AiStrike has raised $7 million in seed funding to expand an AI-native platform designed to help security teams move from reactive alert handling to what the company calls “preemptive” cyber defense. The round was led by Blumberg Capital, with participation from Runtime Ventures, Oregon Venture Fund, and strategic angel investors.
Based in San Francisco, AiStrike is positioning its agentic AI system as an alternative to traditional security operations center (SOC) and managed detection and response (MDR) models that often revolve around SIEM-heavy architectures and high alert volumes. The company argues that many security programs remain reactive because they are optimized to process alerts faster rather than reduce exposure and close detection gaps upstream.
AiStrike says its platform unifies multiple security operations functions—threat intelligence, exposure analysis, detection engineering, investigation, and response—into a single system powered by agentic AI across the lifecycle. The company’s approach emphasizes continuously analyzing exposure, improving detections, hunting threats, prioritizing risk, and triggering preventive actions, particularly as attackers increasingly adopt AI to automate reconnaissance, exploitation, and evasion.
The company claims enterprise and government adoption, saying it is replacing conventional SOC and MDR engagements in some environments. AiStrike reports that across more than 5 million investigations over the past year, customers have seen more than 50% lower security operations costs, 90% fewer false positives, 40% broader detection coverage, and investigation times reduced from hours to minutes.
A key product direction outlined alongside the funding is what AiStrike describes as “federated AI analytics” that connects directly to alert sources and edge systems rather than requiring centralized data aggregation in a SIEM. The company says this model can reduce latency and overhead while expanding coverage. AiStrike also offers an “Agentic Cyber Defense as a Service” delivery model, where it operates and tunes AI defense agents for customers, aiming to provide outcomes without the traditional MDR structure or “black-box” services.
With the new funding, AiStrike says it will scale delivery of this operating model to more enterprise and government organizations and continue expanding the platform to make preemptive defense a default posture for modern security operations teams.
KEY QUOTES:
“The traditional security operating model no longer works in a world of AI-driven threats. 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.”
Nitin Agale, Founder and CEO, AiStrike
“When we relied on MDR, our team spent most of its time chasing false positives and justifying costs. 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.”
Varun Singhal, Director of Information Security, Sunrun
“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. 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.”
Pramod Gosavi, Senior Principal, Blumberg Capital
