Why we invested in TandemTrace: Disrupting SecOps using AI Agents

We’re excited to announce our investment in TandemTrace, a Madrid-based cybersecurity startup that is transforming how organizations defend themselves in an era of AI-powered attacks. 

Adara Ventures co-led the seed round alongside Acurio Ventures, with the participation of Addendum Capital, supporting TandemTrace’s mission to empower modern Security Operations Centers (SOCs) with intelligent, autonomous AI agents.

The Challenge: Humans only 

The cybersecurity threat landscape is evolving rapidly. Today’s attackers are leveraging AI, zero-days, and cloud-native strategies to conduct more sophisticated and targeted campaigns. Meanwhile, SOCs are buckling under the pressure of alert overload, false positives, hidden threats, and a critical shortage of skilled analysts.

Legacy approaches rely on slow, reactive tools that simply cannot keep pace with today's threat landscape. Even with excellent automation products, defenders can’t win the “war” against adversaries, as they outnumber them with significantly more resources. 

Enter TandemTrace: AI Agents that never sleep

Founded by Israeli cybersecurity veteran and serial entrepreneur Almog Ohayon, TandemTrace is building the AI-powered security dream team – a suite of intelligent agents capable of investigating and responding to threats autonomously, 24/7. 

Ohayon previously founded Javelin Networks, a startup focused on internal threat defense and ransomware prevention, acquired by Symantec in 2018. After leading the R&D at Symantec’s Israeli operations, Ohayon launched TandemTrace to address what he saw as the next evolution in cybersecurity: autonomous threat detection and response.

TandemTrace’s platform utilizes AI agents to identify hidden threats, investigate incidents, and autonomously contain breaches 24/7. The platform seamlessly integrates with existing security infrastructures, drastically reducing Mean Time to Detection (MTTD) and Mean Time to Response (MTTR), while easing the burden on human teams. 

The result is a fundamentally new approach to cybersecurity operations. Humans and AI can work in tandem to secure infrastructure and data, faster and more effectively than ever before.

The Adara View: The age of autonomous enterprise defense

TandemTrace’s vision of AI-powered, autonomous security operations is not just timely, but an existential necessity. The technology is designed to scale alongside evolving threats, growing smarter with every interaction and enabling a proactive, 24/7 approach to threat hunting. By detecting "unknown" threats that other systems might miss, TandemTrace ensures continuous vigilance and unmatched protection.

At Adara Ventures, we believe that AI agents will play a crucial role as co-defenders in the fight against increasingly automated threats. We’re proud to support Almog and the entire TandemTrace team on their journey to democratize elite cybersecurity capabilities and bring AI agents to SOCs everywhere.

Learn more about TandemTrace: https://tandemtrace.ai