In a world where cyber threats evolve faster than defences can keep up, Torq is rewriting the rules. The Israeli company that automates security operations has announced a $140 million Series D round. This round has increased its valuation to $1.2 billion, and its total funding is $332 million.
Led by Merlin Ventures, a cybersecurity powerhouse with unmatched ties to U.S. markets, the round drew nods from all prior backers, including Evolution Equity Partners, Notable Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners, and Greenfield Partners. This capital infusion targets speeding up the rollout of Torq’s platform, which promises full autonomy for security centres in enterprises and governments.
How Torq won inside the SOC
Security teams today face alert overload, shrinking headcount growth, and rising attack complexity. Torq’s pitch to the market is that the traditional SOC model no longer works. Instead of adding more analysts or layering tools, the company is pushing for operational autonomy at scale.
Torq was founded in 2020 by cybersecurity experts Ofer Smadari, Leonid Belkind, and Eldad Livni to rewrite the rules of security operations. Its growth has been driven less by top-down mandates and more by organic uptake inside security teams. Its software allows analysts to deploy autonomous agents without heavy consulting or long implementation cycles. That ease of use has turned Torq from a niche tool into the backbone of day-to-day operations for many large enterprises.
Those agents now handle millions of repetitive and complex tasks across Fortune 500 security teams, quietly absorbing the work that once consumed human analysts. The result is a rare dynamic in enterprise software: a bottom-up product becoming mission-critical infrastructure. That pattern helps explain why Torq’s platform has expanded rapidly across multinational environments rather than stalling at the pilot stage.
A clear path into government infrastructure
The partnership with Merlin Ventures also opens a different door. With deep experience in U.S. federal markets, the firm brings Torq closer to agencies and operators responsible for national infrastructure. Compliance hurdles such as FedRAMP have historically slowed security innovation in government environments. Merlin’s involvement signals that Torq is being positioned not just for commercial growth, but for long-term relevance in the public sector.
As governments modernise their digital defences, they are under pressure to reduce analyst burnout while improving response speed. Torq’s model, including automated triage, reduced alert noise, and human focus on verified threats, aligns neatly with those priorities.
From customers to proof points
Torq’s expanding customer list reads like a stress test for its platform. Global enterprises such as Marriott, Siemens, Uber, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and Virgin Atlantic operate across jurisdictions, regulations, and threat landscapes. Winning and expanding within those environments has helped validate Torq’s claim that its system can scale without collapsing under complexity.
The company’s acquisition of RevRod further strengthened its ability to run coordinated, multi-layered investigations, reinforcing its focus on full lifecycle response rather than isolated automation.
Now, fueled by massive customer adoption of AI agents, Torq scales the world’s first true AI SOC platform and accelerates expansion into the U.S. federal market.
What’s next?
At $1.2 billion, Torq’s valuation reflects more than momentum. It reflects a growing belief that the future of cybersecurity will be defined not by louder alerts or larger teams, but by systems that quietly handle the noise, so humans can focus on what actually matters.
Torq is redefining security operations,” said Shay Michel, Managing Partner, Merlin Ventures. “They’ve fused automation and human judgment into a new AI SOC Platform built for asymmetric threats and real-world scale. This is why Merlin is leading the investment. Our focus now is speed, accelerating go-to-market, expanding across commercial and government markets, and building the next global category leader in AI security operations.”
“This funding accelerates our mission to define and dominate the AI SOC market. We are moving far beyond the constraints of legacy SOAR and SIEM, harnessing the Agentic AI Era to deliver outcomes our customers rely on,” said Ofer Smadari, CEO and co-founder, Torq. “Global enterprise adoption of our AI SOC Platform has validated our vision for the future of security operations. We have achieved tremendous revenue growth, with Fortune 100 customers adopting our AI Agents in their SOCs for everything from investigation to response. Our partnership with Merlin Ventures is the definitive signal that Torq is now ready to scale this massive customer success into the high-stakes Federal and Public Sector markets.”
“Torq delivers fast, measurable value to Valvoline’s SOC and eliminates the manual tasks that once consumed our analysts’ time,” said Corey Kaemming, CISO, Valvoline. “Within 48 hours of deployment, our team was using Torq’s AI SOC Platform for automating phishing triage, accelerating alert handling, and reducing response times across the board. The results were transformative. Analysts reclaimed hours of time, containment actions became automatic, and the security team evolved from reactive responders to proactive strategists. Torq took the vision that was in our heads and actually put it into practice. My team is in love with Torq.”
“We’re always innovating our security operations approach at Virgin Atlantic, and the Torq AI SOC Platform is driving significant benefits for us,” said John White, CISO, Virgin Atlantic. “Today, innovation stems from an AI-first approach, which Torq excels at. Torq is making our security operations simpler and more efficient, and providing us with complete coverage across our security stack. Torq is now our umbrella platform.”
