TORQ , the Israeli-born startup behind the AI-native Torq HyperSOC platform, is moving security operations centres beyond traditional SOAR with what it calls AI-powered hyper automation. Investors poured 140 million into its Series D, lifting the company’s total raised to 332 million and pushing its valuation to 1.2 billion, according to Dark Reading.
Founded in 2020 by Ofer Smadari, Leonid Belkind and Eldad Livni, Torq counts more than 250 customers, with roughly 30 percent of them still running legacy SOAR platforms from players like Palo Alto Networks or Splunk. The HyperSOC platform is powered by Socrates, an OmniAgent that Torq says acts as an autonomous AI SOC analyst able to manage the total security incident lifecycle and to resolve the majority of Tier-1 alerts without human involvement.
Smadari notes the open platform offers over 200 pre-configured connectors to XDR, IAM and EDR, and can also support customer-built models using Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT via Python scripts in Torq containers. The company’s customer base spans multinational enterprises, including London-based organisations, with Torq eyeing an IPO.