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Mate Security sells AI agents that investigate and respond to security alerts using a knowledge graph the platform builds from each customer’s tools, logs, and procedures. Security product leaders from Wiz, Microsoft, and Axonius founded the company in Tel Aviv in early 2025 and raised $15.5 million from Team8 and Insight Partners. Security chiefs at Lead Bank, Bridgewater Associates, Merlin Entertainments, and AlphaSense endorse the product by name on its site. Mate promises onboarding in hours, a speed that cuts both ways since the graph forms from the customer's own data, so what compounds is the investigation history the graph accumulates in use. One founder led Microsoft Defender XDR and Security Copilot, incumbent products that could bundle this capability.
| Description | AI SOC company whose platform builds a security context graph from each customer's tools, logs, and procedures, and runs AI agents that build detections and carry out triage, investigation, and response across the customer's existing security stack. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2025 | [f2] |
| HQ | Tel Aviv, Israel | [f2] |
| Funding | $15.5M total | [f2] |
| Latest funding | Seed, $15.5M (November 2025) | [f2] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Mate | Agentic SOC platform whose AI agents use a per-organization security context graph to triage, investigate, and respond to alerts and to build detections. |
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. |
Mate's agents triage, investigate, and respond to alerts that a customer's existing detection stack raises across endpoints, networks, identities, and data stores. The company applies AI to defend conventional assets and is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f1]
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. | 4/5 |
| 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. | 3/5 |
| 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. | 3/5 |
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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. | 1/3 |
| 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. | 2/3 |
| Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. | 3/3 |
| 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 | Mate Security homepage | official | 2026-06-11 |
| f2 | SecurityWeek on the Mate Security seed round | press | 2026-06-11 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Mate Security homepage “When Mate integrates, it builds a context graph within 24 hours. This is your unique, organizational "brain". Agents use the graph as their knowledge source for investigating, responding, and building detections.” | official | 2026-07-02 |
| s2 | Mate Security about page “People will always be at the center of the SOC. We believe AI should handle the grunt work so humans can make the decisions that matter.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s3 | Mate Security newsroom | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s4 | SecurityWeek on the Mate Security seed round “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.” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s5 | Dark Reading on the Mate launch “Oren Saban, Mate's CPO and former head of product for Microsoft Defender XDR and Security Copilot; and Guy Pergal, Mate's CTO and a veteran of Microsoft's threat intelligence center (MSTIC) and a former engineering leader at Axonius.” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s6 | CrowdStrike press release on the 2026 Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator “CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA Select 35 Startups for the 2026 Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s7 | Mate Security AWS Marketplace announcement “We’re thrilled to share that Mate Security is now officially listed on AWS Marketplace” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s8 | Mate Security AWS Marketplace listing “AWS Marketplace: Mate Security” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s9 | Mate Security blog on the Security Context Graph “We called this new architecture the Security Context Graph” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s10 | Mate Security CD/CR framework blog post | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s11 | Mate Security accelerator announcement “TEL AVIV, Israel – January 5, 2026 – Mate Security, a company elevating security operations centers (SOCs) with wisdom-powered AI agents, today announced it has been selected to participate in the 2026 Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator with CrowdStrike, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s12 | Mate Security trust center “ISO 27001 Certificate of Registration” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s13 | Mate Security: Mate's Guide to Investigating the Axios Supply Chain Attack “A threat actor compromised the npm distribution of Axios, a widely used JavaScript HTTP client, and published malicious versions that functioned as a dropper, executing a staged payload sequence upon installation.” | official | 2026-07-02 |
| s14 | Mate Security blog index “npm Chalk & Debug Packages Compromised: How to Check If You're Impacted” | official | 2026-07-02 |
