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Lital Asher-Dotan Has Spent a Career Turning Complex Systems Into Stories People Can Act On
Before she marketed autonomous security operations, Lital Asher-Dotan learned to command an intelligence shift, study living systems and open a consumer giant's doors to outside invention. Her career is a study in translation - from complexity to consequence, and from technical capability to a story a market can use.
Intezer Turned Malware DNA Into an AI Analyst That Never Clocks Out
The Israeli-born security company spent years mapping the family tree of malicious code. Now it uses that forensic habit to investigate every alert - and asks human analysts to supervise the verdicts instead of shoveling through the queue.
Don Jeter Put a Monster Truck in the Cybersecurity Machine
In a trade-show world of blue gradients and careful claims, Torq's CMO chose skeletons, tattoos and Grave Digger. Beneath the spectacle is a practical playbook for making enterprise software memorable - and accountable to revenue.
Shannon King Builds the Growth Engine Before the Spotlight Arrives
Across developer tools, monetization infrastructure, and cloud security, Shannon King has treated marketing as an operating system - one built from shared language, measurable behavior, and the discipline to make technical ideas travel.
Torq Threw Out Its First Startup Idea - Then Built the AI Security Operator Big Companies Actually Use
Torq started with a product the market would not reliably buy. Its founders followed the one group already pulling it off the shelf - security teams - and turned that failed sales motion into a $1.2 billion lesson in listening.
Shahar Ben-Hador
Shahar Ben-Hador is the CEO and co-founder of Radiant Security, an adaptive AI SOC platform based in Pleasanton, California. A cybersecurity veteran of nearly two decades, he climbed from IT administrator to become Imperva's first CISO, then led product at Exabeam before founding Radiant in 2021 with Barry Shteiman to help security teams triage every alert without drowning in noise. Radiant raised a $15M Series A in November 2023 led by Next47.
7AI
7AI is a Boston-based cybersecurity company building an agentic security platform that deploys autonomous, reasoning-based AI agents to take over the repetitive investigation work that overwhelms security operations centers. Founded in 2024 by Cybereason co-founders Lior Div and Yonatan Striem-Amit, the company ingests alerts from a customer's existing security tools, triages and investigates them at machine speed, and surfaces only real threats with full context and recommended actions - cutting mean time to respond from hours to minutes and eliminating the bulk of false positives. In December 2025 it raised a $130M Series A, described as the largest cybersecurity Series A on record.
RAD Security
RAD Security is a San Francisco cloud-native security company that pairs runtime telemetry with agentic AI to help teams detect, investigate, and respond to threats across Kubernetes and cloud environments. Founded in 2021 as KSOC and rebranded RAD Security in 2024, it builds behavioral, eBPF-driven detection and a roster of AI 'RADBots' that triage alerts, generate compliance evidence, and automate security workflows. The company raised a $14M Series A in February 2025, bringing total funding to about $20M.
Radiant Security
Radiant Security builds an adaptive, agentic AI SOC platform that triages, investigates, and helps respond to every security alert a team receives - regardless of source, complexity, or novelty. Founded in 2021 by security veterans Shahar Ben-Hador and Barry Shteiman, the company aims to cut the alert noise that overwhelms security operations centers, escalating only real threats to human analysts and reducing analyst workload by up to 98%. It also folds in integrated log management to cut SIEM storage costs.
Gruve
Gruve is an outcome-based enterprise AI services company that helps large organizations move from AI strategy to production-grade deployment across customer experience, cybersecurity, data and platform engineering — billing on results rather than billable hours.
Panther
Panther is a cloud-native SIEM and AI SOC platform that helps modern security teams detect, investigate, and respond to threats at cloud scale using Python-based detection-as-code and a serverless security data lake.
Exaforce
Exaforce is a San Jose cybersecurity company building an Agentic AI SOC platform. Its multi-model AI engine and a crew of agents called Exabots handle detection, triage, investigation, and response so security teams stop drowning in alerts and start finding the real breaches.
Ankur Singla
Ankur Singla is a three-time founder and serial entrepreneur who has built and exited companies totaling over $676 million in acquisitions. Currently Founder & CEO of Exaforce, an agentic AI-driven Security Operations platform based in San Jose, California, Singla is on a mission to give cybersecurity defenders a 10x productivity advantage. Before Exaforce, he founded Volterra (acquired by F5 Networks for $500M in 2021) and Contrail Systems (acquired by Juniper Networks for $176M in 2012 just nine months after founding). With a background spanning SDN, NFV, edge computing, and now agentic AI, Singla has consistently been at the frontier of enterprise infrastructure. Exaforce raised $75M in Series A funding in April 2025 and $125M in Series B in May 2026, reaching a $725M valuation.