Radicl

RADICL (RADICL Defense, Inc.) is a Boulder, Colorado-based cybersecurity company that sells a Cybersecurity-as-a-Service (CSaaS) offering built around an autonomous virtual security operations center (vSOC). The platform is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses operating in regulated or high-risk sectors, particularly companies in the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (DIB) and critical infrastructure supply chains, which the company argues cannot afford enterprise-grade security tooling or staff.

The vSOC combines agentic AI operators with human analysts, the customer and the customer's managed service provider inside a single software-led interface, an approach the company describes as "service as software." Modular services include Managed Compliance Adherence, Managed Log Analytics, Managed Detection & Response, Managed Attack Surface and Managed Security Awareness. Customers can begin with a compliance requirement such as CMMC or NIST SP 800-171, or with protection of a limited part of their infrastructure, and expand to broader defense-in-depth capabilities over time. RADICL's earlier flagship product was RADICL XTP, an extended threat protection platform that entered limited-availability pilot in 2023 and covered preventative security management, real-time threat monitoring, investigation and neutralization, security training and compliance management.

Alongside its platform, RADICL publishes research on its target market, including the Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Maturity Report (2024 and 2025 editions), a CMMC Quick-Start Toolkit of more than 25 customizable templates, and the DIB Innovators podcast.

Founding story

Chris Petersen co-founded LogRhythm in 2002 and spent more than 16 years there, most recently as CTO, leading it through its 2018 acquisition by Thoma Bravo before stepping back in 2019 for family medical reasons. The 2020 SolarWinds breach, in which hundreds of organizations were compromised and went undetected for months, prompted his return to the industry. He founded RADICL Defense in 2021 with David Graff, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and defense industry executive, and Matt Petersen, a founding LogRhythm engineer, to build defenses for small contractors facing nation-state adversaries.

Business model

RADICL sells managed cybersecurity as a service, delivering security operations functions to customers through its vSOC platform rather than requiring them to staff and tool their own SOC. Delivery involves both software agents and RADICL human analysts, and the model accommodates the customer's existing managed service provider working side by side in the same interface.

The company has sold its platform as an annual subscription priced on a per-employee and per-endpoint basis, with modular service offerings that customers can add over time.

Traction

At the time of the February 2026 Series A, Paladin Capital Group stated that RADICL's revenue had increased more than sevenfold year over year with accelerating customer adoption. The company had grown to a 14-person team at the time of its 2023 round. Customers include Red 6, whose CIO cited RADICL's vSOC in support of its cybersecurity function and CMMC adherence.

Latest developments

On 3 February 2026 RADICL announced a $31 million Series A led by Paladin Capital Group with participation from Access Venture Partners, Denver Ventures and new investor Cervin Ventures, bringing total funding reported at $42 million. Proceeds are earmarked for development of the AI-native autonomous vSOC, new product modules and market expansion. Paladin Managing Director Mourad Yesayan joined the board.