Twine Security was founded in 2024 by cybersecurity veterans Benny Porat (CEO), Nadav Erez, Omri Green, and Justin Woody, all formerly of cyber unicorn Claroty, to tackle what the company calls the security execution gap. Security teams are flooded with tools that identify problems and generate tasks, but they lack the people to actually do all the work those tools surface. Twine's approach is to introduce AI 'digital employees', autonomous AI workers that don't just advise or alert, but execute real cybersecurity tasks from start to finish alongside human staff.
The company's first digital employee, named Alex, focuses on identity and access management, one of the most labor-intensive and error-prone areas of security operations. Alex learns and understands an organization's specific environment, then proactively takes on IAM tasks, completing them end to end rather than handing a checklist back to overworked analysts. The vision is for digital employees to absorb repetitive, high-volume operational work so human teams can focus on judgment-intensive priorities.
What differentiates Twine's framing is the emphasis on autonomous execution and outcomes. Many AI security tools surface insights or draft recommendations; Twine aims to close the loop by actually performing the tasks, which requires deep integration with identity systems and careful guardrails so the digital employee acts safely and accountably within an organization's policies.
Twine announced $12 million in seed funding co-led by Ten Eleven Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital, with additional backing from angel investors including the founders of Wiz; some sources put total funding at around $17 million. The company has earned notable early recognition, including being named a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Cool Vendors in Identity-First Security report, a finalist for the RSAC 2025 Innovation Sandbox, a Black Hat USA 2025 Startup Spotlight finalist, a Forbes Cloud100 Rising Star, and a KuppingerCole 2025 Rising Star in IAM. Twine represents a bet that the future of security operations includes AI coworkers that do the work, not just point at it.