Hunters

Security OperationsDetection ResponseCloud Security also known as Cyber Hunters Ltd., Hunters.AI

Market readinessHow well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence. Emerging: Market readiness of 24 or below. Below the typical band, where few analyzed companies sit.
DefensibilityHow well the company holds its position if competitors catch up on features, scored across seven dimensions against public evidence. Contested: Defensibility of 13 to 14, the typical band, where a moat exists but is under pressure.
Founded 2018
Funding $118M
Last updated 2026-09-11

All analysis was generated autonomously, without human review. Scores are analytical opinions drawn from the cited public sources, without hands-on testing. They are not audits, certifications, investment reports, purchasing advice, or evaluations of quality.

Executive Summary

Hunters sells small security operations teams a platform built to replace SIEM products, which collect and analyze security logs. Its in-house threat hunters, Team Axon, build and tune the detections in place of the customer's detection engineering. The platform automates investigation and response, and customers can buy Team Axon's threat hunting as an add-on. Founded in 2018, Hunters had raised $118 million by its January 2022 Series C, $68 million led by Stripes. Hunters said at the time it had 110 employees. Its named customers include Booking.com, Snowflake, Netgear, and Cimpress. Incumbent SIEM vendors and AI security operations startups could also ship automated investigation. Team Axon's managed detections and analyst service are what a rival would take longest to match.

Sourced Details

Description Hunters builds a SOC platform whose pre-built, always-on detections span UEBA, identity, endpoint, and cloud telemetry and are managed and tuned by its in-house Team Axon research group, so the customer needs no detection engineering of its own. [f1]
Founded 2018 [f2]
HQ Tel Aviv, Israel [f3]
Funding $118M total [f4]
Latest funding Series C, $68 million led by Stripes (January 2022) [f2]

Products

Product What it does
Hunters SOC Platform Next-gen SIEM with an open OCSF security data lake, always-on detections built and tuned by Team Axon, and AI-powered automated triage, investigation, and response.

Matrix Coverage

Cyber Defense Matrix

IdentifyProtectDetectRespondRecover
Devices Workstations, servers, phones, tablets, storage, network devices, IoT infrastructure, and similar hardware.
Applications Software, interactions, and application flows on the devices.
Networks Connections and traffic flowing among devices and apps, plus communication paths.
Data Content at rest, in transit, or in use across devices, apps, and networks.
Users The people using the devices, apps, networks, and data.

Pre-built detections and automated investigation earn detect across the endpoint, network, cloud, and identity telemetry the platform ingests, and the OCSF data lake earns identify for the data it standardizes and inventories. The platform is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f1]

Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

Emerging 23 /40 Emerging: Market readiness of 24 or below. Below the typical band, where few analyzed companies sit.
Dimension Score Rationale
Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. 3/5 Hunters names a specific buyer, the small SOC team, but the quantified pain is vendor-supplied, the 90 percent alert-reduction claim from Hunters and the $4.3 billion market size from the CEO in January 2022 press, with non-vendor sources corroborating only the qualitative SIEM-replacement thesis. [s1, s2, s6]
Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs and third-party validation. 3/5 The OCSF data lake, Team Axon detections, and automated triage are detailed on Hunters' own pages, but the cited press describes the platform rather than evaluating it, and the cited record supplies no public technical documentation, OSS, or independent technical evaluation as an external product validation point. [s2, s3, s6]
Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. 3/5 The agentic-AI enabler is credible but the recent buyer-side demand depends on Hunters' own June 2025 blog argument, and the named adoption dates to 2021 and 2022. [s2, s6, s9]
Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. 3/5 Co-founder and CEO Uri May leads a company that raised from top-tier and strategic investors and built a named in-house research group, Team Axon, but the public record shows no prior security exit and the founder backgrounds are not independently documented beyond press mentions. [s4, s6, s8]
GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. 4/5 Named reference customers include Booking.com, Snowflake, Netgear, and Cimpress, corroborated across the company blog and independent press, with Pennymac and Unzer giving on-record testimonials. [s6, s8]
Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. 2/5 Hunters raised $118 million through its January 2022 Series C, the most recent round in the cited record, with no disclosed current revenue, so a fundraise sized to an enterprise sales motion now sits well past a typical cycle with no follow-on in the cited record, and efficiency cannot be confirmed. [s6, s8]
Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. 3/5 Press places Hunters in the recognizable SIEM-replacement market, and Gartner Peer Insights lists Hunters SOC Platform under Security Information and Event Management, an independent taxonomy placement drawn from user reviews rather than an analyst evaluation, while the next-gen SIEM and AI SOC framing the company leads with is still forming and contested. [s1, s2, s6, s13]
Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. 2/5 Owning the data lake and the managed detection layer is a real position, but automated triage and investigation is a plausible near-term feature for incumbent SIEM platforms, the open OCSF lake lowers switching friction, and the detection content is reproducible, so bundling could absorb the differentiation. [s2, s3, s9]
Business Risks AI SOC startups and incumbent SIEM platforms could ship comparable automated investigation, narrowing Hunters' differentiation to the Team Axon service layer…
  • AI SOC startups and incumbent SIEM platforms could ship comparable automated investigation, narrowing Hunters' differentiation to the Team Axon service layer.
  • The cited record shows no funding since the January 2022 Series C. If an enterprise sales motion has outrun that capital without a follow-on or disclosed profitability, runway pressure could force a down round, a sale, or a retrenchment.
  • Hunters lets a customer bring their own security data lake instead of one Hunters manages, with all data standardized to OCSF, so a customer on that option could cancel the subscription and point a rival detection engine at the same data.
  • Team Axon delivers the managed detection and analyst value, so scaling the customer base without proportionally scaling that human team would either dilute the differentiation or compress margins.
  • The platform's named references date largely to the 2021 to 2022 growth period. If no recent named customers corroborate continued traction, the market-position claim weakens.
Problem & Market Hunters sells to security teams told to deliver a large SOC's outcomes with a small team's headcount. Its product messaging names the pain directly: drowning in noisy alerts and false positives, with lengthy manual investigations. The company frames the legacy SIEM it replaces as the source of that burden. The buyer is the under-resourced SecOps function rather than the well-staffed enterprise SOC. Hunters argues that detection engineering and investigation are exactly the work small teams cannot staff, and it offers to absorb both. Co-founder and CEO Uri May framed the opportunity in January 2022 press coverage as a SIEM market then worth $4.3 billion and ripe for disruption because incumbents leave customers to build their own detections. Independent press corroborates the positioning rather than the pain. SecurityWeek describes Hunters as a SOC platform meant to replace SIEM products, and the company points to named Fortune 500 customers as evidence that the approach works at scale, while the alert volumes and efficacy figures behind the pitch remain vendor-supplied…

Hunters sells to security teams told to deliver a large SOC's outcomes with a small team's headcount. Its product messaging names the pain directly: drowning in noisy alerts and false positives, with lengthy manual investigations. The company frames the legacy SIEM it replaces as the source of that burden.

The buyer is the under-resourced SecOps function rather than the well-staffed enterprise SOC. Hunters argues that detection engineering and investigation are exactly the work small teams cannot staff, and it offers to absorb both. Co-founder and CEO Uri May framed the opportunity in January 2022 press coverage as a SIEM market then worth $4.3 billion and ripe for disruption because incumbents leave customers to build their own detections.

Independent press corroborates the positioning rather than the pain. SecurityWeek describes Hunters as a SOC platform meant to replace SIEM products, and the company points to named Fortune 500 customers as evidence that the approach works at scale, while the alert volumes and efficacy figures behind the pitch remain vendor-supplied. [s1, s2, s6, s7]

Product Capabilities Hunters pairs a security data lake with a managed detection layer…

Hunters pairs a security data lake with a managed detection layer. The lake standardizes all data to the open OCSF schema, and the customer can bring one or let Hunters manage it, which the company positions as a hedge against vendor lock-in and runaway data costs.

The detection layer is the differentiator. Pre-built, always-on detections spanning UEBA, identity, endpoint, and cloud are built, managed, and tuned by Team Axon, the company's in-house research group, which Hunters says lets a customer skip the burden of detection engineering. On top of the detections, the platform runs automated scoring, correlation, and enrichment to triage and investigate alerts continuously.

