Mate Emerges From Stealth Mode With $15.5 Million in Seed Funding

Mate, an AI-powered Security Operations Center startup, has emerged from stealth with $15.5 million in seed funding from Team8 and Insight Partners. Founded in early 2025 by Wiz and Microsoft alumni Asaf Wiener, Oren Saban, and Guy Pergal, the Tel Aviv-based company relies on AI agents, large language models, and reasoning models to investigate and resolve incidents. By automatically resolving alerts and escalating complex issues with full context, Mate aims to turn SOCs into continuously learning defence systems.

It builds a knowledge base that its AI agents rely on to connect evidence and improve with each resolved incident, and claims to have reduced mean time to respond and false positives in pilot deployments with financial services and critical infrastructure organisations in Europe and the US. The startup plans to use the funding to expand its engineering team, ready broader enterprise rollout, and extend design-partner collaborations, according to SecurityWeek. “Attackers are already using AI to launch bigger and faster campaigns,” said co-founder and CEO Asaf Wiener.