Cybersecurity startup Mate launched publicly on Monday after securing $15.5 million in Seed funding, led by Team8 and Insight Partners.
Mate uses advanced reasoning models and autonomous agents to help Security Operations Centers work more efficiently. Its platform connects directly to existing security tools—like SIEMs, EDRs, and email security systems—and starts learning an organization’s security patterns in real time.
Mate uses a combination of LLMs, reasoning models, and AI agents to automatically investigate security alerts. It can connect different pieces of evidence and solve simple issues without human help.
For more complex problems, Mate passes the case to human analysts along with extra context and details. This helps analysts understand the situation more quickly and clearly.
Mate was founded in early 2025 by a team with strong experience in cybersecurity and building large tech products. The founders have spent years working in major security teams and developing tools used by many organizations.
Asaf Wiener, who previously held product roles at Wiz and Microsoft, is the first Wiz alumnus to start his own company. He teamed up with Oren Saban, former head of product for Microsoft Defender XDR and Security Copilot, and Guy Pergal, who worked in Microsoft’s threat intelligence center (MSTIC) and later led engineering at Axonius.
“The old approach of configuring and maintaining endless playbooks doesn’t scale,” said Wiener, CEO and co-founder. “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.”
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