Highlights:

  • Andesite’s bionic SOC offers several key features, including context-aware AI that consolidates fragmented data silos, providing analysts with actionable insights.
  • Andesite secured the new venture capital funding from General Catalyst Group Management and Red Cell Partners.

Cybersecurity operations startup, Andesite AI Inc. secured USD 23 million in the latest funding.

The company also launched the general availability of its bionic Security Operations Center, a human-AI collaboration platform designed to enhance cyber defense teams.

Founded in 2023, Andesite aims to tackle the growing challenge in cybersecurity where, despite increasing investment, security teams are overwhelmed by alerts and struggle to interpret, prioritize, and respond effectively while navigating fragmented tools and portals. The company highlights that SOC leaders face difficulties in demonstrating ROI on rising security expenditures, while the emergence of AI-driven threats further pressures teams to keep up.

Andesite’s new bionic SOC addresses these challenges by fostering human-AI collaboration, enabling cybersecurity teams to move beyond reactive alert triaging and focus on proactive threat hunting.

The platform integrates data silos, tools, and systems across SOC’s ecosystem, providing analysts with the context and visibility needed to make informed decisions. This approach accelerates investigations and enhances security outcomes, empowering defenders to better protect their organizations’ assets, personnel, and customers.

“At Andesite, we recognize that an organization’s competitive advantage lies in unleashing the full potential of its people,” said Co-founder and Chief Executive Brian Carbaugh. “Security analysts are irreplaceable: their intuitive pattern recognition, creative thinking and ability to turn insights into action are crucial. Our promise to them is clear: Your expertise will be amplified. You will be focused on what matters. Your potential will be unleashed.”

Andesite’s bionic SOC offers several key features, including context-aware AI that consolidates fragmented data silos, providing analysts with actionable insights. It also includes evidentiary AI, ensuring full visibility and auditability of machine-assisted decisions.

The platform features adaptive automation, streamlining workflows from threat intelligence to automated response, optimizing security operations while allowing analysts to focus on high-priority threats.

Additionally, the bionic SOC is built with a secure AI architecture that ensures sensitive data remains within predefined boundaries and is not used to train external AI models, giving organizations greater confidence in their security. Its enterprise-ready compliance with standards such as SOC2 Type I and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework further enables smooth deployment in regulated environments.

“Andesite’s technology frees up analysts from toggling between tools and learning countless query languages, so they can focus on hunting down threat actors,” said Chief Product Officer William MacMillan. “Our vision for the SOC is a symbiotic relationship between humans and AI that elevates analysts of every skill level. For CISOs, this means not just better outcomes faster, but the ability to buy down more risk with the team they already have.”

Andesite secured the new venture capital funding from General Catalyst Group Management and Red Cell Partners. The investment will support the enhancement of its bionic SOC platform, expansion into key industries, and scaling of its go-to-market strategy.