AI Security Firm Raises $140 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation

Torq, an AI-driven security operations platform, completed a $140 million Series D funding round led by Merlin Ventures on 11th January, 2026. The round brings the company's total valuation to $1.2 billion and total funding to $332 million. Existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners and Insight Ventures Partners had participated.

Torq builds AI agents that automate security operations workflows such as alert triage, investigations, and response handling, at enterprise scale. The platform is designed for self-service deployment without extensive professional services, allowing security teams to configure autonomous agents for tasks like phishing detection and alert prioritization. The company reports that its agents now manage millions of security actions autonomously within Fortune 500 security operations centers.

Torq positions itself as a post-legacy approach. Rather than adding automation layers on top of existing systems, the platform was built from first principles around agentic AI, systems that can autonomously handle complex, multi-step workflows without constant human intervention. This architectural difference allows the platform to scale alert handling from thousands to millions of security actions without proportional increases in team size.