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Artemis

Horizontal AI
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5 risks

Artemis is positioning as a series a horizontal AI infrastructure play, building foundational capabilities around knowledge graphs.

artemissecurity.com
series aGenAI: coreNew York, United States
$55.0Mraised
9KB analyzed14 quotesUpdated May 1, 2026
Event Timeline
Why This Matters Now

As agentic architectures emerge as the dominant build pattern, Artemis is positioned to benefit from enterprise demand for autonomous workflow solutions. The timing aligns with broader market readiness for AI systems that can execute multi-step tasks without human intervention.

Artemis is the first protective layer that is AI-native

Core Advantage

An AI-native platform that builds and maintains a continuously updating, environment-specific model of the customer's organization and automatically transforms emerging threat intelligence into ready-to-review, tailored detections plus autonomous multi-source investigations and response actions.

Build SignalsFull pattern analysis

Knowledge Graphs

3 quotes
high

Artemis appears to build and maintain a continuously updated relationship model across entities (users, agents, assets, behaviors, org structure). This matches a permission- and context-aware graph/KG that supports entity linking, cross-domain correlation, and environment-specific reasoning.

What This Enables

Emerging pattern with potential to unlock new application categories.

Time Horizon12-24 months
Primary RiskLimited data on long-term viability in this context.

Natural-Language-to-Code

2 quotes
high

The product converts natural language inputs (questions, threat reports) into executable detection logic/rules tuned to the customer's environment — effectively translating NL into detection code/rules that are reviewable and deployable.

What This Enables

Emerging pattern with potential to unlock new application categories.

Time Horizon12-24 months
Primary RiskLimited data on long-term viability in this context.

Agentic Architectures

3 quotes
high

Artemis uses autonomous agent-like processes that perform multi-step investigations, call tools/data sources, ask clarifying questions, correlate telemetry, and produce actionable cases — a classic agentic orchestration pattern with tool use and autonomous decision steps.

What This Enables

Full workflow automation across legal, finance, and operations. Creates new category of "AI employees" that handle complex multi-step tasks.

Time Horizon12-24 months
Primary RiskReliability concerns in high-stakes environments may slow enterprise adoption.

Continuous-learning Flywheels

3 quotes
high

The product describes iterative, continuous model/detection improvement driven by incoming telemetry and threat intel: closed-loop behavior where operational feedback, telemetry, and new intel feed automated detection generation and tuning.

What This Enables

Winner-take-most dynamics in categories where well-executed. Defensibility against well-funded competitors.

Time Horizon24+ months
Primary RiskRequires critical mass of users to generate meaningful signal.
Model Architecture
Compound AI System

Agent-first orchestration where agents coordinate retrieval from multiple telemetry sources, consult the environment model, and synthesize detections/investigations; however, no evidence that multiple LLMs are orchestrated or that models call one another.

Inference Optimization
federated telemetry / agent-side preprocessing to reduce central ingestion and costagent orchestration (runtime steps executed by agents rather than a single monolithic model call)
Team
Shachar Hirshberg• Co-Founder, CEOhigh technical

Cybersecurity product veteran; led product for Amazon GuardDuty; early employee at Demisto; engineering leader at Palo Alto Networks; served as an officer in the IDF's Intelligence Corps; MBA from Harvard Business School

Previously: Amazon GuardDuty, Demisto, Palo Alto Networks

Dan Shiebler• Co-Founder, CTOhigh technical

AI/ML expert; built and scaled large-scale AI systems; led AI/ML at Abnormal AI; previously spent five years at Twitter shaping ML for ads; PhD in AI (University of Oxford)

Previously: Abnormal AI, Twitter

Founder-Market Fit

The founders have direct, relevant experience in both AI/ML and cybersecurity product leadership, including cloud threat detection and scalable AI systems, which aligns well with Artemis's AI-native protection platform.

