Crogl
$25M Series A Jan-2025 (Menlo Ventures + Tola Capital + Pelion); founded by Monzy Merza (ex-Splunk CSO). 'Knowledge engine' that does autonomous investigation across SIEM data. Pitched as the AI analyst pair for security teams.
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At a glance
- Type
- Autonomous SOC investigation copilot vendor fix
- Tier
- T3
- Created
- 2024 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Free single-user workstation install ($0, 30-day full-feature trial); Enterprise custom vendor fix
- Funding
- $30M total raised (Menlo Ventures, Tola Capital, S3 Ventures) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: autonomous SOC investigation across SIEM data
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Founder Monzy Merza brings Splunk distribution + SOC credibility; Menlo + Tola backing; strong narrative for analyst-shortage market.
Cons
Early-stage closed product; competing with Dropzone in same niche.
Claims & capabilities
$25M Series A Jan-2025 (Menlo + Tola + Pelion); founder ex-Splunk CSO; investigates 100k+ alerts/day per design target
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- not applicable — wrong section
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- not applicable — wrong section
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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Sources (16 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Autonomous SOC investigation copilot vendor
- What it does & what's distinct $25M Series A Jan-2025 (Menlo Ventures + Tola Capital + Pelion); founded by Monzy Merza … vendor
- Claims / benefits $25M Series A Jan-2025 (Menlo + Tola + Pelion); founder ex-Splunk CSO; investigates 100k… vendor
- Created 2024 (founded) vendor
- Funding $30M total raised (Menlo Ventures, Tola Capital, S3 Ventures) vendor
- Pricing Free single-user workstation install ($0, 30-day full-feature trial); Enterprise custom vendor
- HQ Austin vendor
- Founders / pedigree Monzy Merza (CEO; ex-Splunk CSO and Distinguished Engineer) vendor
- Optimised for autonomous SOC investigation across SIEM data vendor
- Pros Founder Monzy Merza brings Splunk distribution + SOC credibility; Menlo + Tola backing; … vendor
- Cons Early-stage closed product; competing with Dropzone in same niche. vendor
- Project & sources crogl.com/ vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus local vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
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