Crogl, armed with $30M, says it’s built an AI ‘Iron Man suit’ for security analysts

AI agents are marching across the world of IT, and on Thursday a startup called Crogl is debuting its contribution to the field: an autonomous assistant that helps cybersecurity researchers analyze daily network alerts to find and fix security incidents. The assistant — described by Crogl’s CEO and co-founder Monzy Merza as an “Iron Man suit” for researchers — has been in deployment already with a number of large enterprises and organizations. Alongside launching the product out of private beta today, the startup also said that it has raised $30 million in funding. The funding is coming in two tranches: a $25 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures, and a $5 million seed led by Tola Capital. Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Crogl will use the capital to continue building its product and customer base. Enterprises today have access to hundreds of security tools, including those that help parse and remediate alerts from security software. Sometimes it feels as if there are nearly as many ... Read full article.