The big day is here! Partha and I are beyond excited to officially launch Kenzo Security! We’re backed by $4.5M in seed funding led by The General Partnership with additional support from top security operators and angel investors. Our mission is simple yet powerful: Defeat the Adversary.

Security Operations needs a Revolution

Throughout my career, I’ve been fortunate to collaborate with world-class teams, and I’ve always been driven by a desire to create solutions that directly solve problems for security professionals. Having worked in the security space for over a decade, I’ve seen first-hand how traditional solutions fall short of addressing the fundamental pain points that security teams face. Despite advances in technology, security teams still face overwhelming volumes of alerts, slow detection times, and manual, siloed processes that hinder their ability to respond effectively. The burden of alert fatigue, coupled with inefficient workflows, often leaves teams reactive rather than proactive. From building early security technologies to leading teams tackling complex threats, I’ve seen how these pain points leave organizations exposed and make it difficult to scale security operations efficiently.

And Partha faced these challenges first hand when he was a Captain in the US Air Force, responsible for investigating and hunting nation state adversaries at the US Air Force’s Security Operations Center. Even though they had the best of breed tools and the resources of a 400 person team, the organization still drowned in alerts and mean-time-to-detection/mean-time-to-response were far too long. Ultimately, they struggled with keeping up with adversaries. And these challenges were the same ones that his customers faced when he was a product manager building market leading security products at Datadog and CrowdStrike.

All the previous iterations of security solutions - SOARs, Security Copilots, AI SOC Analysts - don’t solve the core pain of customers. From our experiences and our customer’s experiences, we’ve determined that security operations aren't just about closing alerts. It’s about surfacing the most important insight to a human for action. 

Why is now the Inflection Point?

Cyber adversaries are leveraging agentic solutions to 10x their outcomes. Defenders need to keep up. Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) allow us to scale a human level understanding and decision making capabilities to the speed of a machine. These agents can own multiple different security operations functions to include investigation, detection, threat intelligence, and risk based alerting. All of which are necessary to ultimately reduce an organization’s cyber risk.

Introducing the Kenzo Security Platform

Kenzo Security is our answer to these challenges. Kenzo Security is the industry’s first multi-functional security operations platform built entirely on an agentic AI architecture. By taking a data-first approach and deploying specialized AI agents across every key function of Security Operations, from detection and investigation to hunting and tuning, security teams can expect:

• Lower MTTR by Faster, Smarter Investigations: Kenzo correlates and autonomously investigates every ingested alert, to include never before seen alerts, within minutes. Kenzo does not utilize statically defined playbooks. Using agentic understanding, Kenzo investigates each alert across multiple data sources and leverages a risk centric decision system to determine case outcomes, resulting in a 10x reduction in MTTR without compromising investigation quality.  

• Lower MTTD by Proactive Threat Detection & Response: Kenzo ingests and processes emerging threat intelligence sources, both structured IOC feeds and unstructured threat reporting, to identify customers who are at risk. Kenzo then suggests new detection rules to increase coverage, significantly reducing MTTD of the latest adversary attack vectors.

• Higher ROI, Optimized Resource Utilization: Kenzo maximizes the return on your existing security investments — both in tools and talent. Our leading agentic architecture builds a deep, contextual understanding of your environment, enabling AI agents to detect patterns of adversary behavior and deliver high-signal, actionable recommendations to your team. The result? Your existing stack works harder, your analysts move faster, and your organization sees greater risk reduction with the resources already in place.

• Reduced Human hours: By agents taking over mundane repetitive tasks like alert triage, investigation, and response, Kenzo drastically reduces reliance on human intervention. This allows security teams to focus on high-value activities while the system handles routine, low-level tasks, improving both efficiency and morale.

The Kenzo Difference

Imagine if your security data wasn’t just stored — but understood. Not in static warehouse, but a living, learning ecosystem that continuously adapts and evolves with your environment. That’s the foundation of Kenzo. Why? Because good AI needs good, clean data. Kenzo’s data mesh is the bedrock. It's the foundation that allows Kenzo to achieve the extraordinary: a human-level understanding of your entire security landscape. Unlike traditional architectures constrained by rate limits or rigid schemas, Kenzo’s data mesh architecture is purpose-built for scalability — enabling teams to seamlessly support new use cases without overhauling their data pipeline or sacrificing performance. This is what enables our AI to reason and not just react.

But AI that truly works in security can’t rely on one-size-fits-all models. LLMs have shown incredible promise but real-world deployments in security faces challenges: large amounts of data, hallucinations, a lack of context-specific knowledge, and the need for reliable outputs. That’s why Kenzo takes a fundamentally different approach. Over the past 18 months, we’ve developed a network of specialized AI agents — each focused on a core function like threat intelligence, hunting, detection engineering, and investigation. These agents don’t operate in silos — they collaborate, share context, and drive high-fidelity outcomes across the entire workflow. No handoffs. No gaps. Just intelligent operations with human-like understanding and at machine speed .

The Heart of Kenzo

Kenzo Security wouldn’t exist without our customers and the bold security leaders who believed in our vision before it was fully realized. You didn’t just support us - you shaped us. By sharing your hardest problems, pressure-testing our ideas, and pushing us to aim higher, you helped us bring this disruption to life. Your partnership turned ambition into reality and we’re endlessly grateful for your trust.

Our heartfelt thank you to our investors and advisors spearheaded by Dan Portillo and Phin Barnes at The General Partnership and Michael Coates at Seven Hill Ventures. Thank you for backing us early and helping us build a strong, enduring foundation. Your belief in our mission has been our tailwind.

And to the incredible team at Kenzo - You are the reason this product exists. Your relentless commitment to quality, your obsession with solving customer problems, and your belief in what we’re building make all the difference. It’s a privilege to build alongside you.

Get Started Today

Kenzo Security is already supporting multiple customers in the financial services, high tech, retail, and manufacturing industries. Customers are able to get started within minutes with a read-only API access to key security tools. Kenzo gets to work immediately by building a human level understanding of your environment and then delivering security outcomes such as autonomous investigations and risk based insights. 

Request a demo here

We’re just getting started — and we couldn’t be more excited for what’s ahead.

To infinity and beyond!

Harish and Partha