AI-native Managed Detection and Response (MDR) company AirMDR announced a $15.5 million seed round, plus an additional $10.5 million to scale sales and marketing for enterprise and SMB sectors underserved by current MDR offerings. Race Capital led the funding round with participation from Foundation Capital and Storm Ventures.
Headed by a team with a strong detection and response background, co-founders Kumar Saurabh and Srikant Vissamsetti feature extensive experience from Sumo Logic, ArcSight, and other security companies. And traditional MDRs often fall short for SMBs, but AirMDR counters this with an AI analyst that autonomously triages all alerts in real-time, complemented by a human SOC team reviewing, validating, and refining responses.
AirMDR’s AI analysts focus on quality, speed, and affordability, learning continuously, and executing tasks accurately. Plus, automated playbooks investigate and respond swiftly, with full transparency. Supporting over 200 integrations, AirMDR covers 100% of security stacks.
Beyond technology, AirMDR is a fully managed service offering fast AI-driven responses, onboarding, integrations, and expert oversight, combining automation and human judgment in a unified, always-on platform.
How the funding will be used: This capital will boost demand for AirMDR’s AI SOC, which was recognized recently at the 2025 Black Hat Startup Spotlight Competition.
KEY QUOTES:
“AirMDR has significantly accelerated our time to value—we were able to quickly integrate with our systems and deploy automation playbooks with minimal overhead. Today, AirMDR is triaging nearly 80% of our security findings, allowing our SOC team to stay focused on the most critical threats. Beyond the technology, the AirMDR team has been an outstanding partner—responsive to our needs and quick to deliver new connectors and enhancements that align with our security objectives.”
Hans Gustavson, CISO of Workato
“For the last 25 years, in leadership, founding, and CEO positions at companies like ArcSight, Sumo Logic, and LogicHub, I saw how expensive high-quality Detection and Response was. Our mission at AirMDR is to bring Fortune 500 quality SOC to every enterprise at an affordable price. We are running in production across multiple enterprises. Our hybrid model, combining AI Analysts with a 24×7 team of expert human analysts, provides a second layer of defense that best meets the needs of MDR buyers.”
Kumar Saurabh, CEO, AirMDR
“We are delighted to place our faith in AirMDR for their innovative AI-powered MDR service that we believe will be a core solution for the $5B MDR market moving forward. AirMDR’s AI SOC will lower costs, improve cybersecurity, and contribute to a rapidly expanding market expected to double by the end of 2025. We are delighted to support their growth.”
Sid Trivedi, Partner, Foundation Capital
“We’re at the tipping point of a major transformation in security operations. AI-native MDRs aren’t just improving analyst efficiency; they’re materially reshaping the economics and scalability of threat detection and response for SMBs. As organizations face mounting pressure to do more with less, this model is well underway to displacing legacy MDR approaches that rely too heavily on human triage and manual workflows.”
David Gruber, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)
“We strongly believe that investing in early-stage technology companies is all about the people and founders who lead these companies. We believe in AirMDR’s mission to solve businesses’ most pressing security challenges through the use of combining AI and the MDR layer that AirMDR has built and proven with early customers already. Kumar Saurabh, through his leadership experience, is one of those relentless founders we look to support with his execution and vision for the future of cybersecurity. We are delighted to be part of AirMDR’s journey at creating a safer world for businesses to operate.”
Alfred Chuang, Managing Partner, Race Capital
