Qevlar AI has secured an additional $10 million in funding, raising total investor commitments to $14 million.
The funding will accelerate efforts to advance the productivity of SOC teams by enabling them to better prioritise and respond to cyber threats.
This latest round was led by EQT Ventures and Forgepoint Capital International, with strategic participation from tech leaders Olivier Pomel (CEO, Datadog), Florian Douetteau (CEO, Dataiku), and Mehdi Ghissassi (ex-Director of Product, Google DeepMind) — providing a strong endorsement of the company’s approach to security operations. As part of the round, Damien Henault, Managing Director at Forgepoint Capital International, will join the Board of Directors.
Since its launch in 2023, Qevlar AI has delivered transformative results for enterprise customers across multiple industries and managed security service providers (MSSPs). Organisations using the autonomous investigation platform have:
- Reduced time spent on malicious alerts from 40 minutes to just three minutes
- Decreased time Level 1 and 2 analysts spend on tasks such as alert investigations by 90%
- Increased classification accuracy to 99.8%, exceeding the 97% maximum of human experts
- Achieved full autonomous closure of 100% of benign alerts
Ahmed Achchak, Qevlar AI Co-Founder and CEO, said: “The mathematics of cybersecurity are fundamentally broken. When a single analyst can only properly investigate a small selection of alerts per day, yet faces hundreds or even thousands requiring attention, we're asking humans to solve an impossible equation. Our autonomous agents don't just assist analysts; they recalibrate what's possible in security operations by conducting complete investigations that previously consumed hours in just seconds, with greater consistency and accuracy. As a result, SOCs can shift from being reactive alert factories to proactive threat hunters.”
Julien Hobeika, Partner at EQT Ventures, added: “Cyber threats have an immense impact on businesses of all sizes, and counteracting sophisticated AI-powered threats is best done with an even more sophisticated agentic AI defense. We continue to be proud backers of Ahmed, Hamza and the entire Qevlar team and are looking forward to supporting them as they revolutionize SOC capabilities on a global scale.”
Damien Henault, Forgepoint Capital International Managing Director, said: “Qevlar AI’s game-changing autonomous AI agent-led threat investigations are shaping the future of modern SOCs. By combining its proprietary knowledge graph and LLM-based AI technology, Qevlar AI delivers consistent outputs faster and more accurately than alternatives, empowering and augmenting Level 1 and Level 2 analysts to focus on more high-value work. The team embodies everything we look for in the businesses we back – with their ambition, focus, and thorough understanding of the market, their product, and how they help customers solve such an incredibly complex and important problem.”