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Kindo

kindo.ai

Kindo provides enterprise AI agents that execute security, DevOps, and IT operations across controlled environments.

HQVenice, California, United States
Employees51-200
Funding$27.6m
1 active role
Profile 8mo agoJobs checked 3d ago
Specialization
Security
Business
Agent Toolingand 1 more business values
  • Software Applications
Market
Software Development
Ecosystem
Agents
Customers
Enterprises
More details
Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Agents
Business
Agent Tooling, Software Applications
Specialization
Security
Market
Software Development
Customers
Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software, On Premise Software
Revenue models
Not classified
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Series A
Reported funding amount
Not classified

About

Kindo builds an AI-native agent harness and automation platform for enterprise security, DevOps, and IT teams. Its agents analyze context, execute multi-step workflows across existing systems, and verify outcomes, with deployment options spanning on-premises, self-managed cloud, and SOC 2 SaaS.

Market

Kindo competes in enterprise AI-native technical-operations automation across SecOps, DevOps, and ITOps. It positions itself as an agent harness and control plane rather than a chatbot, enabling autonomous multi-step actions across existing infrastructure while supporting multiple models and on-premises deployment. Compared with more security-centered SOAR and AI-SOC competitors such as Tines, Torq, Swimlane, Cortex XSOAR, and Splunk SOAR, Kindo differentiates through broader cross-domain technical-operations coverage, model choice, and deployment control.

Target Customers

Kindo targets enterprise SecOps, DevOps, and ITOps teams, especially security, development, and IT engineers at organizations with complex technical environments. Its strongest fit is regulated or security-sensitive enterprises that need self-managed, on-premises, or tightly governed AI deployments.

At a Glance

Problem

Security, DevOps, and IT operations teams are overwhelmed by operational bloat, brittle point tools, alert fatigue, and fragmented context spread across repositories, logs, cloud APIs, ticketing systems, SIEMs, and job schedulers. Kindo targets the gap between detecting a problem and actually resolving it: operators need to investigate, decide, and execute across complex environments without relying on slow, manually maintained scripts and static runbooks.

The clearest use case is adaptive incident response and root-cause analysis. A Kindo agent can be triggered by a monitoring or security alert, gather logs, metrics, deployment history, cloud events, and threat intelligence, then identify likely causes and recommend or execute remediation. The economic value is reduced analyst and on-call toil, faster containment, fewer repeat incidents, and tool consolidation; Kindo reports that customers can eliminate up to 80% of legacy tools, while Aireon’s CISO reported a $47 return for every $1 spent.

Product / Service

Kindo is an AI-native control plane and agent harness for enterprise technical operations. It provides agents that analyze context, take action across connected systems, and verify outcomes, with domain-specific applications for SecOps, DevOps, and ITOps. The platform connects to tools such as GitHub, cloud platforms, CI/CD systems, Jira, ServiceNow, Datadog, Splunk, and Kubernetes, allowing operators to use natural-language conversations, workflows, and existing runbooks rather than replacing their toolchain.

The delivery model is designed for security-sensitive enterprises: Kindo is available as SOC 2 SaaS, self-managed in a customer’s cloud, or fully on premises. It is model-agnostic, supports 26-plus LLMs, and can use Kindo’s domain-tuned Deep Hat model. Policy-aware, human-in-the-loop execution, DLP, credential isolation, secure sandboxes, audit logging, and outcome verification are intended to make autonomous action safer and explainable while preserving control over data, models, and infrastructure.

Market

Kindo operates at the intersection of enterprise AI infrastructure, agentic workflow automation, AI security, and SecOps/SOAR. Its distinctive position is the use of adaptive agents to execute technical operations across security, infrastructure, and IT, rather than merely summarize alerts or run fixed playbooks. The competitive set therefore includes traditional SOAR and runbook automation as well as horizontal workflow platforms; Kindo’s own materials contrast its adaptive incident-response agents with static SOAR workflows, while G2 lists Slack, Smartsheet, and monday AI Work Platform among generic Kindo alternatives. Those products are broader workflow substitutes, not necessarily direct technical-operations equivalents.

Kindo is not pre-revenue based on the available evidence. The company raised a $7 million seed round in 2023 and $20.6 million in 2024, alongside its acquisition of WhiteRabbitNeo, which became the Deep Hat model. In a July 2025 company announcement, Kindo reported a threefold increase in active enterprise deployments in Q2, millions of monthly secure agent actions, deployments across multiple Fortune 1000 environments, more than 400% year-over-year CARR growth, 300% net revenue retention, and zero customer churn. These figures are company-reported rather than independently verified, but they indicate meaningful enterprise traction rather than a pre-commercial product.

Founders & Leadership

Ron WilliamsFounder
CEO & Founder
Bryan VannFounder
CTO & Co-Founder
Tony WongFounder
SVP of Services & Co-Founder
Charlie HulcherFounder
Founding Engineer / Co-Founder
Mathew VargheseChief Revenue Officer
Ken KatoChief Security Officer
Jeffrey Sefa-BoakyeVP of Customer Strategy
Brian PattonVP of Finance

Funding History

2023-09
Seed$7M

Riot Ventures

2024-07
Series A$20.6M

Drive Capital

Recent News

2026-07-20partnership
Why Kindo and Resolute Consulting Group are partnering

Kindo partnered with Resolute Consulting Group to combine Kindo’s AI execution platform with RCG’s operational expertise. The collaboration is intended to help organizations deploy governed AI safely in customer infrastructure, including regulated and financial environments.

2025-12-07product_launch
AI Vulnerability Management: 5 Automated Workflows (2026)

Kindo published five AI-powered vulnerability-management workflows covering CVE triage, zero-day response, and end-of-life tracking. The workflows integrate with Jira, Nessus, and Qualys.

2025-08-05other
Black Hat USA 2025 – Summary of Vendor Announcements (Part 1)

SecurityWeek reported Kindo.ai product updates including chat and AI-managed tool calling, native and automatically generated integrations, dynamic parameter support, and a new AI model. The coverage also noted that Kindo’s WhiteRabbitNeo DevSecOps LLM had been renamed Deep Hat.

Active Roles

1
Hybrid - Venice; Remote/Engineering/79d ago

Business Model

Kindo monetizes an enterprise software platform through demo-led commercial engagements, offering its agentic operations product as SOC 2 SaaS or as self-managed cloud and on-premises deployments. Public pricing is not disclosed in the retrieved materials.

Products

Kindo AI-Native Agent HarnessAction ChatAction BotKindo AgentsDeep Hat uncensored cybersecurity modelKindo public API

Customers

Aireon

Tech Stack

Domain-tuned DevSecOps LLM26+ third-party LLMsModel Context Protocol (MCP)KubernetesCloud APIsCI/CD pipelinesITSM ticketingSIEM platformsJob schedulersOn-premises GPU infrastructure

Competitors

Tines
Torq
Swimlane
Cortex XSOAR
Splunk SOAR

Key Investors

Drive Capital, Riot Ventures, RRE Ventures, Marlinspike Partners, Eniac Ventures, New Era Ventures, Sunset Ventures