Prophet Security just pulled in strategic capital from Amex Ventures and Citi Ventures, and if you live anywhere near a SOC, you can feel why that matters. This is not vanity funding. This is fuel for a fire that has been burning in every security operations center that is tired of drowning in alerts while the clock keeps ticking.
First, respect where it is due. Congratulations to Kamal Shah, Co-founder and CEO, and Vibhav Sreekanti, Co-founder and CTO. Two operators who have seen the movie before. Kamal Shah helped build StackRox into something Red Hat wanted badly enough to buy. Vibhav Sreekanti has lived in the engineering trenches where scale is not a theory, it is a deadline. They did not stumble into artificial intelligence because it was trendy. They built Prophet Security in 2023 with a clear thesis: SOC teams do not need another dashboard. They need backup.
Prophet Security’s platform, Prophet AI, is positioned as an agentic AI SOC Analyst. Not a chatbot with a security badge. An autonomous system that triages alerts, runs investigations across siloed tools, and recommends response actions. It connects to existing security stacks, gathers context, produces investigation narratives, and aims to reduce mean time to response without asking analysts to babysit it. The privacy angle is not an afterthought either. Customer data is not used to train underlying models. In a world nervous about where data ends up, that detail lands.
The capital story is just as deliberate. $11M in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures. $30M in Series A led by Accel with Bain Capital Ventures participating. Now strategic investment from Amex Ventures and Citi Ventures, amount unconfirmed. That is not random money. That is institutional conviction lining up behind a bet that agentic AI will become infrastructure inside modern SOCs.
There is a lesson here for founders. Prophet Security did not lead with buzzwords. They led with a specific pain: alert fatigue, fragmented workflows, analysts stretched thin. They built for the operator, not the press release. When you solve something that hurts every day, capital finds you. When you combine that with founders who have taken a company through acquisition before, investors listen a little closer.
For CISOs and security leaders, this is a signal. The market is moving from AI as assistant to AI as analyst. From suggestion engine to action engine. The question is not whether automation belongs in the SOC. The question is how much of the investigation stack you are comfortable letting an agent run while your team focuses on judgment calls that actually require humans.
