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Guardz

Founded 2022 · 161 employees on LinkedIn · 11 known investors

Guardz is a unified cybersecurity platform built for managed service providers that integrates identity threat detection, endpoint protection, email security, and data defense. The platform combines AI-native capabilities with third-party integrations to help MSPs detect, investigate, and respond to threats across identity, endpoints, email, and cloud environments.

Also known as Guardz

Investors · 11

Also in the syndicate · 2

GKFF VenturesHanaco Ventureslead

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$56M disclosed across 1 of 4 rounds · 2023–2025

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Guardz provides a unified cybersecurity platform aimed at managed service providers (MSPs) and MSSPs. The platform brings identity threat detection and response (ITDR), endpoint detection and response (EDR), email security, data protection, security awareness training (SAT), dark web monitoring, and exposure management together in a single MSP-ready product rather than as separate point tools.

The product is positioned around what the company calls "Agentic SecOps": a unified data fabric that connects signals across identities, email, endpoints, web, and data, layered with intelligence and software agents that perform detection, investigation, prioritization, and response, with a human-in-the-loop option alongside an autonomous analyst. Guardz correlates activity across each customer environment, applies automated containment and guided remediation, and generates client-facing reporting such as AI-generated security reports covering security score, threats contained, high-risk users, and compliance progress.

Business model

Guardz sells its platform to MSPs, which deploy it across their own client bases from a multi-tenant console. The company markets all-inclusive, per-seat pricing with flexible terms, and offers a 14-day free trial that does not require a credit card.

Per-seat subscription pricing described as flexible and all-inclusive, with no additional charges advertised beyond the seat-based fee.

Traction

Guardz reports adoption by thousands of MSPs, with named MSP owners providing testimonials and multiple recorded MSP customer stories published on its site.

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

Market position

The company states that thousands of MSPs use the platform, and its messaging targets MSPs consolidating multiple security vendors into one platform.

Guardz positions itself as a single-pane, all-in-one alternative to fragmented security stacks, emphasizing fast onboarding and integration setup, automatic remediation, simplified MDR, and client-ready reporting that MSPs can use to demonstrate value. One customer cites cutting implementation time by 80% when connecting Microsoft 365, Check Point, and SentinelOne.

Technology

A unified data fabric ingests signals from across the customer workspace (identities, email, endpoints, web, and data) and feeds three layers: intelligence that learns, agents that triage and respond, and connected signal correlation. Capabilities span ITDR, EDR, email security, data protection, security awareness training, dark web and exposure monitoring, with automated detection, prioritization, and auto-response/containment. The platform integrates with third-party tools and services including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Check Point, SentinelOne, and the SuperOps PSA/RMM platform.

Go-to-market

Self-service and sales-assisted motion via the company website: a no-credit-card 14-day free trial, product tour, and demo booking, supported by MSP customer testimonials and video case studies (for example Elmdale IT Services, Cyber Distribution, Jones IT, ArkCybr, S5 IT Solutions, and Trusted Computing). A partner/reseller distribution angle is also referenced.

Managed service providers and managed security service providers, and through them the small and mid-sized business clients whose Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, endpoint, email, and identity environments they secure.

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

Key figures

latest reported
Free trial lengthJan 202514 days
HeadcountAug 2026161
MSP customersJan 2025Thousands of MSPs

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

In the news

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 Guardz do?
Guardz is a unified, agent-driven cybersecurity platform built for managed service providers and their clients.
Who are Guardz's investors?
Guardz's investors include Atento Capital, BRM Capital, ClearSky, Glilot Capital Partners, Hanaco Venture Capital, Lumir Ventures, S Ventures, Cyverse Capital and 1 more.
How much funding has Guardz raised?
Guardz has disclosed $56M raised across 1 of its 4 known rounds.