research pass.
The products here split into three overlapping shapes: agentic investigation software that clears Tier-1 and Tier-2 alert queues with an evidence trail, managed detection and response where named analysts plus agents own outcomes on the customer's existing stack, and automation platforms that glue tools into deterministic workflows with AI steps where they pay off.
Detection engineering shows up inside the same platforms: agents that write and tune detections from what investigations find. Several of these products are built for MSSP delivery rather than the single-tenant enterprise.
SOC leaders comparing agentic triage software against human-led MDR, MSSP founders looking for multi-tenant platforms, and investors mapping the AI SOC field by what each company actually ships rather than by funding headlines.
Included only when a live company has primary category detection-response. Prevention-first endpoint suites, public mega-cap SIEM platforms, and PR-comment reviewers live in their own categories or off this directory.
Inclusion is category-based and verification-gated, not paid placement and not an endorsement of outcomes.
Listings are the full live catalog slice for this primary category, sorted alphabetically by name. This is not a scored quality ranking and there is no paid placement. Aevral is a disclosed house listing under the same rules (live, no pin). See /transparency.
18 companies. Catalog last reviewed 2026-08-23. Page copy reviewed 2026-09-04. Next review by 2026-10-04. Ordered by name. No paid placement.