Torq was founded in 2020 by cybersecurity veterans Ofer Smadari, Leonid Belkind, and Eldad Livni — with backgrounds spanning Luminate Security (acquired by Symantec) and Check Point Software. Headquartered in New York with roots in Israel, Torq has established itself as a leader in agentic AI for Security Operations Centers. The company reached a $1.2 billion valuation after its $140 million Series D in January 2026, bringing total funding to $332 million from investors including Merlin Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Insight Partners. Customers include Chipotle, PepsiCo, Siemens, Telefonica, Wiz, and ZoomInfo across the Fortune 500.
Security operations teams face escalating alert volumes that outpace analyst capacity — creating a compounding backlog where critical incidents are delayed and Tier-1 work consumes resources that should focus on complex threats. Torq addresses this through two complementary products: Torq Hyperautomation, a no-code platform for building security workflows across the enterprise stack, and Torq HyperSOC, a full autonomous SOC solution that handles detection, triage, investigation, and remediation at machine scale. The platform integrates across SIEM, XDR, SOAR, and logging tools and deploys AI agents — led by SOCrates, its autonomous analyst — to process incidents end-to-end. In April 2025, Torq acquired Revrod to embed advanced multi-agent RAG capabilities into HyperSOC-2o, further extending autonomous investigation depth.
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Validated as AI native security by analyst Richard Stiennon. The tag opens Torq’s room on Guardians of the Machine Age in a panel.
Richard Stiennon
Leonid Belkind
Leonid and Richard discuss security talent shortages and event overload, and Leon explains how Torq's success has largely grown from their enablement of hyper automation with no code workflows, human in the loop controls, and extensible integrations.
