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Blinkops

Austin, US · Founded 2021 · 126 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors

BlinkOps builds a security automation platform aimed at security and IT operations teams. The company was founded in 2021 by security and IT operations experts.

Also known as Blink · Blink Ops · BlinkOps

Founders & leadership

Blinkops was founded in 2021 by Zion Zatlavi and Gil Barak.

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Zion ZatlaviinCo-Founder
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Gil BarakinCEO & Co-Founder

Investors · 4

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

BlinkOps develops Blink, which it positions as an Agentic Security Operations Platform (ASOP) — a foundation layer for building and running AI agents across security operations rather than a single fixed product. The platform ingests alerts from SIEM, EDR, cloud, identity and email tools, investigates each alert, and returns a case containing supporting evidence, a severity assessment and a recommended action. Customers configure which agents act autonomously and which pause for human approval.

The product spans both AI SOC capabilities (alert triage, investigation and response) and Agentic SOAR (building automation across the security stack) on the same platform, sharing integrations, case management and guardrails. Components include an agent builder, workflows, dashboards and tables, and a "Connectivity Mesh" providing more than 30,000 out-of-the-box integrations, plus over 500 pre-built agent templates. BlinkOps markets domain-specific applications under labels such as Agentic SOC, Agentic GRC, Agentic AppSec, Agentic VM and Agentic IAM, and describes coverage of nine security domains: SOC, cloud security, identity and access management, GRC, vulnerability management, email and phishing, endpoint, incident response and ITSM. The company also positions Blink as a replacement for legacy SOAR and case management tools.

Business model

BlinkOps sells its Blink platform to enterprise security teams, supported by Forward Deployment Engineers with security expertise who help customers build and automate workflows.

Traction

The website states Blink is used by security teams worldwide and publishes anonymized customer statements, including a Fortune 100 U.S. airline SOC leader citing tracked savings of over $200,000 in a slow week and over $1 million during large migrations while handling thousands of endpoints in minutes, and a global consumer electronics manufacturer executive stating Blink delivered in under a month what a prior vendor took a year to deliver.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market

Market position

Self-described as the leading Agentic Security Operations Platform purpose-built for security operations, competing with AI SOC point tools and legacy SOAR and case management products.

BlinkOps contrasts Blink with pure AI SOC tools that stop at investigation and with scripted SOAR products that only execute predefined playbooks, positioning Blink as combining agent reasoning, workflow execution and enforced guardrails across the entire security program. It also cites breadth of integrations available on day one and customer comparisons favoring Blink over XSOAR for debugging, building, tables and custom actions.

Technology

Blink pairs agentic reasoning by micro-agents with deterministic workflows and guardrails, an approach the company frames as keeping credentials and secrets protected rather than relying on unconstrained frontier models. Every micro-agent, decision and workflow is described as customizable, and connectivity is provided through a mesh of more than 30,000 integrations that avoids custom engineering.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise sales driven by demo requests on the company website, supported by webinars and customer testimonials, with Forward Deployment Engineers assisting implementation and use-case expansion. The company emphasizes that customers typically start in one domain (often the SOC) and extend to additional domains on the same platform without a new procurement cycle.

Enterprise security teams, including SOC, GRC, IAM and security operations leaders. Testimonials on the company site reference organizations in retail and apparel, cybersecurity, insurance, health insurance, healthcare, enterprise IT software, consumer electronics and aviation, with employee counts ranging from 500 to more than 100,000.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Out-of-the-box integrationsJan 202630,000 integrations
Pre-built agent templatesJan 2026500 templates

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Blinkops do?
BlinkOps builds Blink, an agentic security operations platform for AI SOC, SOAR, GRC, IAM and vulnerability workflows.
Who founded Blinkops?
Blinkops was founded by Zion Zatlavi, Gil Barak in 2021.
Who are Blinkops's investors?
Blinkops's investors include Entrée Capital, Hetz Ventures, Vertex Ventures, SCB 10X.
Where is Blinkops headquartered?
Blinkops is headquartered in Austin, US.