Kenzo Security announced it emerged from stealth after 18 months with $4.5 million in funding from The General Partnership and Michael Coates (former CISO of Mozilla and Twitter). And its Agentic AI Security Operations Platform is purpose-built to help CISOs and security teams do more with less while reducing risk.
Entrepreneurs Harish Singh and Partha Naidu the the founders of Kenzo. Harish is a repeat founder and founding engineer behind successful security startups like Lacework and E8 Security, and one of the original minds behind the patented Polygraph technology that redefined cloud security.
Partha – a former U.S. Air Force cyber operations leader – later led security product development at Datadog and CrowdStrike, helping shape the next generation of cloud security solutions. And they saw the need for a new data-driven approach to security operations, going beyond alert triage, and tackling the real challenges security teams face daily.
At its core, the Kenzo platform deploys a network of domain-specific AI agents trained to handle key functions of the security operations lifecycle. These agents collaborate autonomously on a proprietary data mesh that enables fast, deep, and contextual analysis across an organization’s entire environment with minimal human input.
Kenzo’s platform utilizes a swarm of purpose-built AI agents trained for specific security functions and deployed on a proprietary data mesh architecture. This enables deep collaboration across agents, more consistent and accurate outcomes, and what security teams need most: meaningful risk reduction at scale.
This approach allows Kenzo to:
1.) Drive down risk by surfacing only the threats that truly matter while keeping teams focused on high-impact work
2.) Eliminates alert fatigue and manual busywork by offloading investigations and decisions to AI
3.) Scales security outcomes without increasing headcount, delivering greater impact while controlling costs
This funding will be used to grow Kenzo’s engineering and sales teams to address early customer demand and to expand the platform’s capabilities while preserving the depth and precision of each specialized security function.
KEY QUOTES:
“Every security team is trying to figure out how to leverage AI, but most tools simply wrap LLMs around Tier 1 alert handling. Kenzo takes a fundamentally different approach. We’ve built a true platform—not a chatbot— powered by a swarm of specialized agents working together to investigate threats, deploy and tune detections, hunt proactively, and prioritize response in real time.”
– Harish Singh, CEO and Co-Founder of Kenzo
“We invested in Kenzo because they’re solving a real pain point with real technical depth. The AI SOC Analyst is becoming a commodity. Kenzo’s data-driven, multi-agent approach is what security teams actually need to reduce risk at scale.”
– Dan Portillo, co-founder and managing partner at The General Partnership
“Kenzo Security’s Agentic AI Architecture helps detection and response teams act faster and smarter, focusing on critical threats and delivering real security outcomes—essential for teams aiming to scale intelligently.”
– Michael Coates, Founding Partner at Seven Hill Ventures & former 3x CISO