Engineering-heavyML expertiseDomain expertise
Considerations
  • • Public information shows only two founders; potential risk of limited engineering bench and scaling capabilities beyond the founders.
  • • Lack of disclosed hires, advisors, or investors in the available content may obscure broader team and funding quality.
Business Model
Go-to-Market

product led

Target: enterprise

Pricing

usage based

Enterprise focus
Sales Motion

hybrid

Distribution Advantages
  • • AI-native architecture enabling deeper telemetry and environment-specific detections
  • • Integrated telemetry across identity, cloud, endpoint, network, and SaaS
  • • Threat intel at machine speed and autonomous investigation capabilities
Customer Evidence

• Claims of being trusted by top companies worldwide

• No explicit logos or named case studies provided

Product
Stage:general availability
Differentiating Features
AI-native architecture designed to adapt detections to each organization's environmentAutonomous agents for investigation across the entire environment with natural language interactionsComprehensive environment intelligence that combines multiple telemetry domains and business context
Integrations
Ability to augment or replace existing SIEMsMITRE ATT&CK mapping for coverage visualization
Primary Use Case

AI-native threat detection and response platform providing environment-specific detections and end-to-end incident handling across cloud, identity, network, endpoint, and SaaS

Novel Approaches
Threat-intel-to-detection synthesis pipelineNovelty: 7/10Compound AI Systems

Automating the mapping from raw threat reports to runnable, environment-specific detections dramatically shortens the intel->coverage cycle, which they claim goes from weeks to minutes.

Competitive Context

Artemis operates in a competitive landscape that includes Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel / Defender, CrowdStrike Falcon.

Splunk

Differentiation: Artemis claims an AI-native architecture built from the ground up that generates environment-specific detections, performs autonomous investigations, and reduces ingestion cost through federated telemetry; Splunk is a legacy SIEM with heavy ingestion costs, manual rule tuning, and often requires expert query authors and professional services.

Microsoft Sentinel / Defender

Differentiation: Artemis emphasizes automated, machine-speed conversion of threat intel into environment-specific detections, natural-language investigative agents, and a continuous living model of relationships across identity/cloud/endpoint/SaaS; Microsoft offers broad platform and native integrations but is positioned as a general-purpose cloud security stack rather than an AI-first autonomous detection layer focused on adaptive, per-customer detection generation.

CrowdStrike Falcon

Differentiation: CrowdStrike is endpoint-first EDR/XDR; Artemis claims cross-domain correlation across identity, cloud, network, endpoint and SaaS with AI-generated multi-stage attack detections and autonomous investigation that stitches evidence across sources rather than relying primarily on endpoint telemetry.

Notable Findings

Built AI-native from day one — not an AI bolt-on: they claim a closed-loop pipeline that goes from threat intel (natural language) → automated mapping to MITRE ATT&CK → environment-specific detection generation → autonomous investigation/response. That implies model-driven synthesis of detection logic plus orchestration to deploy and validate rules without long manual tuning.

Federated telemetry / intelligent ingestion to control cost and increase signal: the marketing emphasis on 'federated telemetry' and 'intelligent, federated telemetry' suggests local/edge feature extraction or selective forwarding (pre-aggregation, filtering, or sketching) to avoid shipping full high-cardinality logs to a central lake — a non-trivial engineering tradeoff between fidelity, latency, billing and privacy.

Living, continuously-updating organization model (asset/identity/AI-agent graph): Artemis repeatedly touts environment intelligence that maps users, assets, behaviors, org structure and even AI agents. Practically this looks like a multi-domain entity graph that enables cross-domain correlation (identity + cloud + endpoint + network + SaaS) and contextual scoring — a graph-of-everything used to parameterize detections.

Agentic automation that 'acts' (not chat): they promote agents that write detections, ask follow-ups during investigations, correlate evidence across domains and produce actionable cases. Technically this implies LLM-driven agents + tool-execution layer (query generation, orchestration across sources, follow-up planning) plus guardrails to constrain actions safely.

Threat-intel-to-detection synthesis within minutes: converting external TTP descriptions into tested, environment-specific detections in minutes requires mapping abstract TTPs to local telemetry primitives, selecting features, generating queries (SPL/KQL/etc.) and running backtests — a pipeline that does program synthesis + test/validation automatically.

Risk Factors
Overclaiminghigh severity
Wrapper Riskmedium severity
Feature, Not Productmedium severity
No Clear Moatmedium severity
What This Changes

If Artemis achieves its technical roadmap, it could become foundational infrastructure for the next generation of AI applications. Success here would accelerate the timeline for downstream companies to build reliable, production-grade AI products. Failure or pivot would signal continued fragmentation in the AI tooling landscape.

Source Evidence(14 quotes)
“AI-native protection platform”
“AI-powered detections”
“AI agents”
“Ask what you need to know in natural language”
“AI Detection Engineer”
“Threat intel at machine speed”