MixMode delivers a self-learning, self-supervised AI platform (described as leveraging DARPA-defined "Third Wave" AI) to surface both known and novel attacks as well as misconfigurations and other vulnerabilities. Its solution can be applied to public cloud and on-prem environments and is built to operate at Fortune 500 scale. The company serves large enterprises across industries and works closely with channel partners to expand use cases and deployment. MixMode's technology is led by CTO and chief scientist Dr. Igor Mezic, who has prior DARPA and government project experience. The platform addresses use cases including NTA, UEBA, NDR and SIEM, and the company emphasizes reducing false positives and improving security-team efficiency. MixMode is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA and cites that roughly 80% of successful cyberattacks are novel, motivating its self-learning approach. MixMode provides an AI-driven network traffic analytics platform that ingests multiple streams of data including network data, public cloud data and feeds from endpoint, firewall and SIEM tools. The MixMode Network Traffic Analytics product leverages 'Third Wave' AI and an advanced unsupervised learning model to surface major security issues and to predict future network activity. The platform is designed for security analysts and integrates contextual data from existing security tools. MixMode intends to use its recent funding to expand the AI-powered analytics platform and to accelerate growth of its worldwide network of customers and partners. The company is based in Santa Barbara and maintains an additional office in San Diego. MixMode builds a context-aware, AI-driven network monitoring platform that aggregates diverse telemetry to identify and reduce false positive security alerts. The system factors in time-of-day, device ownership, and regular data patterns to distinguish routine activity from threats; the company says it has filed multiple patents on the approach. Igor Mezic, a UC Santa Barbara professor with DARPA-context-aware AI experience, joined as CTO and chief scientist. MixMode (formerly PacketSled) is led by CEO John Keister and operates from offices in San Diego and Santa Barbara with about 15 employees and headquarters in Sorrento Valley. The company says its near-term goal is to scale the platform to handle many multiples of the size of its current customers. Financially, MixMode has raised $11.5 million to date and reports additional capital in SEC filings.

Total raised

$49M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Mar 2022