Qevlar AI was founded in 2023 in Paris by AI engineers Ahmed Achchak and Hamza Sayah to attack one of the SOC's most painful bottlenecks: the slow, manual investigation of security alerts. Security teams routinely face floods of alerts they cannot fully investigate, leading to missed threats, analyst burnout, and slow response. Qevlar builds autonomous AI agents that take over the investigation workflow end to end, enriching alerts with context, correlating signals across sources, and reaching conclusions on their own rather than handing analysts a partial draft to finish.
The company's agentic approach is designed to reason like a seasoned analyst, pulling in the data needed to determine whether an alert represents a real threat and why. Qevlar reports that this can compress investigations that previously took hours down to roughly three minutes, dramatically expanding the number of alerts a team can fully resolve. Just as importantly, the platform is positioned to move organizations beyond perpetual alert firefighting toward organization-level security insights, helping leaders understand systemic risk and the effectiveness of their defenses.
Qevlar emphasizes autonomy and depth: its agents are built to complete investigations without constant human prompting, while still producing transparent, reviewable reasoning so analysts can trust and audit the outcomes. This makes it suitable both for internal enterprise SOCs and for managed security service providers that must investigate at high volume across many clients.
In March 2026 Qevlar announced a $30 million round (approximately €25.8 million) jointly led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital International, with participation from EQT Ventures, building on an earlier raise that had brought total commitments to $14 million. The funding drew strategic angels including Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel, Dataiku CEO Florian Douetteau, and former Google DeepMind product director Mehdi Ghissassi. Qevlar counts large enterprises such as Mercedes-Benz and Sodexo, and MSSPs including Orange Cyberdefense, ECI, and Atos, among its customers.