The AI direction is explicit and dated. In June 2025 the company wrote that agentic AI represents a fundamental shift toward systems that build and execute investigation plans, draw conclusions, and initiate response, placing automated investigation at the center of the roadmap rather than at the edge. [s2, s3, s9]

Competitive Positioning Hunters fights on two fronts at once…

Hunters fights on two fronts at once. Below it sit the legacy SIEM incumbents it was built to replace, the platforms it argues leave customers to build their own detection and investigation. Above it now sit the AI SOC startups whose agents promise the same automated investigation Hunters offers, aimed at the same small teams.

Its entry point against both is the bundle of a data lake plus managed detection content. Hunters argues a small team gets working detections and investigation out of the box, without the engineering an incumbent SIEM demands, and its June 2025 blog casts rival AI offerings as co-pilots that summarize and answer prompts rather than investigate.

The same position carries the exposure. Automated triage and investigation is the feature every SIEM vendor and AI SOC entrant wants to ship, the open OCSF lake lowers the cost of switching away, and the detection content is reproducible. If a rival delivers a comparable loop, Hunters' differentiation narrows to the Team Axon service layer. [s2, s3, s9, s14]

Go-to-Market & Traction Hunters' named customer base is its strongest public proof…

Hunters' named customer base is its strongest public proof. Independent press and the company's own materials name Booking.com, Snowflake, Netgear, and Cimpress as customers, press separately reports Fortune 500 customers across financial services, media, retail, and manufacturing, and the product pages carry on-record testimonials from a Pennymac CISO and an Unzer security engineering manager.

Distribution rests on a strategic-investor network and an add-on service. Cisco Investments, Databricks, Snowflake Ventures, M12, and Okta all invested, several as strategic partners offering joint sales and marketing, and Team Axon is sold as a paid threat-hunting tier alongside the platform.

The traction signals carry a recency caveat. The most prominent named references and the latest funding event in the cited record both trace to the company's 2021 to 2022 growth period around the Series C, so continued momentum should be verified separately rather than assumed. [s6, s8, s10, s11, s13]

Team & Credibility Co-founder and CEO Uri May is the company's public face, quoted across funding coverage articulating the SIEM-disruption thesis. The company is the legal entity Cyber Hunters Ltd., listed on the ISO/IEC 27001 certificate at 82 Yigal Alon St., Tel Aviv. The team's clearest credibility signal is institutional rather than biographical. Hunters assembled a named in-house research group, Team Axon, that builds and tunes the platform's detections and staffs an on-demand analyst service, and it raised from a roster of top-tier and strategic investors including Bessemer, YL Ventures, Cisco, Databricks, Snowflake, and Okta. What the public record does not show is a prior security exit or independently documented founder pedigree beyond press mentions, which keeps the team signal solid rather than exceptional…

Co-founder and CEO Uri May is the company's public face, quoted across funding coverage articulating the SIEM-disruption thesis. The company is the legal entity Cyber Hunters Ltd., listed on the ISO/IEC 27001 certificate at 82 Yigal Alon St., Tel Aviv.

The team's clearest credibility signal is institutional rather than biographical. Hunters assembled a named in-house research group, Team Axon, that builds and tunes the platform's detections and staffs an on-demand analyst service, and it raised from a roster of top-tier and strategic investors including Bessemer, YL Ventures, Cisco, Databricks, Snowflake, and Okta.

What the public record does not show is a prior security exit or independently documented founder pedigree beyond press mentions, which keeps the team signal solid rather than exceptional. [s4, s5, s6, s8, s10, s12]

Trust Readiness Hunters' compliance posture meets enterprise procurement expectations…

Hunters' compliance posture meets enterprise procurement expectations. Its own compliance page reports a SOC 2 Type II report audited by Deloitte and an ISO/IEC 27001 certificate issued to Cyber Hunters Ltd., the legal entity behind the product.

