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Hunters built a next-gen SIEM around a service it does not name like one. Its Team Axon group writes, manages, and tunes the detections so a small security team skips detection engineering, and a paid analyst tier answers investigations on demand. That managed work, not the data lake, is what a thin SOC actually buys. The exposure is timing and money. Hunters raised $118 million in a January 2022 Series C, its latest round in the cited record, while the platform it built to replace legacy SIEM is now what AI SOC startups want to replace in turn. Snowflake, Netgear, and Cimpress are named references, and SOC 2 and ISO 27001 clear procurement. Four years from its last raise, Hunters now has to outspend better-funded rivals as the category reprices around AI investigation.
| Description | Tel Aviv company whose SOC platform replaces a traditional SIEM with an open security data lake, pre-built detections managed by its Team Axon research group, and automated triage, investigation, and response aimed at small security operations teams. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | [f2] |
| HQ | Tel Aviv, Israel | [f3] |
| Funding | $118M total | [f3] |
| Latest funding | Series C, $68 million led by Stripes (January 2022) | [f2] |
| 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. |
Cyber Defense Matrix
| Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. [f4]
How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.
| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs, demos, and third-party validation. | 3/5 |
| Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. | 3/5 |
| Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. | 3/5 |
| GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. | 4/5 |
| Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. | 2/5 |
| Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. | 3/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. | 2/5 |
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| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. | 2/3 |
| Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. | 2/3 |
| Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. | 2/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. | 1/3 |
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| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | Hunters homepage | official | 2026-06-20 |
| f2 | SiliconANGLE: Security operations center startup Hunters raises $68M | press | 2026-06-20 |
| f3 | SecurityWeek: Hunters Raises $68 Million for Its SecOps Platform | press | 2026-06-20 |
| f4 | Hunters SOC Platform product page | official | 2026-06-20 |
| 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 6, 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 |
| 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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