# Cyber Company Profiles: Prophet Security

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## At a Glance

- Website: [prophetsecurity.ai](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/prophet-security
- Type: Security Operations, Detection Response
- Also known as: Prophet Security, Inc.
- Market readiness: Established (28/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (13/21)
- Founded: 2024
- Last updated: 2026-07-11

## Executive Summary

Prophet Security sells AI agents that triage, investigate, and respond to security alerts across a customer's endpoint, identity, cloud, and SIEM tools, writing conclusions analysts can audit. The non-obvious signal is who backs the company: Amex Ventures and Citi Ventures, the venture arms of two banks, invested in early 2026, plausibly improving credibility with regulated buyers. Kamal Shah and Vibhav Sreekanti, who ran StackRox before Red Hat acquired it, founded it in 2024. Nine reviews on Gartner Peer Insights are a product-specific third-party signal, and independent research backs the SOC capacity problem. The public record shows no proprietary model substrate, as Prophet runs on third-party frontier models, so encoded analyst technique rather than its own dataset is the edge.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Agentic AI SOC company whose Prophet AI SOC Analyst autonomously triages, investigates, and responds to security alerts across a team's existing endpoint, identity, cloud, email, and SIEM tools, emulating how an expert human analyst retrieves and correlates evidence. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2024 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Palo Alto, CA, US | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Strategic round, Amex Ventures and Citi Ventures (February 2026, undisclosed), joining Accel and Bain Capital | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prophet AI SOC Analyst | Agentic AI analyst that autonomously triages, investigates, and responds to alerts by retrieving and correlating evidence across the customer's security stack, with human-in-the-loop checkpoints. |
| Prophet AI Threat Hunter | Agent that runs proactive threat hunts by generating hypotheses and identifying leads across connected telemetry rather than waiting on alerts. |
| Prophet AI Detection Advisor | Agent that analyzes telemetry to recommend detection-quality improvements aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [Cyber Defense Matrix](https://cyberdefensematrix.com) [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devices |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |
| Networks |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |
| Data |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |
| Users |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |

The Prophet AI SOC Analyst triages, investigates, and responds to alerts raised across a customer's endpoint, identity, cloud, email, and SIEM tools. Prophet applies AI to defend conventional assets and is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

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

**Established (28/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-02. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 4/5 |
| Capability Depth | 3/5 |
| Market Timing | 4/5 |
| Team Credibility | 4/5 |
| GTM Proof | 4/5 |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 |

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## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Contested (13/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-07-11. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 |
| Layer | 2/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 |

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## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Prophet Security homepage](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/) | official | 2026-06-20 |
| f2 | [Bain Capital Ventures portfolio page for Prophet Security (Seed, 2024)](https://www.baincapitalventures.com/portfolio/prophet-security/) | press | 2026-06-20 |
| f3 | [PR Newswire: Prophet Security strategic investments from Amex Ventures and Citi Ventures](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/prophet-security-accelerates-the-agentic-ai-soc-movement-with-strategic-investments-from-amex-ventures-and-citi-ventures-302696588.html) | press | 2026-06-20 |
| f4 | [FinSMEs: Prophet Security Raises Strategic Funding Round](https://www.finsmes.com/2026/02/prophet-security-raises-strategic-funding-round.html) | press | 2026-06-20 |
| f5 | [Citi Ventures: Investing in Prophet Security to empower cybersecurity teams](https://www.citi.com/ventures/perspectives/pressrelease/investing-in-prophet-security-cybersecurity-SOC.html) | press | 2026-06-20 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