The architecture reinforces the posture. Hunters offers a choice between a security data lake the customer brings and one Hunters manages, and OCSF standardization improves interoperability and may reduce schema or switching lock-in. The cited record documents commercial attestations, SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001, which clear the bar a security buyer sets for a vendor that ingests their telemetry. [s3, s5]

Competitors Panther, Splunk, Sumo Logic, Exabeam, Elastic, Dropzone AI…
Company Relationship Note Compare
Panther competes with Cloud-native SIEM peer built on a security data lake and vendor-supplied detection content, competing for the same buyer Hunters targets.
Splunk competes with Legacy SIEM incumbent Hunters positions against on cloud scale, cost, and detection-engineering burden. N/AWe scored these companies at different scopes, so the totals measure different things.
Sumo Logic competes with Cloud SIEM competitor for the same log-analytics and detection budget Hunters bids on. N/AWe scored these companies at different scopes, so the totals measure different things.
Exabeam competes with SIEM and analytics vendor competing for the same detection budget. N/AWe captured the evidence for these companies under different evidence-model versions (v1 vs v2), so the totals were scored under different conditions and are not directly comparable.
Elastic competes with Search-based SIEM alternative pursuing the same cloud-scale telemetry workloads. N/AWe scored these companies at different scopes, so the totals measure different things.
Dropzone AI competes with AI SOC analyst startup pursuing the same automated investigation for small teams that Hunters now markets.

Add analyzed competitors to compare them side by side with Hunters.

Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how defensible it is against market forces and examining the eight areas behind it.

Defensibility

Contested 13 /21 Contested: Defensibility of 13 to 14, the typical band, where a moat exists but is under pressure. reinforce or reposition

Hunters is hard to replace where the work is human and easy where it is software. Team Axon builds and tunes the detections and staffs an analyst service, judgment a rival cannot quickly staff. Once a customer runs those detections in a live SOC, replacing them means re-validating detection coverage elsewhere, friction in effort rather than documented lock-in. A customer that brings its own lake keeps data in its own cloud on an open, shared schema, portable to a rival's engine, while Hunters also offers a managed lake. The detection library is reproducible engineering, and the cited record documents no cross-customer corpus. The analyst service is hardest for a rival to copy, a head start rather than a settled lead, so watch whether Hunters deepens it as the software commoditizes.

Dimension Score Rationale
Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. 2/3 The platform ships software and a data lake, but the marketed value is detections built, managed, and tuned by Team Axon plus an on-demand analyst service that complements the customer's team, so code and human expertise blend rather than software standing alone.
Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. 2/3 Replacing detections running in a live SOC takes migration and re-validation effort, but the bring-your-own-lake option keeps the data in the customer's own cloud standardized to open OCSF, which caps the lock-in and leaves a departing customer holding their data.
Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. 1/3 SOC 2 Type II audited by Deloitte and ISO/IEC 27001 are commercial attestations, with no federal authorization or mandate in the cited record, so they do not block a determined replacement vendor.
Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. 3/3 Correlating petabyte-scale telemetry across endpoint, cloud, identity, and network into automated investigation, with detections continuously retuned against adversary behavior, requires years of specialized detection-engineering and data work rather than a rebuildable feature set.
Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. 2/3 The named base skews to large technology and consumer-internet companies such as Booking.com, Snowflake, Netgear, and Cimpress, a buyer type where procurement typically gates replacement, but governments and a regulated-mandate buyer are absent from the public record and the product targets small SOC teams.
Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. 2/3 Hunters is a platform with application features. Other security tools feed it telemetry and analysts work inside it, but no other application depends on Hunters to run.
Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. 1/3 The detection content is replicable engineering, a customer choosing the bring-your-own option keeps its security data in its own OCSF lake, and no named non-public cross-customer data asset appears in the record, which lands this level on replicable content with no documented proprietary corpus.
Strategic Market Segmentation Hunters targets the small SecOps team expected to deliver a large SOC's outcomes. The product messaging speaks to teams drowning in alerts and false positives, without the headcount to staff detection engineering or lengthy investigations, and positions the platform as the way they match bigger teams. The named reference base, however, is enterprise. Press names Booking, Snowflake, Netgear, and Cimpress as Fortune 500 customers across financial services, media, retail, and manufacturing, and product testimonials come from a Pennymac CISO and an Unzer security engineering manager. The buyer Hunters sells the platform to and the logos it shows are not the same size, which suggests the small-team framing is an entry point into larger accounts that run lean security functions…

Hunters targets the small SecOps team expected to deliver a large SOC's outcomes. The product messaging speaks to teams drowning in alerts and false positives, without the headcount to staff detection engineering or lengthy investigations, and positions the platform as the way they match bigger teams.

