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Platform delivers 10x reduction in investigation time, down to 3 minutes
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Partech and Forgepoint Capital International lead funding round as global enterprises push beyond alert investigation
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Funding accelerates development of company’s autonomous AI SOC platform, helping SOCs leverage insights from alert investigations for measurable security posture improvement
Qevlar AI, a leader in AI for transforming security operations centers (SOCs), has raised $30 million in funding for its autonomous AI SOC platform. The funding will be used to turn alert investigations into security insights that help SOC teams strengthen their overall security posture.
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The round was jointly led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital International, with participation from EQT Ventures. It follows a period of major growth for the company, which has seen it acquire a global base of customers including both large enterprises such as Mercedes-Benz and Sodexo, and leading global managed security service providers (MSSP) including Orange Cyberdefense, ECI and Atos, and significantly expand its geographical footprint.
Moving SOC teams from reactive mode to proactive defense
SOC teams are overwhelmed by the volume of threat alerts they must manage. A Forrester analysis found that just three attack scenarios can trigger thousands of alerts, and Gartner estimates that 70% of threat detection and response cycle time is spent in the triage and investigation phases. Without a corresponding rise in resources, SOC teams are facing a growing capacity gap.
Qevlar AI’s market-leading platform automates the investigation process, taking on tasks such as data enrichment, identifying alert patterns, and reporting. Analysts are therefore free to move away from reactive work and focus on strategic, proactive tasks, such as threat hunting, incident response planning and improving security postures.
As a result, global Fortune 500 enterprises and leading MSSPs implementing Qevlar AI’s platform have experienced:
- 10x reduction in investigation time, down to 3 minutes
- 100% of alerts investigated with full depth and context
- 24/7 non-stop investigation
- Zero compromise on quality while handling growing alert volumes
The latest funding round will help the Qevlar platform continue to move beyond alert investigations; teams will be able to entrust investigations to its autonomous AI platform, and then use those investigations to generate insights into the underlying security issues. The company says this unique intelligence helps SOC teams identify what the root problems are and take rapid remedial action. This reduces the number of alerts over time and improves the companies’ overall security posture.
Abdelhalim Elmouadan, Head of Global Operational Security, Sodexo, said: “The business case was easy to validate due to the immediate ROI. We not only reduced operational costs significantly but also improved our operational security efficiency and excellence.”
Frederic Zink, Managing Director, France at Orange Cyberdefense, said: “We can now detect threats more quickly and accurately, while focusing our analysts’ expertise on the most complex and critical incidents.”
Ahmed Achchak, Qevlar AI Co-Founder and CEO, said: “ most SOCs measure success by how many alerts they tackle and how quickly they are resolved. But this is a firefighting approach that tells you nothing about your security posture. The only way to understand that is by being able to identify patterns in the trends, and that requires a completely new approach. We’re moving from autonomous alert investigations to an intelligent AI SOC platform that uncovers insights that transform how teams not only deal with alerts, but stop them from recurring. We’re putting out the fire and finding out what started it to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
Forgepoint Capital International led the previous funding round in the company in 2025. Damien Henault, Managing Director & Partner at the firm, said: “We have been impressed by Qevlar AI’s momentum over the last twelve months. It has seen exceptional commercial traction with both Fortune 500 enterprises and leading MSSPs, with its customer base expanding globally. It makes perfect sense for us to increase our backing as it evolves its offering from alerts investigation to a complete end-to-end next-generation AI SOC insights platform, extending all the way from Level 1 investigation to Level 2 enhanced detection and Level 3 remediation.”
Reza Malekzadeh, General Partner at Partech, said: “Qevlar AI stands out as a company with the potential to be genuinely transformative; rather than just allow SOCs to process alerts faster, it is giving them the power to tackle the underlying issues. The company’s success to date highlights just how much the market needs this approach.”
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