The sources the full Market Readiness analysis cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Prophet Security homepage](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/) “AI SOC Agents Built to Outwork Modern Attackers. 10x increase in SOC Throughput. Prophet AI cut our alert queue from thousands to dozens.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s2 | [Prophet Security platform page](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/platform) “It delivers the efficiency of a team 5x our size, eliminating backlogs. Steve Lukose, CISO, Clari. Prophet AI enriches alerts with the contextual data we need in minutes. Ashish Patel, Head of Security, Zip. 75% faster triage and investigation.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s3 | [Prophet Security integrations page](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/integrations) “Integrations That Simply Work. CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint COMING SOON! Okta Identity COMING SOON! Splunk SIEM COMING SOON! Google Security Operations (Chronicle) SIEM COMING SOON! ServiceNow Case Management COMING SOON! Proofpoint Email COMING SOON! Slack Collaboration COMING SOON!” | official | 2026-07-02 |
| s4 | [About Prophet Security](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/about-us) “Prophet Security is building an AI SOC platform that empowers teams to move faster and make better decisions. It brings reasoning, context, and consistency to every alert and scales with the needs of the mission.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s5 | [VentureBeat: Prophet Security raises 30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders](https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai-vs-ai-prophet-security-raises-30m-to-replace-human-analysts-with-autonomous-defenders/) “Prophet Security, a startup developing autonomous artificial intelligence systems for cybersecurity defense, announced Tuesday it has raised 30 million in Series A funding to accelerate what its founders describe as a fundamental shift from human-versus-human to agent-versus-agent warfare.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s6 | [Prophet Security Series A blog (July 29, 2025)](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/blog/prophet-security-raises-30-million-series-a-led-by-accel) “Prophet Security has raised a 30 million Series A, led by Accel, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures and other strategic investors. Eric Wolford, Partner at Accel: they are delivering autonomy and speed while showing their work, a critical differentiator in an industry that runs on trust.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s7 | [Citi Ventures: Investing in Prophet Security](https://www.citi.com/ventures/perspectives/pressrelease/investing-in-prophet-security-cybersecurity-SOC.html) “Kamal Shah and Vibhav Sreekanti worked at StackRox, acquired by Red Hat, where Shah was CEO and Sreekanti was VP of Engineering. Customers include Compass Real Estate, Instacart and Udemy. Integrates directly into analysts' security stack, including Splunk, Proofpoint, Okta, ServiceNow and Slack.” | press | 2026-07-02 |
| s8 | [PR Newswire: Prophet Security strategic investments from Amex Ventures and Citi Ventures (Feb 25, 2026)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/prophet-security-accelerates-the-agentic-ai-soc-movement-with-strategic-investments-from-amex-ventures-and-citi-ventures-302696588.html) “Fortune 500 companies and enterprises across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, high tech, and media are using Prophet AI: 0 mins alert dwell time, 4 mins mean time to respond, 98.5% fewer false positives, and 10x increase in team productivity.” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s9 | [Pulse 2.0: Prophet Security 30 Million Series A](https://pulse2.com/prophet-security-30-million-series-a-raised-for-agentic-ai-for-security-operations-centers/) “In the last six months, the Prophet AI SOC Analyst has conducted over 1 million investigations, saving 360,000 hours and achieving ten times faster response times with 96% fewer false positives. Prophet AI Detection Advisor: Improves detection quality aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s10 | [Bain Capital Ventures portfolio: Prophet Security (Seed, 2024)](https://www.baincapitalventures.com/portfolio/prophet-security/) “Prophet Security. Empowering cybersecurity analysts with generative AI, cutting mean time to threat response by 10x. Seed 2024. Enrique Salem. Rak Garg.” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s11 | [FinSMEs: Prophet Security Raises Strategic Funding Round](https://www.finsmes.com/2026/02/prophet-security-raises-strategic-funding-round.html) “Prophet Security, a Palo Alto, CA-based developer of an agentic AI platform for Security Operations Centers (SOC), raised a strategic funding round of undisclosed amount. Backers included Amex Ventures, Citi Ventures, Accel and Bain Capital Ventures. The platform is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant.” | press | 2026-07-02 |
| s12 | [Cabinetworks case study](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/case-studies/cabinetworks-revolutionizing-soc-efficiency-with-prophet-ai) “Cabinetworks: Revolutionizing SOC Efficiency with Prophet AI. Saved over 1,250 hours of investigation toil in the first 5 months.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s13 | [Accel: Our Investment in Prophet Security (Aug 6, 2025)](https://www.accel.com/noteworthies/our-investment-in-prophet-security-operations-at-the-speed-of-ai) “Prophet Security's approach to security operations represents a much-needed leap forward for the industry, which is why we've led the company's Series A. Prophet's platform uses AI agents to automate the entire threat investigation and resolution process.” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s14 | [Dropzone AI homepage (competitor reference)](https://www.dropzone.ai/) | other | 2026-06-20 |
| s15 | [7AI homepage (competitor reference)](https://7ai.com/) | other | 2026-06-20 |
| s16 | [Prophet Security Trust Center](https://trust.prophetsecurity.ai) “Compliance: SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA. Resources include certificates and a penetration test.” | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s17 | [Gartner Peer Insights: Prophet AI reviews and ratings](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/product/prophet-ai) “Prophet AI by Prophet Security in IT Security. Prophet AI Reviews and Ratings 4.9 (9 Ratings). Rating Distribution 5 Star 89% 4 Star 11%. Read All 9 Reviews. Read unlimited Gartner-vetted product reviews. Year Founded 2024.” | other | 2026-06-29 |
| s18 | [OpenCorporates: PROPHET SECURITY, INC. (Delaware), with California branch](https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/7645020) “PROPHET SECURITY, INC. Company Number 7645020. Company Type Domestic Corporation. Jurisdiction Delaware (US). Agent Name RESIDENT AGENTS INC. branch PROPHET SECURITY, INC. (California (US)).” | regulatory | 2026-06-29 |
| s19 | [MSSP Alert: AI agents make inroads into SOCs (quotes Prophet's Jon Hencinski)](https://www.msspalert.com/news/securonix-parnters-with-aws-on-agentic-ai-in-socs-for-enterprises-mssps) “Growing numbers of security vendors are offering AI-powered SOCs. A 2025 study by the Cloud Security Alliance backed up the AI push with numbers, noting that AI-assisted SOC analysts completed investigations 45% to 61% faster than human analysts and did so with 22% to 29% higher accuracy.” | press | 2026-06-29 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