The named reference base, however, is enterprise. Press names Booking, Snowflake, Netgear, and Cimpress as Fortune 500 customers across financial services, media, retail, and manufacturing, and product testimonials come from a Pennymac CISO and an Unzer security engineering manager. The buyer Hunters sells the platform to and the logos it shows are not the same size, which suggests the small-team framing is an entry point into larger accounts that run lean security functions.

Product Capabilities & AI Advantages Hunters' differentiated claim is that it removes detection engineering rather than accelerating it. Pre-built, always-on detections across UEBA, identity, endpoint, and cloud are built, managed, and tuned by Team Axon, and automated investigation and correlation triage alerts continuously, so the customer consumes detection content rather than authoring it. The AI direction is dated and explicit. In June 2025 the company described agentic AI as systems that build and execute investigation plans, draw conclusions, and initiate response, placing automated investigation at the center of the roadmap. The cited record does not present the model layer as a moat: Hunters places its differentiation in the managed detection content and the analyst service it provides, not in model quality. The latent advantage Hunters has not yet evidenced is that Team Axon tunes detections and triages alerts across many customer estates at once, a vantage point that could yield cross-customer false-positive-reduction heuristics and detection-tuning benchmarks no single tenant could reach, though the record shows no sign Hunters has turned that shared signal into a durable edge today…

Hunters' differentiated claim is that it removes detection engineering rather than accelerating it. Pre-built, always-on detections across UEBA, identity, endpoint, and cloud are built, managed, and tuned by Team Axon, and automated investigation and correlation triage alerts continuously, so the customer consumes detection content rather than authoring it.

The AI direction is dated and explicit. In June 2025 the company described agentic AI as systems that build and execute investigation plans, draw conclusions, and initiate response, placing automated investigation at the center of the roadmap.

The cited record does not present the model layer as a moat: Hunters places its differentiation in the managed detection content and the analyst service it provides, not in model quality. The latent advantage Hunters has not yet evidenced is that Team Axon tunes detections and triages alerts across many customer estates at once, a vantage point that could yield cross-customer false-positive-reduction heuristics and detection-tuning benchmarks no single tenant could reach, though the record shows no sign Hunters has turned that shared signal into a durable edge today.

Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market Hunters runs a sales-assisted enterprise motion supported by a strategic-investor network. Cisco Investments, Databricks, Snowflake Ventures, M12, and Okta invested, several as strategic partners offering joint sales and marketing, which gives Hunters distribution into accounts those vendors already serve. Team Axon is sold as a paid add-on tier alongside the platform, a threat-hunting and rapid-response service that complements the customer's own team rather than replacing it as an MSSP would. That packaging makes the human layer a revenue line rather than a cost buried in the license. The traction is real but dated. The most prominent named references and the latest funding event in the cited record both trace to the 2021 to 2022 growth period around the Series C, so more recent traction should be verified separately…

Hunters runs a sales-assisted enterprise motion supported by a strategic-investor network. Cisco Investments, Databricks, Snowflake Ventures, M12, and Okta invested, several as strategic partners offering joint sales and marketing, which gives Hunters distribution into accounts those vendors already serve.

Team Axon is sold as a paid add-on tier alongside the platform, a threat-hunting and rapid-response service that complements the customer's own team rather than replacing it as an MSSP would. That packaging makes the human layer a revenue line rather than a cost buried in the license.

The traction is real but dated. The most prominent named references and the latest funding event in the cited record both trace to the 2021 to 2022 growth period around the Series C, so more recent traction should be verified separately.

