Dropzone AI’s Mission
About Dropzone AI
Attackers are scaling with AI. Most defenders are still constrained by human capacity. We're here to close that gap. We build AI agents that investigate alerts, hunt threats, and respond to attacks so your organization can rapidly adapt your defenses in an increasingly dangerous threat landscape.
$57.4M
total funding
300+
deployments worldwide
14
U.S. patents related to AI security agents
66
NPS score nearly 2x industry average
Gartner Cool Vendor for the Modern SOC
Dropzone AI’s Vision
Why Dropzone AI Exists
Dropzone AI founder and CEO Edward Wu spent eight years building the detection engine at ExtraHop, a leading network detection and response (NDR) vendor. He saw firsthand that better detections alone would not solve the asymmetry problem in cybersecurity. Security teams were drowning in alerts, and the limits of human analysts had become the limits of defense.
Dropzone AI was founded to break that constraint. The company builds AI agents that work alongside human defenders, investigating security alerts, responding to emerging threats, and hunting attackers at a scale that human teams alone cannot sustain.
The vision: human strategy, machine scale. Defenders set the direction. AI agents execute at speed and consistency human-only teams cannot match.
Leadership
Edward Wu
Founder + CEO
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Amit Patel
CRO
Anne Gotay
VP of Growth
Brett Candon
VP of International Sales
Bri Hatch
Head of Infrastructure and Security
Shashi Nair
Head of Channel
Jenny Fu
Head of Finance and Operations
Chris Nisbeth
Head of Information Security
Meet the Team
Deep technologists at the intersection of AI, security, and product development.
Patrick Duffy
R&D
Alex Burner
R&D
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Eric Hammerle
R&D
Changhwan Oh
R&D
Michael Buono
R&D
Colin Phillips
R&D
Andrew Jerry
R&D
Alison Hammerand
Sales
Tyson Supasatit
Marketing
Guy Raz
Sales
Steve Mortell
Sales
Patricia Temples
R&D
Tyler Hoyt
R&D
Chantel Pszenny
Marketing
Chris Abella
Sales
John Silva
R&D
Josh Sanders
Sales
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Ryan Cate
Sales
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Leon Miro
R&D
Tony Huinker
Sales
Joe Choi
R&D
Michael Buchanan
Customer Success
Kim Fischer
Marketing
Christopher Bailey
R&D
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Thaddeus McCollough
Sales
Matt Hulse
R&D
Harlan Elam
R&D
Dan Bridges
International Sales
Chase Christensen
Sales
Shaleena Reyersbach
G&A
Max Weber
Sales
Eric Egger
Sales
Matt Dougherty
R&D
Brandon Macer
Sales
Caleb Riggs
R&D
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Teri Valdez
Sales
Taylor Beck
Customer Success
Brent Moore
Sales
Matthias Arnason
Senior DevOps Engineer
Investors
Meet our investors
Oliver Friedrichs
Founder and CEO of Pangea Security, Founder and former CEO of Phantom Cyber
Jon Oberheide
Co-founder and former CTO of Duo Security
Jesse Rothstein
Co-founder and CTO of ExtraHop Networks
Garrett Held
Chief Information Security Officer at Carta
Joshua Scott
Head of Security at Postman
Anshu Gupta
Ex CISO at Fast
Industry Recognition
Gartner® Recognition
Dropzone AI is proud to be a Gartner Cool Vendor for the Modern SOC 2024
Gartner® Hype Cycle Inclusion
RSA Innovation Sandbox
Top 10 Finalist among all cybersecurity innovations
Intelligent Applications 40
Chosen by 70+ venture capital firms as leading AI application
Rising in Cyber 2025
Selected by 150 CISOs as one of 30 most promising cybersecurity startups
Rising in Cyber 2025
Selected by 150 CISOs as one of 30 most promising cybersecurity startups
Top InfoSec Innovator
Most Innovative AI Security Solution
Most Innovative AI SOC Analyst