The sources the full Strategy Deep Dive cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Prophet Security homepage](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/) “AI SOC Agents Built to Outwork Modern Attackers. 10x increase in SOC Throughput. Prophet AI cut our alert queue from thousands to dozens. enabling rapid resolution with both autonomous remediation for high-confidence threats and human-in-the-loop decision points for complex cases.” | official | 2026-07-11 |
| s2 | [Prophet Security platform page](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/platform) “Prophet AI scales our security operations by delivering the depth, quality, and consistency of a human investigation across 100% of our alert volume. Prophet AI delivers the efficiency of a team 5x our size. Steve Lukose, CISO, Clari.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s3 | [Prophet Security integrations page](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/integrations) “Integrations That Simply Work. CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint COMING SOON! Okta Identity COMING SOON! Splunk SIEM COMING SOON! Google Security Operations (Chronicle) SIEM COMING SOON! ServiceNow Case Management COMING SOON! Proofpoint Email COMING SOON! Slack Collaboration COMING SOON!” | official | 2026-07-02 |
| s4 | [About Prophet Security](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/about-us) “Prophet Security is building an AI SOC platform that empowers teams to move faster and make better decisions. It brings reasoning, context, and consistency to every alert.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s5 | [VentureBeat: Prophet Security raises 30M](https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai-vs-ai-prophet-security-raises-30m-to-replace-human-analysts-with-autonomous-defenders/) “Prophet Security, a startup developing autonomous artificial intelligence systems for cybersecurity defense, announced it has raised 30 million in Series A funding to accelerate a shift from human-versus-human to agent-versus-agent warfare.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s6 | [Prophet Security Series A blog (July 29, 2025)](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/blog/prophet-security-raises-30-million-series-a-led-by-accel) “Eric Wolford, Partner at Accel: What stood out to us about Prophet wasn't just the technical ambition, but the real-world traction: they're delivering autonomy and speed while showing their work, a critical differentiator in an industry that runs on trust.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s7 | [Citi Ventures: Investing in Prophet Security](https://www.citi.com/ventures/perspectives/pressrelease/investing-in-prophet-security-cybersecurity-SOC.html) “Co-founder and CEO Kamal Shah and co-founder and CTO Vibhav Sreekanti previously worked together at StackRox, a cloud-native security company acquired by Red Hat, where Shah was CEO and Sreekanti was VP of Engineering. Customers include Compass Real Estate, Instacart and Udemy.” | press | 2026-07-02 |
| s8 | [PR Newswire: Prophet Security strategic investments from Amex Ventures and Citi Ventures (Feb 25, 2026)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/prophet-security-accelerates-the-agentic-ai-soc-movement-with-strategic-investments-from-amex-ventures-and-citi-ventures-302696588.html) “Strategic investments from Amex Ventures and Citi Ventures: 0 mins alert dwell time, 4 mins mean time to respond, 98.5% fewer false positives, and 10x increase in team productivity. Kevin Weber, Managing Director, Amex Ventures.” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s9 | [Pulse 2.0: Prophet Security 30 Million Series A](https://pulse2.com/prophet-security-30-million-series-a-raised-for-agentic-ai-for-security-operations-centers/) “In the last six months, the Prophet AI SOC Analyst has conducted over 1 million investigations, saving 360,000 hours with 96% fewer false positives. Prophet AI Detection Advisor improves detection quality aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s10 | [Citi Ventures on Prophet (frontier models and integrations)](https://www.citi.com/ventures/perspectives/pressrelease/investing-in-prophet-security-cybersecurity-SOC.html) “By leveraging the power of advanced Large Language Models like GPT, Gemini and Anthropic, Prophet's AI works alongside human analysts. Delivered as a seamless SaaS application that integrates directly into analysts' security stack, including Splunk, Proofpoint, Okta, ServiceNow and Slack.” | press | 2026-07-02 |
| s11 | [FinSMEs: Prophet Security Raises Strategic Funding Round](https://www.finsmes.com/2026/02/prophet-security-raises-strategic-funding-round.html) “Backers included Amex Ventures, Citi Ventures, Accel and Bain Capital Ventures. The platform emulates expert human analysts by retrieving and correlating data across a firm's security stack including cloud, endpoint, and identity sources. The platform is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant.” | press | 2026-07-02 |
| s12 | [Cabinetworks case study](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/case-studies/cabinetworks-revolutionizing-soc-efficiency-with-prophet-ai) “Cabinetworks: Revolutionizing SOC Efficiency with Prophet AI. Saved over 1,250 hours of investigation toil in the first 5 months.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s13 | [Bain Capital Ventures portfolio: Prophet Security (Seed, 2024)](https://www.baincapitalventures.com/portfolio/prophet-security/) “Prophet Security. Empowering cybersecurity analysts with generative AI, cutting mean time to threat response by 10x. Seed 2024. Enrique Salem. Rak Garg.” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s14 | [Prophet Security Trust Center](https://trust.prophetsecurity.ai) “Compliance: SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA. Resources include certificates and a penetration test.” | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s15 | [Gartner Peer Insights: Prophet AI reviews and ratings](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/product/prophet-ai) “Prophet AI by Prophet Security in IT Security. Reviews and Ratings 4.9 (9 Ratings). Read All 9 Reviews. Read unlimited Gartner-vetted product reviews. DIRECTOR, IT SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT, 1B-10B USD, Software. Year Founded 2024.” | other | 2026-06-29 |
| s16 | [OpenCorporates: PROPHET SECURITY, INC. (Delaware), with California branch](https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/7645020) “PROPHET SECURITY, INC. Company Number 7645020. Company Type Domestic Corporation. Jurisdiction Delaware (US). Agent Name RESIDENT AGENTS INC. branch PROPHET SECURITY, INC. (California (US)).” | regulatory | 2026-06-29 |
| s17 | [MSSP Alert: AI agents make inroads into SOCs (quotes Prophet's Jon Hencinski)](https://www.msspalert.com/news/securonix-parnters-with-aws-on-agentic-ai-in-socs-for-enterprises-mssps) “Growing numbers of security vendors are offering AI-powered SOCs. A 2025 study by the Cloud Security Alliance backed up the AI push with numbers, noting that AI-assisted SOC analysts completed investigations 45% to 61% faster than human analysts and did so with 22% to 29% higher accuracy.” | press | 2026-06-29 |

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