| s15 | Mate Security homepage testimonial wall “Chief Information Security Officer, Lead Bank ... Chief Information Security Officer, Bridgewater Associates ... Chief Information Security Officer, Merlin Entertainments ... Chief Information Security Officer, Alphasense ... Chief Technology Officer, Water-IT” | official | 2026-07-02 |
| s16 | Mate Security homepage industry coverage section “Latio logo ... Security Operations Market Report ... June 2026 ... Gartner logo ... Innovation Insight: AI SOC Agents ... October 2025” | official | 2026-07-02 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Mate Security homepage “When Mate integrates, it builds a context graph within 24 hours. This is your unique, organizational "brain". Agents use the graph as their knowledge source for investigating, responding, and building detections.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s2 | Mate Security about page “People will always be at the center of the SOC. We believe AI should handle the grunt work so humans can make the decisions that matter.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s3 | Mate Security newsroom | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s4 | SecurityWeek on the Mate Security seed round “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.” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s5 | Dark Reading on the Mate launch “Oren Saban, Mate's CPO and former head of product for Microsoft Defender XDR and Security Copilot; and Guy Pergal, Mate's CTO and a veteran of Microsoft's threat intelligence center (MSTIC) and a former engineering leader at Axonius.” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s6 | CrowdStrike press release on the 2026 Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator “CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA Select 35 Startups for the 2026 Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s7 | Mate Security AWS Marketplace announcement “Private Pricing Agreements (PPA) commitment drawdown that allows software purchases to count toward AWS spending commitments.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s8 | Mate Security AWS Marketplace listing “Mate Enterprise Tier ... The usage tier level in Mate Platform. For private offer please contact us: sales@mate.security. ... $150,000.00” | official | 2026-06-15 |
| s19 | Mate Security AWS Marketplace listing deployment options “Deploy your way: SaaS, bring your own cloud (BYOC), or bring your own model (BYOM) for total control and data sovereignty.” | official | 2026-06-15 |
| s9 | Mate Security blog on the Security Context Graph “This decision logic, the context, lives outside texts, it resides in the memory of experienced analysts.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s10 | Mate Security CD/CR framework blog post | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s11 | Mate Security accelerator announcement “TEL AVIV, Israel – January 5, 2026 – Mate Security, a company elevating security operations centers (SOCs) with wisdom-powered AI agents, today announced it has been selected to participate in the 2026 Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator with CrowdStrike, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s12 | Mate Security trust center “ISO 27001 Certificate of Registration” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s13 | Mate Security homepage Lead Bank testimonial “Gavin Grisamore Chief Information Security Officer, Lead Bank” | official | 2026-06-13 |
| s14 | Mate Security homepage Bridgewater Associates testimonial “Anthony Candeias Chief Information Security Officer, Bridgewater Associates” | official | 2026-06-13 |
| s15 | Mate Security homepage Merlin Entertainments testimonial “Matthew Wilmot Chief Information Security Officer, Merlin Entertainments” | official | 2026-06-13 |
| s16 | Mate Security homepage AlphaSense testimonial “Pieter VanIperen Chief Information Security Officer, Alphasense” | official | 2026-06-13 |
| s17 | Mate Security about page founders “Our founders led the creation of world-leading cyber security products at Wiz, Microsoft, Axonius and Apex” | official | 2026-06-13 |
| s18 | Insight Partners on the Mate launch with founding year and founder roles “Founded in early 2025, Mate is led by Asaf Wiener... He is joined by Oren Saban, former head of product for Microsoft Defender XDR and Security Copilot, and Guy Pergal, a veteran of Microsoft's threat intelligence center (MSTIC) and former engineering leader at Axonius.” | press | 2026-06-13 |
| s20 | Mate Security: Mate's Guide to Investigating the Axios Supply Chain Attack “A real-world walkthrough of an Axios supply chain attack, showing how Mate's AI agents detected, investigated, and contained threats in a CI/CD environment before impact.” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s21 | Probe for API reference, SLA, and data-residency policy across mate.security pages, trust center, and AWS Marketplace listing, curl static HTML, 2026-07-02 | official | 2026-07-02 |
| s22 | Mate Security homepage (2026-07-02 fetch, connects-list text and context-graph diagram alt) “It connects to everything analysts use, from legacy systems to scripts, portals, and Excel. Diagram alt: "six vertical panels labeled SIEM LOGS, SOPS, MESSAGING APP, CMDB"” | official | 2026-07-02 |
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