Exaforce

Exaforce is a security operations startup founded in 2023 by CEO Ankur Singla and CTO Jakub Pavlik, headquartered in San Jose, California. The company sells what it calls an agentic SOC platform: a real-time security knowledge graph combined with AI agents, which it calls Exabots, designed to detect, triage, investigate, and respond to threats at machine speed, backed by a managed detection and response (MDR) service that monitors customer environments around the clock.

Exaforce has raised $200 million across two rounds in quick succession — a $75 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures, Mayfield, and Thomvest Ventures, followed roughly a year later by a $125 million Series B at a reported $725 million valuation, with participation from HarbourVest Partners, Peak XV Partners, and others. That pace of capital raising, for a company only about two years old, signals strong investor conviction in the agentic SOC thesis specifically, and puts Exaforce ahead of most rivals in the newly crowded agentic-AI-for-security-operations category on funding alone.

Because the company is pre-IPO and only two years old, independent, third-party evidence of Exaforce’s actual detection efficacy — customer-reported outcomes, red-team validation, analyst-firm evaluation — is not yet publicly available; what is verifiable right now is the funding, the founding team’s stated backgrounds, and the product concept as described in press coverage. Exaforce competes in a category that includes both venture-backed pure-plays and large SIEM incumbents adding agentic AI features of their own, so its long-term differentiation will depend on whether the knowledge-graph-plus-agents architecture demonstrably outperforms bolt-on AI features from established SOC platforms.