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$140 million Series D. $1.2 billion valuation. A Nasdaq takeover. Trevor loose in Manhattan.
It’s been a week.
From Bloomberg breaking the news to our Torq skeleton on screen through Times Square, Torq’s unicorn moment played out across every major business and cybersecurity outlet — and a few NYC sidewalks. But beyond the headlines (and the chaos), the coverage revealed something bigger: the market has officially declared that the AI SOC is the future of security operations.
Here’s the full recap.
The Headlines
Bloomberg kicked off the week with an exclusive, and the coverage snowballed from there. Over 100 global media placements later, the message was clear: the AI SOC era has arrived, and Torq is leading it.
Bloomberg: “The Israeli cybersecurity startup Torq is planning to announce Sunday that it has closed a $140 million funding round, raising its valuation to $1.2 billion.”
Forbes: “As new entrants crowd into the space with ambitious roadmaps and evolving terminology, Torq increasingly functions as the reference point others are measured against. In that sense, Torq is more or less the de facto leader of the AI SOC space. “
Reuters: “This funding accelerates our mission to define and dominate the AI SOC market,” said Ofer Smadari, CEO and co-founder, Torq.”
SiliconANGLE: “Rather than using simple scripted playbooks that run the same steps every time, Torq uses AI and multi-agent systems that can adapt to changing threat contexts, triage alerts, enrich data with context and decide on next actions autonomously.”
TechRepublic: “‘Our agents are now deeply embedded in the SOCs of Fortune 500 leaders like Marriott, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Siemens, Uber, and Virgin Atlantic. They are running millions of agentic security actions every single day — handling everything from complex investigations to rapid response,’ said Ofer Smadari, CEO & Co-Founder, Torq.”
SecurityWeek: “‘Torq is redefining security operations. They’ve fused automation and human judgment into a new AI SOC Platform built for asymmetric threats and real-world scale,’ Merlin Ventures managing partner Shay Michel said.”
Unicorn status: official. 🦄
Read the official press release >
Read Ofer’s take on what this means for the AI SOC era >
Let’s Hear it For New York…
While the press was filing stories, Torq took over Manhattan.
The Nasdaq Tower: Yes, we put skeletons and lasers on the Nasdaq marquee in Times Square.
The New York Stock Exchange: Ofer sat down with NYSE Live to talk about Torq’s momentum.
- On the competition: “We’re fighting big competitors — and we’re winning almost 100% of those.”
- On the market: “$40 billion today, $100 billion in five years. We want to take as much as possible out of it.”
- On federal expansion: “We have a huge pipeline in the federal market. The need from federal agencies is huge.”
J.P. Morgan HQ: CEO Smadari and Merlin Ventures Managing Partner Shay Michel joined a panel at J.P. Morgan headquarters to discuss the future of AI in the SOC.
The Series D Party: You don’t hit $1.2B valuation without celebrating. The Torq team and our partners, Evolution Equity Partners, Notable Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners, and Greenfield Partners, gathered in NYC to mark the milestone.
Trevor’s NYC Adventure: Trevor, our media intern, also made the trip to New York — unauthorized and unapproved by HR. Seems like he had fun.
What’s Next For Torq
This funding accelerates three priorities:
Scaling the AI SOC.More integrations. Deeper automation. Expanded multi-agent capabilities. We’re building the infrastructure that lets security teams do more without adding headcount.
U.S. Federal market expansion. With Merlin Ventures as a partner, we’re accelerating into federal and public sector markets — bringing autonomous security operations to the agencies protecting critical infrastructure.
Growing the Torq team. We’re hiring 200+ people in 2026 across engineering, go-to-market, and customer success. If you want to build the future of security operations, join us.
This is Just the Beginning
This week validated what we’ve been building since 2020: a fundamentally different approach to security operations, built on agentic AI and Hyperautomation, and designed for enterprise scale.
The AI SOC isn’t coming. It’s here. And Torq is just getting started.
🔥 LFG.
