{"id":402373,"date":"2026-01-12T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402373\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:10:08","slug":"israeli-cyber-startup-torq-raises-140-million-at-1-2-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402373\/","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":402374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,194156,194154,74,194155],"class_list":["post-402373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-merlin-ventures","tag-security-operations-center","tag-technology","tag-torq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}