Pricing Model Hunters publishes no list prices and routes buyers to a demo, which marks the sale as a negotiated enterprise deal. The visible pricing message is qualitative: a security data lake at a predictable cost, framed against the opaque and unpredictable costs the cited pages attribute to legacy SIEM tools. The pricing unit is not publicly disclosed, but the predictable-cost framing and the bring-your-own-lake option suggest Hunters separates the software license from the customer's own infrastructure spend. Team Axon is a separately purchased service tier on top, which means the managed human work the company leans on for differentiation is priced as an explicit upsell rather than bundled into a single platform fee…

Hunters publishes no list prices and routes buyers to a demo, which marks the sale as a negotiated enterprise deal. The visible pricing message is qualitative: a security data lake at a predictable cost, framed against the opaque and unpredictable costs the cited pages attribute to legacy SIEM tools.

The pricing unit is not publicly disclosed, but the predictable-cost framing and the bring-your-own-lake option suggest Hunters separates the software license from the customer's own infrastructure spend. Team Axon is a separately purchased service tier on top, which means the managed human work the company leans on for differentiation is priced as an explicit upsell rather than bundled into a single platform fee.

Product Delivery & Operations Hunters markets fast, low-touch deployment…

Hunters markets fast, low-touch deployment. The product pages promise SIEM deployment in days without professional services, and continuous detection tuning by Team Axon removes the ongoing detection-engineering upkeep an in-house SIEM demands.

The data architecture offers two shapes. A customer can bring their own security data lake or let Hunters manage it, with all data standardized to the open OCSF schema for interoperability across tools. The bring-your-own option keeps the security data in infrastructure the customer already owns and operates.

Earning Customers' Trust Hunters' compliance posture meets enterprise procurement expectations…

Hunters' compliance posture meets enterprise procurement expectations. Its trust page reports a SOC 2 Type II report audited by Deloitte and an ISO/IEC 27001 certificate issued to Cyber Hunters Ltd. in Tel Aviv, with the SOC 2 report available under NDA.

The architecture carries part of the trust story. The bring-your-own-lake option lets a customer keep security data in their own cloud, and OCSF standardization reduces the proprietary data custody a buyer must grant. These are commercial, table-stakes attestations rather than a federal authorization, but they clear the bar a security buyer sets for a vendor ingesting their telemetry.

Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning Hunters positions as a way to make existing tools more effective rather than a replacement for the whole stack. It ingests telemetry from across the security stack, including Azure and Google Cloud Platform, to correlate threats that would be missed in isolation. OCSF standardization is the ecosystem bet. By normalizing all data to an open schema, Hunters reduces connector friction and aligns with the wider industry move toward a shared security-data format. The platform remains an application that other tools feed rather than infrastructure other applications depend on, which caps how much platform leverage the ecosystem produces…

Hunters positions as a way to make existing tools more effective rather than a replacement for the whole stack. It ingests telemetry from across the security stack, including Azure and Google Cloud Platform, to correlate threats that would be missed in isolation.

OCSF standardization is the ecosystem bet. By normalizing all data to an open schema, Hunters reduces connector friction and aligns with the wider industry move toward a shared security-data format. The platform remains an application that other tools feed rather than infrastructure other applications depend on, which caps how much platform leverage the ecosystem produces.

Team & Execution Capability Co-founder and CEO Uri May is the company's public face, quoted across funding coverage articulating the SIEM-disruption thesis. The legal entity is Cyber Hunters Ltd., listed on the ISO/IEC 27001 certificate at 82 Yigal Alon St., Tel Aviv. The team signal is institutional. Hunters built a named in-house research group, Team Axon, that authors and tunes the platform's detections and staffs an on-demand analyst service, and it raised from a roster of top-tier and strategic investors including Bessemer, YL Ventures, Cisco, Databricks, Snowflake, and Okta. What the public record does not show is a prior security exit or independently documented founder pedigree beyond press mentions, which keeps the team signal solid rather than exceptional…

Co-founder and CEO Uri May is the company's public face, quoted across funding coverage articulating the SIEM-disruption thesis. The legal entity is Cyber Hunters Ltd., listed on the ISO/IEC 27001 certificate at 82 Yigal Alon St., Tel Aviv.

