AirMDR Brings in $15.5M for AI Analyst-Driven MDR Delivery

AI-native Managed Detection and Response (MDR) organization, AirMDR, recently raised $15.5 million in seed round funding to invest in scaling sales and marketing to meet the demand for AI SOC as a Service, along with boosting the efficacy and expertise of AI Analysts.

Cash infusion will drive goal to bring AI-enabled security to SMBs

A $10.5 million infusion investment was added to the initial $5 million seed round. It will be used to bring the benefits of AI SOC to enterprises and small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB).

The round was led by Race Capital, with participation from AIrMDR’s earlier backers: Foundation Capital and Storm Ventures.

“We are delighted to place our faith in AirMDR for their innovative AI-powered MDR service that we believe will be a core solution for the $5B MDR market moving forward,” said Sid Trivedi, Partner, Foundation Capital. “AirMDR’s AI SOC will lower costs, improve cybersecurity, and contribute to a rapidly expanding market expected to double by the end of 2025. We are delighted to support their growth.”

AirMDR addresses the challenges traditional MDR solutions face, including their shortcomings in SMB environments, where they struggle with slow response times and high-quality alert handling. Through a powerful AI analyst, AirMDR addresses these challenges by automatically triaging 100 percent of alerts in real time.

With AirMDR’s 24/7 SOC team of expert analysts reviewing, validating, and improving the work of the AI Analyst, a second layer of defense is added to help organizations build resiliency.

“For the last 25 years, in leadership, founding, and CEO positions at companies like ArcSight, Sumo Logic, and LogicHub, I saw how expensive high-quality Detection and Response was,” said AirMDR CEO Kumar Saurabh. “Our mission at AirMDR is to bring Fortune 500 quality SOC to every enterprise at an affordable price. We are running in production across multiple enterprises. Our hybrid model, combining AI Analysts with a 24/7 team of expert human analysts, provides a second layer of defense that best meets the needs of MDR buyers.”

AI analysts bring security expertise in plain-lanugage format

AirMDR’s AI Analysts communicate in plain English, answer questions, learn continuously, and execute tasks with precision. Through automated playbooks from AirMDR, threats can be quickly investigated, triaged, responded to, and contained in minutes. Every step is also documented, substantiated, and processed with complete transparency for comprehensive remediation and learning.

AirMDR has 200+ out-of-the-box integrations and can add new ones quickly to support 100 percent of an organization’s security stack.

“AirMDR has significantly accelerated our time to value– we were able to quickly integrate with our systems and deploy automation playbooks with minimal overhead,” said Hans Gustavson, CISO of Workato. “Today, AirMDR is triaging nearly 80 percent of our security findings, allowing our SOC team to stay focused on the most critical threats. Beyond the technology, the AirMDR team has been an outstanding partner– responsive to our needs and quick to deliver new connectors and enhancements that align with our security objectives.”

Among the benefits of partnering with AirMDR is that it’s delivered as a fully managed service, offering customers the full benefit of AI-driven speed and precision, white-glove onboarding, curated integrations, and expert oversight from seasoned security analysts.

“We strongly believe that investing in early-stage technology companies is all about the people and founders who lead these companies,” said Alfred Chuang, Managing Partner, Race Capital. “We believe in AirMDR’s mission to solve businesses’ most pressing security challenges through the use of combining AI and the MDR layer that AirMDR has built and proven with early customers already. Kumar Saurabh, through his leadership experience, is one of those relentless founders we look to support with his execution and vision for the future of cybersecurity. We are delighted to be part of AirMDR’s journey at creating a safer world for businesses to operate.”

Investment in the channel has not slowed down in 2025, as organizations have been raising new funds to scale platforms. Learn more about Cynomi’s recent $37 million Series B funding round to help scale its security platform with new features.