Nitin Agale

Founder & CEO AiStrike

Last Reviewed: September 23, 2026

Executive Summary

Nitin Agale is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of AiStrike, a San Francisco cybersecurity company that uses agentic AI to run the day-to-day work of a security operations center: triaging alerts, investigating incidents, taking response actions and tuning detections, across whatever security tools a customer already runs. He founded it in 2023 after a long stretch at Securonix, the security analytics and SIEM vendor, where he was part of the initial leadership team and later Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer. His argument is that the SIEM-centred, reactive SOC model he helped sell no longer keeps pace with AI-driven attacks. AiStrike raised a $7 million seed round led by Blumberg Capital in January 2026.

Career Highlights

• Founded AiStrike in 2023 and signs its SEC filings as Chief Executive Officer.
• Raised a $7 million seed round led by Blumberg Capital, with Runtime Ventures, Oregon Venture Fund and angel investors, announced in January 2026.
• Built the company with a leadership group drawn largely from Securonix, including co-founder and Chief Product Officer Kayzad Vanskuiwalla and Chief Technology Officer Harsh Patwardhan.
• At Securonix, led presales and customer success as the company grew from early stage to more than $25 million in revenue, then served as SVP of GTM and Marketing and Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer.

Professional Journey

Agale has worked in enterprise security for more than two decades, by AiStrike’s account, and most of that career centres on Securonix. He was part of the company’s initial leadership team and ran presales and customer success in its early years, as it grew to more than $25 million in revenue. He moved into go-to-market leadership as SVP of GTM and Marketing, then became Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, shaping product strategy and market positioning as Securonix became established in SIEM and security analytics.

He founded AiStrike in 2023, and the company’s thesis is partly a critique of the category he came from. Traditional security operations collect logs centrally, generate alerts and leave human analysts to triage them. The result is alert fatigue, high false-positive rates and response times measured in hours. AiStrike uses what it calls composite AI, combining machine learning, knowledge graphs and large language models, to do that triage and investigation automatically with full context. It pushes analytics out to where the data sits rather than depending on a single SIEM, and it goes on to take response actions and strengthen detection coverage. The company now describes the model as preemptive cyber defense and offers it as a platform and as agentic cyber defense delivered as a service.

He staffed the company largely with former Securonix colleagues. Kayzad Vanskuiwalla, who led threat detection, hunting and intelligence there, is co-founder and Chief Product Officer. Harsh Patwardhan, a Securonix co-founder, joined as Chief Technology Officer in 2025. AiStrike filed a Form D in November 2025, and in January 2026 it announced a $7 million seed round led by Blumberg Capital. Agale said the traditional security operating model “no longer works in a world of AI-driven threats.” The company says it is deployed across enterprises and government organizations.

Education

No education record was found in a first-party or filed source. AiStrike’s biography of him does not mention his education.