Edward Wu

Edward Wu is the founder and CEO of Dropzone AI, a Seattle company building autonomous AI agents that investigate security alerts like a tier-1 SOC analyst. After eight years at ExtraHop Networks leading AI/ML detection engineering and dropping out of a computer science Ph.D. at the University of Washington, he started Dropzone in 2023 to attack what he calls the defender's dilemma. The company raised a $37 million Series B in July 2025 led by Theory Ventures, serves more than 100 enterprises, and counts UiPath, Zapier and Pipe among its customers. Wu holds more than 30 patents in machine learning and cybersecurity and contributes to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.