{"id":233228,"date":"2026-01-11T21:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/233228\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:35:14","slug":"israeli-cyber-startup-torq-raises-140-million-at-1-2-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/233228\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli cyber startup Torq raises $140 million at $1.2 billion valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Jan 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Israeli cyber startup Torq said on Sunday \u200bit raised $140 million at a $1.2 \u200cbillion valuation, as it looks to speed \u200cup adoption of its artificial intelligence-driven security operations center (SOC) platform and expand into the U.S. market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Torq, \u2060which uses \u200cAI to provide security protection for companies, has now \u200draised a total of $332 million since its inception in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;This funding accelerates our \u200bmission to define and dominate \u200cthe AI SOC market,&#8221; said Ofer Smadari, CEO and co-founder, Torq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The company said its customer base includes multinationals including Marriott, PepsiCo, Procter &amp; \u2060Gamble, Siemens, Uber \u200band Virgin Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The \u200blatest funding round was led by Merlin Ventures, with participation \u200dfrom all \u2060existing investors, such as Evolution Equity Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, \u2060Notable Capital, and Greenfield Partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by \u200cRuchika Khanna in Bengaluru, Editing \u200cby Louise Heavens)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Israeli cyber startup Torq said on Sunday \u200bit raised $140 million at a $1.2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,126660,43,126658,40,38,41,39,126659],"class_list":{"0":"post-233228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-merlin-ventures","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-security-operations-center","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-torq"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}