Dropzone AI announced a $3.5 million seed round led by Decibel Partners, with participation from Pioneer Square Ventures Fund.
Dropzone’s pre-trained AI security agents use large language models and work alongside human security analysts, handling repetitive tasks and investigating alerts. The agents mimic the thought process and techniques of expert security analysts.
Dropzone says most security teams are only able to fully research about 10% of daily events.
The rush of AI and generative AI technologies is sparking concerns about cybersecurity, with both security experts and hackers taking advantage of new capabilities.
“Companies must confront the new reality that we’ve reached an inflection point where humans alone can’t keep up anymore. They need to be armed with an entirely new and better way to automate and enable their defensive forces,” Dropzone CEO and founder Edward Wu said in a statement.
Wu previously spent eight years at Seattle-based security company ExtraHop, which was acquired in 2021 by private equity firms Bain Capital and Crosspoint Capital. Wu was most recently a senior principal scientist before leaving the company in February.
Other backers in the seed round include Oliver Friedrichs, CEO of Pangea Security and founder and former CEO of Phantom Cyber; Jon Oberheide, co-founder and former CTO of Duo Security; and Jesse Rothstein, co-founder and CTO of ExtraHop.
