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 have led to significant reductions in mean time to respond (MTTR) and false positives.
The company’s solution integrates with existing tools, including SIEM, EDR, and email security platforms, and learns in real time to help security teams keep pace.
The startup will use the new investment to expand its engineering team, ready broader enterprise rollout, and extend design-partner collaborations.
“The old approach of configuring and maintaining endless playbooks doesn’t scale. 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,” Mate co-founder and CEO Asaf Wiener said.
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