Learn More About
Qevlar AI

Curious about our mission, partnerships, and team? Discover what we stand for and what we’re building.

Our mission

We're shifting security operations from reactive firefighting to proactive defense. SOCs today are optimized for processing alerts, while their actual goal should be improving security. Teams spend their time reacting to thousands of daily signals while managing hundreds of fragmented detection tools that never give them the complete picture.

At Qevlar AI, we believe alerts aren't the end goal. They're signals pointing to something deeper: recurring attack patterns, systemic weaknesses, and exposure risks that, when understood collectively, reveal how to truly strengthen your security posture.

Our mission is to help security teams move beyond the endless cycle of alert triage and focus on what actually makes organizations safer.

Top

100

most promising AI companies shaping the future of Europe by Headline

Meet the team

Ahmed Achchak

Co-founder and CEO

With a background in machine learning and engineering across leading banks and startups, Ahmed brings an AI-first perspective to cybersecurity.

Hamza Sayah

Co-founder and CTO

Passionate about mathematics and AI, Hamza is leading the technical side of Qevlar AI.

Hakim Jakhjoukh

Chief Revenue Officer

With a background scaling go-to-market at enterprise software and AI companies, Hakim brings a commercial perspective built for AI-native products to cybersecurity. At Qevlar, he leads sales, sales engineering, strategic partnership and customer success across EMEA and the US.

Corentin Le Reun

VP, Americas

Corentin spent a decade at Cisco Security in senior roles across France and the United States, before serving as VP of Sales then CEO at VISO TRUST, a Series A cybersecurity company acquired by Protecht. He joined Qevlar to lead the Americas. (edited)

Leila Zeddam

Sr Director, Global BDR

With over a decade of experience in building and scaling global sales development teams in AI, SaaS, and cybersecurity, Leila has strong expertise in outbound strategy, pipeline generation, and go-to-market execution. She leads the Global BDR function, driving consistent pipeline growth and market expansion in EMEA and the US.

Frazer Whitfield

Head of Product

With a background in product leadership across software and security, Fraser keeps Qevlar close to the people it serves, turning the daily grind of SOC investigations into a product that gives analysts their time back, and makes organisations more secure.

Renaud Couzin

Director of AI

Trained in physics and computer science, Renaud combines analytical rigor with a pragmatic mindset to build reliable AI technology that doesn't hallucinate for cybersecurity teams

Julien Hobeika

VP Strategy and Operations

A serial entrepreneur and venture investor, Julien has spent more than a decade building, scaling, and advising technology companies. He founded and exited several AI startups and later joined EQT Ventures as a Partner, backing the next generation of software leaders, including the first 2 rounds of Qevlar. At Qevlar, he leads Strategy & Operations, driving company-wide execution and growth initiatives.

Charles Matausch

Chief of Staff

Charles is Qevlar AI's first business hire. Since the early days, he has been the operational backbone of the company, helping it scale.

Nadia Mejri

Director Of Customer Success

With a technical background in cybersecurity and a passion for turning complexity into clarity, Nadia leads Customer Success at Qevlar AI, where she architects the full customer journey from onboarding to long-term adoption.

Jean-Baptiste Guglielmine

Director of Sales Engineering

Having spent 20+ years in cybersecurity (15 of them living and breathing the SOC market), JB understands analysts’ pain points firsthand and knows exactly what it takes for AI to earn a SOC team’s trust.

Mickael Giraud

IT & Information Security Director

With a deep passion for emerging technologies and a career in cybersecurity, Mickael brings both vision and rigor to his role leading the IT and Security team at Qevlar AI. Day to day, he drives the technical and security strategy that keeps the company's infrastructure robust, compliant, and ready for what's next.

Diagram showing heating and cooling water flow in a heat exchanger with inputs and outputs labeled.

Three horizontal gray sliders with white circular knobs evenly spaced on a black background.

Our story

Qevlar was founded by Ahmed Achchak and Hamza Sayah, 
AI engineers who saw firsthand how Security Operations Centers were drowning in noise while missing what really mattered. We knew there had to be a better way by rethinking how investigations are done and what security teams should spend their time on.  

Today, Qevlar AI is trusted by Fortune Global 500 enterprises and leading MSSPs across Europe, the US, and beyond, including Orange Cyberdefense, MediaMarkt, Atos, Sodexo, GlobalConnect, Nomios, Almond, Stoik, ECI, Performanta.

Below are some of our main milestones

Incubated by Microsoft and Meta

Early foundations of our technology were built alongside two of the world’s leading AI ecosystems.

Raised $14M to supercharge SOC teams

We raised $14M with EQT Ventures & Growth and Forgepoint Capital to accelerate our growth and keep building the product that truly brings value.

Formed global partnerships

Global Fortune 500 enterprises and leading MSSPs implementing its autonomous investigation platform have achieved:

10x reduction in investigation time, down to 3 minutes
100% of alerts investigated with full depth and context
24/7 non-stop investigation
Zero compromise on quality while handling growing alert volumes

Won some of the industry's most prestigious awards.

Qevlar AI has won multiple awards among which are the Best Partner for Orange Cyberdefense Innovation Award, Product of the Year 2025 by MSP Today, and the Growth Award by Forum InCyber. It has also been named among the Top 100 cybersecurity companies shaping the AI space by Headline.

Raised $30M to accelerate our mission of transforming SOCs from reactive firefighting to proactive defense

In 2026, Qevlar AI has announced a new funding round co-led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital with participation of EQT Ventures and Growth.

Always in the spotlight

From major cybersecurity conferences to global stages,Qevlar is where the industry conversation happens.

Our team is passionate about shaping the future of security and leading the conversations that move the industry forward. Want to join like-minded builders?

Join us