HiveWatch Secures $33M Series B to Accelerate ‘GSOC of the Future’
HiveWatch, the El Segundo, Calif.-based provider of physical security software, has closed a $33 million oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Anthos Capital, with participation from Harmonic Growth Partners, Across Capital and existing investors. The raise brings the company’s total financing to more than $65 million.
In a blog announcing the milestone, HiveWatch Founder and CEO Ryan Schonfeld described the funding as the beginning of “Phase 2: Scale,” positioning the company’s technology at the center of what it calls the “digital brain” of enterprise security.
Building toward the GSOC of the future
With the new funding, HiveWatch is placing its bets squarely on expanding AI-driven automation within security operations centers. “With this $33 million Series B – part of over $65 million raised to date – we're focused on accelerating our race toward the GSOC of the future,” Schonfeld told SecurityInfoWatch. “Our top priorities are continuing the aggressive development of our AI Operator capabilities, and scaling our operations to meet the incredible market demand we’re seeing. To do this, we’ll be adding to our team in El Segundo, across engineering, product, customer success, marketing and sales.”
According to the company, HiveWatch’s platform is designed to go beyond simply unifying disparate systems by creating a centralized source of intelligence that improves over time.
AI Operator at the core
The company reports that more than 90% of new customer contracts now include its AI Operator. Schonfeld explained that the tool already automates key portions of GSOC workflows.
“Today, our AI Operator can do initial alarm triage and response actions at very high volumes,” he said. “This includes the analysis of an alarm based on a customer’s standard operating procedures, classifying what has happened, resolving or escalating the alarm to a human operator, and labeling the alarm appropriately for future data analysis. This alone can automate 90% of a GSOC’s alarm response operations and has the feel of being able to spin up new GSOC operators on the fly.”
Looking ahead, HiveWatch plans to expand the AI Operator’s role to deliver what Schonfeld called “a new level of program-level intelligence and task automation that doesn’t exist today.”
Differentiating from traditional models
Schonfeld positioned HiveWatch as a departure from the prevailing GSOC model. “While traditional GSOCs rely on human operators to manually investigate every alert, HiveWatch is built on an automation-first philosophy,” he said. “Our platform can be configured to handle more than 90% of routine security events without human intervention. This isn't just about efficiency; it's about allowing human operators to focus on genuine security threats rather than administrative tasks or clearing false alarms.”
He added, “Traditional models believe that the holy grail is just having a clean and connected system, but that’s not enough. Our vision of the future is making each operator 10x more effective, through a platform that is constantly improving the more they use it.”
Scaling impact
The company also points to its reach across industries, noting that 95% of Americans have interacted with a product, service, or brand protected by HiveWatch. With the new funding, it plans to expand both its technology and workforce to support growing customer demand.
In the blog post, Schonfeld closed by writing, “Together, we’re building what comes next.”
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