Mate Emerges from Stealth with $15.5M to Build AI-Powered SOC

Mate Co-Founders (L-R): Oren Saban (CPO), Asaf Wiener (CEO), and Guy Pergal (CTO)

Mate, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based cybersecurity startup, emerged from stealth with $15.5m in seed funding.

Backers included Team8 and Insight Partners.

The company intends to use the funds for the expansion of its engineering team, extended design-partner collaborations, and preparation for broader enterprise rollout.

Founded in early 2025, and led by Asaf Wiener, who was joined by Oren Saban, and Guy Pergal, Mate provides an AI-powered SOC solution that learns from an organization’s best analysts and builds a contextual data layer that can help security teams become more effective.

The company’s system embeds into the tools analysts already use (SIEMs, EDRs, email security platforms) and learns from analysts’ organizational knowledge in real time. Using LLMs, reasoning models, and AI agents, Mate’s AI agents investigate alerts, connect evidence, and resolve incidents. Alerts are resolved automatically with full documentation, while complex incidents are escalated with enriched context.

The company is already working with large financial institutions and critical infrastructure operators across the U.S., Europe, and Israel to validate the system in high-stakes environments.

Source: FinSMEs