Every SOC leader knows the feeling: drowning in logs, dashboards, and alerts. Data is supposed to bring clarity, but instead it fragments across tools, piles into costly SIEMs, and leaves analysts squinting for signal in a flood of noise.

And it is not just about intelligence. It is about cost. Today’s CISOs face a brutal tradeoff: either pay exorbitant sums to ingest everything, or drop logs that could contain the key to detecting the next breach. Neither path is sustainable. One sacrifices budget. The other sacrifices resilience.

Attackers exploit vulnerabilities in hours. Defenders slog through weeks of detection, investigation, and response. The core problem is that the security data layer is broken. Fixing it requires more than new dashboards. It requires rethinking how security data is collected, filtered, and routed from the ground up.

ENTER REALM

Realm’s founders, Pete Martin, Jeff Kraemer, and Sanket Choksey, have lived this pain for over a decade. They built and sold products at Confer, Rapid7, and VMware Carbon Black, and experienced firsthand how the cost, complexity, and speed gaps were widening the window for attackers.

So they flipped the script. Instead of another generic log pipeline, they built one that is security-only and AI-native.

That design choice shows up everywhere:

• Realm Focus, the first module, uses machine learning to automatically identify repetitive, high-volume telemetry, like DNS queries or firewall “allows,” that clogs SIEMs. Rather than discarding it, Realm classifies it. High-risk or anomalous events flow into the SIEM, while benign bulk is routed to cheaper storage. Teams slash SIEM bills by up to 80% in days without losing forensic breadcrumbs.
• From there, the roadmap expands naturally. Realm Unity normalizes data automatically, avoiding vendor lock-in. Realm Privacy Guard redacts sensitive data like PII, PHI, and PCI in real time, making previously untouchable sources usable. And Realm Data Haven provides a compliant, managed archive for long-term investigations and audits.

It starts with cost savings. It grows into full control over security data.

WHY NOW

The timing could not be better. SIEM spend has ballooned to over $10 billion, with single deployments costing enterprises hundreds of thousands to millions annually, thanks to ingest-based pricing and heavy professional services. Telemetry volumes continue to surge across endpoints, cloud services, and applications, stretching legacy architectures to the breaking point. Meanwhile, hyperscalers like AWS and Microsoft are pushing “security lake” approaches that separate storage from analytics.

This shift creates a critical gap: intelligent routing, shaping, and enrichment before data ever hits the lake. Realm is purpose-built for exactly this moment.

WHY WE INVESTED 

What drew us in was Realm’s ability to solve a universal pain point with speed and precision.

• It is fast. Customers are up and running in under a week. A stark contrast to multi-month Cribl rollouts.
• It is purpose-built for security and AI-native. By understanding not just where a log comes from but what it means, Realm’s models deliver automated sharper routing, deeper savings, and adaptive intelligence that generic pipelines cannot match without resource-intensive and time-consuming manual configuration.
• It is built for scale from day one. The team made critical design choices that are rare at the seed stage, engineering the platform for enterprise readiness, performance, and reliability, without sacrificing speed in the process.
• It grows naturally. Focus is the wedge, but the additional modules expand value without requiring customers to rip out existing systems.
• The team knows the buyer. Pete, Jeff, and Sanket have worked together for more than 15 years. They have sold to CISOs before. They have lived the operational grind. That empathy shows up in a product that feels tailor-made for security realities – because it is.

LOOKING AHEAD

Realm is moving quickly. Focus is already saving customers millions, and upcoming modules extend that foundation, creating the backbone of an AI-ready SOC where analysts spend less time wrangling logs and more time defending.

That’s the story that excites us. Realm isn’t just shrinking SIEM bills; it’s closing the gap between how fast attackers move and how fast defenders can respond.

The team is so confident in their product that they are offering it free for 30 days – up to 500 GB a day, no strings attached. If you are a security leader who wants to see what an AI-native pipeline can do, you can sign up for a demo here.

They’re also hiring, if you want to be a part of their growth story.

We’re thrilled to back Pete, Jeff, and Sanket, and to partner with Realm as they redefine what security data can do.

This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Jump Capital is an investor in Realm Security. Views expressed represent the opinions of the author and Jump Capital. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, and references to specific companies and their capabilities do not constitute investment recommendations or guarantee future performance.