The team signal is institutional. Hunters built a named in-house research group, Team Axon, that authors and tunes the platform's detections and staffs an on-demand analyst service, and it raised from a roster of top-tier and strategic investors including Bessemer, YL Ventures, Cisco, Databricks, Snowflake, and Okta.

What the public record does not show is a prior security exit or independently documented founder pedigree beyond press mentions, which keeps the team signal solid rather than exceptional.

Sources

Company Detail Sources (4)
Id Source Tier Accessed
f1 Hunters SOC Platform product page official 2026-06-20
f2 SiliconANGLE: Security operations center startup Hunters raises $68M press 2026-06-20
f3 Hunters privacy, security, and compliance page official 2026-08-05
f4 SecurityWeek: Hunters Raises $68 Million for Its SecOps Platform press 2026-06-20
Profile Analysis Sources (14)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 Hunters homepage
“AI-Driven Next-Gen SIEM. Automated detection, investigation & response for small SecOps teams. Cyrus Tibbs, Chief Information Security Officer at Pennymac. Yeunkwan Kim, Security Engineering Manager at Unzer.”
official 2026-06-20
s2 Hunters SOC Platform product page
“Eliminate Detection Engineering. Skip the burden of detection engineering and reduce excessive alerting by 90%. Hunters provides built-in detections that are continuously tested and refined by Team Axon. Deploy In Days And Ditch The Upkeep.”
official 2026-06-20
s3 Hunters product page, security data lake section
“Build A Security Data Lake At A Predictable Cost. Bring your own or let Hunters manage it for you. With all data standardized to OCSF.”
official 2026-06-20
s4 Team Axon service page
“Your resident threat hunters. Is Team Axon an MSSP? No. It is an additional service that can be purchased with Hunters SOC Platform to complement your existing team with added threat hunting expertise.”
official 2026-06-20
s5 Hunters privacy, security, and compliance page
“SOC 2 Type II Compliance. An audit by Deloitte certifies that Hunters is compliant. Compliance with ISO/IEC 27001:2013. Information Security Management System of Cyber Hunters Ltd. 82, Yigal Alon St., Tel Aviv, Israel.”
official 2026-06-20
s6 SiliconANGLE: Security operations center startup Hunters raises $68M
“Stripes led the Series C round. Founded in 2018, Hunters has raised $118 million to date. Customers include Booking Holding Inc., Snowflake Inc., Netgear Inc. and Cimpress plc. The SIEM market is worth $4.3 billion and is ripe for disruption, Uri May, co-founder and chief executive of Hunters, said.”
press 2026-06-20
s7 SecurityWeek: Hunters Raises $68 Million for Its SecOps Platform
“Hunters emerged from stealth mode in 2019 and it has developed a SOC platform that is meant to replace security information and event management (SIEM) products. The company says it currently has 110 employees. the company says it has shifted away from XDR to a cloud SOC platform.”
press 2026-06-20
s8 Hunters blog: Announcing Our Series C and What Comes Next
“We have a distinct window of opportunity now. Security leaders are making decisions about which approach will be best for their changing needs. Observing enterprises like Booking.com, Snowflake, Netgear, and Cimpress leverage Hunters' SOC Platform has demonstrated the success of our approach.”
official 2026-06-20
s9 Hunters blog: Agentic AI in SOC (June 12, 2025)
“Agentic AI represents a fundamental shift. AI that operates with autonomy, builds and executes investigation plans, draws conclusions, and initiates response.”
official 2026-06-20
s10 TechCrunch: Hunters raises $15M Series A for its threat-hunting platform
“raised a $15 million Series A funding round from Microsoft's M12 and U.S. Venture Partners. With this, Hunters has now raised a total of $20.4 million.”
press 2026-06-30
s11 CTech: Hunters raises $68 million Series C, taking funding to nearly $100 million in five months
“The new funding brings the total investment in Hunters to $118 million. Global enterprises, including leading Fortune 500 companies in financial services, media, retail, and manufacturing use Hunters' SOC platform, replacing their SIEM.”
press 2026-06-30
s12 UK Companies House: CYBER HUNTERS UK LTD overview
