Dropzone AI

https://www.dropzone.ai/

Autonomous SOC analyst agent — investigates Tier-1 SIEM/EDR alerts end-to-end. $16.85M Series A Aug-2024 (Theory Ventures + Decibel). Founded by Edward Wu (ex-ExtraHop). Targets the 60%-of-alerts-go-uninvestigated problem.

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At a glance

Tier
T3
Created
2023 (founded) vendor fix
Latest release
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License
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GitHub
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Pricing
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Freshness
2026-10-28 fix
Layer
agent-infra repo fix
Licensing
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Deployment locus
cloud vendor fix
Platform vs product
product vendor fix
Compliance
soc2-type2 vendor fix

When to use

Optimised for: autonomous Tier-1 SOC alert triage

Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section

Pros & cons

Pros

Strongest pure-play autonomous-SOC narrative; Theory Ventures lead; immediate analyst-shortage market fit.

Cons

Closed product; outputs gated by underlying SIEM/EDR integrations; enterprise sales-cycle constrained.

Claims & capabilities

$16.85M Series A Aug-2024 (Theory + Decibel); founder ex-ExtraHop; production at Fortune-500 SOCs

Technical surface

API surface
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Backend storage
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Deployment
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Embedding model
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Multi-tenancy
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MCP
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A2A
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OpenTelemetry
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  1. 2026-10-28
    • Funding / ownership “$16.85M Series A Aug-2024 (Theory + Decibel)” → “$37M Series B Jul-2025 (led by Theory Ventures; Madrona, Decibel, Pioneer Square Labs, IQT); $57.4M total” source
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