Mate, a cybersecurity startup based in Tel Aviv, announced its launch from stealth with a $15.5 million seed round led by Team8 and Insight Partners. The funding will support rapid hiring across engineering, expand collaborations with design partners, and prepare the company for broader enterprise deployment as demand grows for more efficient and adaptive Security Operations Centers.
The company enters the market as security teams face increasing alert fatigue, data overload, and mounting pressure to investigate incidents with limited staff. Industry research highlights the scale of the challenge, with most analysts reporting overwhelming alert volumes, high rates of false positives, and significant time spent stitching together evidence before investigations can even begin. These constraints have placed CISOs in a position where they must maintain resilience while managing resource scarcity.
Mate’s approach centers on embedding directly into existing security stacks from the first day of deployment, learning in real time from an organization’s most experienced analysts. The platform uses large language models, reasoning systems, and AI agents to investigate alerts, connect evidence, generate documentation, and resolve incidents. Routine alerts are handled autonomously, while complex events are escalated with enriched context. This process builds a growing body of organizational knowledge that powers the system’s ability to scale investigations with precision. The company claims that this enables analysts to be up to ten times more effective.
Early pilots with major financial institutions and critical infrastructure operators in the United States and Europe indicate significant reductions in response times and fewer analyst hours lost to false positives. According to Mate, participating organizations have been able to expand operational coverage without requiring headcount increases, allowing CISOs to maintain defense quality even as threats escalate. The system’s continuous learning enables SOC teams to adapt as new incidents are resolved, creating an evolving foundation for decision-making.
Mate’s founding team includes veterans of Wiz and Microsoft with extensive backgrounds in cyber operations, threat intelligence, and large-scale product development. The company is already working with organizations in high-stakes sectors to validate the platform under real-world conditions across the U.S., Europe, and Israel.
Founded in early 2025, Mate is led by CEO Asaf Wiener, with co-founders Oren Saban and Guy Pergal rounding out the leadership team. The company aims to redefine how enterprises scale their security operations by pairing analyst expertise with continuously improving AI systems.
KEY QUOTES
“The old approach of configuring and maintaining endless playbooks doesn’t scale. 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. That’s why we built Mate—to help SOCs move with clarity, consistency, and confidence, even in the most fragmented environments.”
Asaf Wiener, CEO and Co-Founder of Mate
“Mate is the proof that AI isn’t the future of security operations- it’s the present. The problem and opportunity are massive, and it takes a very specific kind of founders to seize them. This team has already built some of the most impactful security products of the past decade, and they’re perfectly positioned for this next chapter.”
“SOC teams are moving fast to adopt AI, and Mate’s rapid progress since our investment underscores how quickly this market is transforming. When attackers scale with AI, the only way to fight back is to scale the team and arm them with the power of AI agents, and Mate does exactly that.”
Ori Barzilay, Partner at Team8 Capital