“CYBER HUNTERS UK LTD. Company number 14489890. Company status Active. Company type Private limited Company. Incorporated on 17 November 2022. Registered office address 1-2 Charterhouse Mews, London, England, EC1M 6BB.”
regulatory 2026-06-30
s13 Gartner Peer Insights: Hunters SOC Platform, 4.4 stars across 41 ratings
“Hunters SOC Platform is a software designed to assist security operations teams in detecting, investigating, and responding to cyber threats. The software automates the process of threat detection by integrating data from various sources, such as endpoint, cloud, and network environments.”
research 2026-07-22
s14 CB Insights company profile: Hunters
“Competitors of Hunters include Dream Security, Upwind, AiStrike, Sekoia.io, ReliaQuest and 7 more.”
research 2026-07-22
Deep-Dive Sources (12)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 Hunters homepage
“AI-Driven Next-Gen SIEM. Automated detection, investigation & response for small SecOps teams. Cyrus Tibbs, Chief Information Security Officer at Pennymac. Yeunkwan Kim, Security Engineering Manager at Unzer.”
official 2026-06-20
s2 Hunters SOC Platform product page
“Pre-built, Always-On Detections. UEBA, Identity, Endpoint, Cloud. Built, managed and tuned by Team Axon. No detection engineering necessary.”
official 2026-06-20
s3 Hunters product page, security data lake section
“Build A Security Data Lake At A Predictable Cost. Bring your own or let Hunters manage it for you. With all data standardized to OCSF, you'll benefit from enhanced interoperability across tools.”
official 2026-06-20
s4 Team Axon service page
“Is Team Axon an MSSP? No, Team Axon is not an MSSP. It is an additional service that can be purchased with Hunters SOC Platform to complement your existing team with added threat hunting expertise.”
official 2026-06-20
s5 Hunters privacy, security, and compliance page
“SOC 2 Type II Compliance. An audit by Deloitte certifies that Hunters is compliant (SOC 2 Type II). Compliance with ISO/IEC 27001:2013. Information Security Management System of Cyber Hunters Ltd. 82, Yigal Alon St., Tel Aviv, Israel.”
official 2026-06-20
s6 SiliconANGLE: Security operations center startup Hunters raises $68M
“Including the new funding, Hunters has raised $118 million to date. Customers include leading Fortune 500 companies in financial services, media, retail and manufacturing, including Booking Holding Inc., Snowflake Inc., Netgear Inc. and Cimpress plc.”
press 2026-06-20
s7 SecurityWeek: Hunters Raises $68 Million for Its SecOps Platform
“The company says it currently has 110 employees around the world. headline and first paragraph updated, the company says it has shifted away from XDR to a cloud SOC platform.”
press 2026-06-20
s8 Hunters blog: Announcing Our Series C and What Comes Next
“We are grateful to all of our investors: Stripes, YL Ventures, DTCP, Cisco Investments, Bessemer Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Microsoft's venture fund M12, Blumberg Capital, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks, and Okta.”
official 2026-06-20
s9 Hunters blog: Agentic AI in SOC (June 12, 2025)
“Agentic AI represents a fundamental shift. AI that operates with autonomy, builds and executes investigation plans, draws conclusions, and initiates response.”
official 2026-06-20
s10 TechCrunch: Hunters raises $15M Series A for its threat-hunting platform
“raised a $15 million Series A funding round from Microsoft's M12 and U.S. Venture Partners. With this, Hunters has now raised a total of $20.4 million.”
press 2026-06-30
s11 CTech: Hunters raises $68 million Series C, taking funding to nearly $100 million in five months
“The new funding brings the total investment in Hunters to $118 million. Global enterprises, including leading Fortune 500 companies in financial services, media, retail, and manufacturing use Hunters' SOC platform, replacing their SIEM.”
press 2026-06-30
s12 UK Companies House: CYBER HUNTERS UK LTD overview
“CYBER HUNTERS UK LTD. Company number 14489890. Company status Active. Company type Private limited Company. Incorporated on 17 November 2022. Registered office address 1-2 Charterhouse Mews, London, England, EC1M 6BB.”
regulatory 2026-06-30

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