Announcements

Czech-led Exaforce Raises $125M Series B To Scale AI Native Security Operations Platform

by
Jakob Ulrych
May 12, 2026
Exaforce has raised $125M in Series B funding. The round strengthens its position in AI-native security operations. It is one of the largest investments in the emerging AI SOC market. The funding reflects rising demand for real-time cyber defence systems at enterprise scale.

The round includes HarbourVest, Peak XV, Mayfield, Khosla Ventures, Seligman Ventures and AICONIC. It follows a $75M Series A completed one year earlier. The company now reaches $200M in total funding. This signals strong investor confidence in its long-term direction.

Exaforce will use the capital to scale its platform globally. It will also expand engineering and product development capacity. The focus is on real-time reasoning and faster threat response. The company is targeting machine-speed security operations.

Exaforce is built on agentic security operations. It uses AI agents called Exabots. These agents operate through a real-time security knowledge graph. This system delivers full contextual awareness for security decisions.

The platform connects identities, permissions, cloud activity and security events. It builds relationships instantly as data is created. This removes the need for manual reconstruction during investigations. Traditional systems rely on fragmented logs and repeated queries.

Exaforce completes investigations in under one minute. This is up to 10 times faster than legacy SOC systems. Those systems often require multiple queries and long reasoning chains. Exaforce eliminates this delay through pre-built contextual mapping.

The architecture reduces both time and compute cost. It retrieves context instead of rebuilding it repeatedly. This improves efficiency across enterprise environments. It also reduces token usage during investigations. Each event is directly linked to identity and permissions.

This improves reasoning accuracy across the platform. It also reduces false positives during detection. Security teams receive clearer and more reliable alerts. 

"The platform is designed for defenders. It provides complete context from the start and unifies AI agents and security engineers in one system."

Exaforce has grown rapidly over the past year. The company now has more than 130 employees. It has processed millions of security investigations. Growth has been driven by enterprise adoption across key industries.

Customers include organisations in healthcare, technology and financial services. Guardant Health is among its enterprise users. Replit is also part of its customer base. These organisations operate in high-risk digital environments.

The detection and response improved significantly, and the coverage expanded without additional headcount. This improved operational efficiency across teams."

The platform supports natural language investigation through Exabots. Security teams can query threats using simple prompts. This reduces reliance on technical query systems. It improves accessibility across teams.

Exaforce also introduced Vibe Hunting. This feature enables hypothesis-driven investigation. It allows teams to explore potential threats faster. It strengthens proactive detection capabilities. The company plans to expand across Europe and Japan. These regions are key growth markets. 

It is also investing in customer success and MDR services. These investments support enterprise-scale adoption. Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures said defence economics are shifting. He said reducing defence cost changes security outcomes. He believes Exaforce enables this shift in leverage.

"Exaforce unified detection, response and automation, it improved visibility across security data which helped scale operations more effectively."

In the past year, the company grew to over 130 employees and processed millions of investigations across its growing customer base. With recent product announcements like Vibe Hunting and measurable customer outcomes across detection, investigation, and response, the approach is resonating with organizations looking to stay ahead of increasingly fast and adaptive adversaries. 

"The biggest opportunity in enterprise security is flipping the economics, so that defenders, not attackers, hold the leverage. SIEMs were built to investigate what happened. Exaforce is built to investigate what's true. That's not an improvement on the SIEM model. It's a replacement."

Subscribe to our newsletter

Join our newsletter to get the best hottest startup tapas.

Popular posts

Agentic marketplace intelligence startup Merchantee raises €1.8M to expand across Europe

June 9, 2026

Ex-DeepMind Researchers, with Czech roots, Raise $20M for Airspeed to Build the AI Execution Layer for Revenue Teams

June 4, 2026

Human Archive raises $8.2M to collect egocentric data from Indian gig workers, among investors Czech N1

June 8, 2026

Related posts

sunbay.io, the platform helping finance teams recover overdue invoices faster, has raised €550K in funding from Kogito Ventures, with participation from s20 and angel investors, including Jostein Håvaldsrud, CTO of Kahoot. The company already works with more than 20 businesses across five countries, collecting payments from customers in 30 markets.
by
Jakob Ulrych
This fall, Prague will once again showcase the best of the Czech startup scene, with international companies also in attendance. Czech Startup Week, an initiative of the CzechInvest agency, annually brings together key ecosystem events into a single week so that it can offer founders, investors, corporations, aspiring entrepreneurs, and startup enthusiasts access to the full breadth of what the Czech startup scene has to offer over the course of one week.
by
Collaborative Post
Vienna-based fonio.ai, an AI platform focused on customer communication for small and medium-sized businesses, has raised $17 million in a seed funding round at a $140 million valuation. Total funding now stands at over $20 million.
by
Jakob Ulrych
Merchantee, the agentic marketplace intelligence company for ecommerce sellers, today announces a €1.8M round led by Reflex Capital, with support from Czech Founders VC and Lighthouse Ventures. The combined pre-seed round and extension will fund product development, new marketplace integrations, and an ambitious European growth plan extending from Poland to the Netherlands. Merchantee is trusted by hundreds of sellers and the digital sales teams of brands like Philips, Lindt, SodaStream, and Vilgain.
by
Jakob Ulrych