Funding led by Blumberg Capital to accelerate the shift to AI-native, preemptive cyber defense operations
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#ArtificialIntelligence--The era of purely reactive security operations is over. AiStrike, a cybersecurity company pioneering AI-native, preemptive cyber defense, today announced it has raised $7 million in Seed funding to scale its agentic AI platform for security operations. The round was led by Blumberg Capital, with participation from Runtime Ventures, Oregon Venture Fund, and strategic angel investors.
Despite sustained investment in security tools, most security operations remain reactive. Complex, SIEM-centric environments generate overwhelming alert volumes, driving higher costs, analyst fatigue, and limited risk reduction. Traditional SOC and MDR models prioritize processing alerts faster rather than reducing exposure, while newer “AI SOC” solutions apply AI narrowly to triage or investigation workflows without reducing upstream noise or closing detection gaps. The result is fragmented tooling, incremental efficiency gains, and security operations that remain reactive by design.
Cybercriminals are rapidly adopting AI to automate reconnaissance, exploitation, and evasion, increasing the speed and scale of attacks. AiStrike was built for this new reality, where automated threats outpace human-only defense models. Rather than passively reacting to alerts, AiStrike delivers an end-to-end, AI-native cyber defense platform that unifies threat intelligence, exposure analysis, detection engineering, investigation, and response in a single system. Powered by agentic AI across the security operations lifecycle, AiStrike continuously analyzes exposure, improves detections, hunts threats, prioritizes real risk, and drives preventive action, enabling preemptive cyber defense.
“The traditional security operating model no longer works in a world of AI-driven threats,” said Nitin Agale, Founder and CEO of AiStrike. “AiStrike was built to enable preemptive cyber defense, continuously reducing exposure without adding tools, headcount, or black-box services. This funding accelerates our ability to deliver that operating model at scale to enterprises and government organizations.”
Proven at Enterprise and Government Scale
Deployed by global enterprises and government organizations, AiStrike is replacing traditional SOC and MDR engagements. Across more than 5 million investigations in the past year, customers report over 50% lower security operations costs, 90% fewer false positives, 40% broader detection coverage, and investigation times reduced from hours to minutes.
“When we relied on MDR, our team spent most of its time chasing false positives and justifying costs,” said Varun Singhal, Director of Information Security at Sunrun. “With AiStrike, only alerts that truly matter reach our team. We’ve cut costs in half, improved coverage, and gained a single place to investigate and respond. For the first time, our security operations feel proactive and future-ready.”
Building a Foundation for Preemptive Cyber Defense
Security operations are at an inflection point, where AI-driven attackers and agentic AI defenses will determine which organizations stay ahead of risk. Alongside the funding, AiStrike is expanding its platform to establish preemptive cyber defense as the core operating model for modern security operations teams.
Federated AI Analytics Beyond SIEM-Centric Architectures
AiStrike connects directly to alert sources and edge systems to detect, investigate, respond to, and prevent threats at the source, without requiring organizations to centralize all data in a SIEM. This federated model reduces latency, improves coverage, and eliminates much of the cost and operational overhead associated with rigid, centralized SIEM-centric architectures.
Agentic Cyber Defense as a Service
AiStrike delivers preemptive cyber defense through Agentic Cyber Defense as a Service, continuously operating, tuning, and optimizing AI defense agents for customers. Instead of operating another tool, customers focus on outcomes while AiStrike delivers scalable defense capabilities without traditional MDR or black-box models.
Investor Perspective
“What stood out to us about AiStrike was the team’s deep, first-hand experience building and scaling modern SOC platforms, and their clear vision for why current models are breaking,” said Pramod Gosavi, Sr. Principal at Blumberg Capital. “Instead of layering AI onto fragmented workflows, AiStrike is re-architecting security operations around preemptive, exposure-driven defense. This represents a structural shift in how security operations will be built and delivered.”
About AiStrike
AiStrike is a cybersecurity company delivering preemptive cyber defense through an AI-native, agentic approach to security operations. The company helps organizations move beyond reactive SOC and MDR models by continuously improving detection coverage, proactively hunting threats, and reducing risk across distributed environments. AiStrike delivers its capabilities through its AI-native platform and Agentic Cyber Defense as a Service, enabling customers to focus on outcomes while AiStrike operates, tunes, and continuously optimizes AI-driven defense.
For more information, visit www.aistrike.com.
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