Cotool event page · Jul 2026
Cotool published a Black Hat USA 2026 event page inviting security leaders to meetings, demos, and breakfast sessions in Las Vegas.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Cotool is a 2025-founded, San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup building an AI-native SecOps platform that turns security work into natural-language agents for detection, response, threat hunting, and automated investigations.
Primary product
AI agent harness / AI operating system for security operations teams
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Computer and Network Security
Sub-industry
AI-native security operations automation / SecOps agents
Offices
2130 Bay St., San Francisco, CA 94123, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
enterprise subscription
demo-led enterprise sales
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$7.4M
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2026
Latest amount
$7.4M
Mar 2026 · Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Aug 2025 · 515 Ventures
Apr 2025 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CTO
Co-founder, CPO & Head of AI
Founding Product Engineer
Work & culture
Practitioner-first and security-engineer-centric, with a strong emphasis on speed, reducing alert fatigue, eliminating repetitive work, and giving defenders machine-speed workflows without forcing rigid vendor processes.
Compensation
Public hiring signals point to competitive salary and equity, plus healthcare, dental, and vision coverage, unlimited PTO, team off-sites twice a year, and an unlimited token budget.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity
Healthcare coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Unlimited PTO
Team off-sites twice a year
Unlimited token budget
Beautiful office in San Francisco
Product & market
Pricing
Public pricing is not disclosed; sales appear demo-led and enterprise-oriented.
Differentiators
- —Natural-language agent creation for SecOps workflows
- —No-code builder that turns investigations into reusable automations
- —Evaluation harness with run tracking and version control
- —Agent memory that adapts and improves over time
- —Human-in-the-loop controls for alerts and response actions
- —Works across existing SIEM/EDR/identity/cloud/SaaS tools without migrations
- —Unopinionated architecture that lets teams encode their own workflows
- —BlueBench-style real-intrusion evaluation focus
Technology
Anthropic Claude
OpenAI GPT-5
GitHub
Slack
Jira
Okta
AWS
Microsoft Graph
PagerDuty
Tines
Wiz
Datadog
Sumo Logic
VirusTotal
OpenCTI
MISP
Elasticsearch
ClickHouse
Semgrep
RBAC
Customers
Ramp
EliseAI
Competitors
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR/XSIAM
Splunk SOAR
Torq
Dropzone AI
Fig Security Operations Resilience
LogCraft Detection Engineering
Microsoft Copilot for Security
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Sub-$1M ARR; the most concrete public estimate found is about $330K ARR, while other directory estimates are higher.
Estimated monthly visits
2.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Cotool blog · Apr 2026
Cotool introduced BlueBench, a real-intrusion benchmark for defensive security operations, and reported results from evaluating frontier models on macOS intrusion data.
Cotool blog · Mar 2026
Cotool announced a $7.4M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from WndrCo, Y Combinator, and angels from security and infrastructure companies.
Axios · Mar 2026
Axios independently reported Cotool's $7.4M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and framed the deal as part of a broader investor push into cybersecurity startups.
Homebrew · Mar 2026
Homebrew highlighted Cotool's early customer traction and reiterated that the company was already in production with teams such as Ramp and EliseAI.
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