{"id":111320,"date":"2025-01-29T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=111320"},"modified":"2025-02-10T15:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T15:08:41","slug":"torq-to-expand-emea-operations-and-announces-300-revenue-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2025\/01\/29\/torq-to-expand-emea-operations-and-announces-300-revenue-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Torq to expand EMEA operations and announces 300% revenue growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Torq also appoints veteran sales leader\u00a0Usman Gulfaraz as VP of EMEA Sales\u00a0and opens new EMEA HQ in London.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torq, the autonomous security operations leader, has announced 300% revenue growth over 2024 and 200% employee growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torq is also expanding operations across EMEA, opening new EMEA headquarters in London, and appointing Usman Gulfaraz as its new VP of EMEA Sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torq\u2019s EMEA momentum mirrors the tremendous growth it experienced in 2024 across North and South America and APAC, where Torq HyperSOC and Torq Hyperautomation products are now firmly established as the premiere Agentic AI and autonomous SOC solutions of choice for the Fortune 500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These announcements follow Torq\u2019s recent closing of its $70m Series C round, which brought its total funding to $192m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For 2026, Torq has established an aggressive ARR target of $100m – which includes EMEA revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gulfaraz, a revered sales veteran, was most recently responsible for global revenue at Speechmatics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, he ran EMEA for Tessian, which he helped lead to acquisition by Proofpoint. Prior to that, he ran EMEA for Shape Security which he helped lead to acquisition by F5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torq has also appointed Jaicee Matthews as its Head of EMEA Marketing. Matthews previously led marketing teams for GTT, Edgio, and Lumen Technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gulfarez and Matthews are based in Torq\u2019s new London headquarters. Sheldon Muir, Head of Global Channels and Alliances, is managing the EMEA partner ecosystem from Torq\u2019s New York City worldwide headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re seeing extraordinary enterprise demand for Torq\u2019s Agentic AI security solutions across EMEA,\u201d said Gulfaraz. \u201cOrganizations understand the incredible results Torq is delivering for multinational companies. They\u2019ve seen how our technology transformed the cybersecurity landscape during 2024, with the introduction of the expanded Torq HyperSOC featuring our Agentic AI Multi-Agent Framework. And now they\u2019re eager to deploy these solutions to enhance their own security operations. Torq officially brought the SOAR era to a close last year. In 2025, the sky\u2019s the limit for Torq as it continues to rapidly evolve into a global force.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torq\u2019s customer base includes some of the biggest names in cybersecurity, consumer packaged goods, industrial automation, online services, retail and telecommunications, such as Check Point Security, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inditex (Zara, Bershka, and Pull & Bear), Informatica, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Siemens, Telefonica, Wiz and World Economic Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday, Torq HyperSOC investigates, triages and remediates many of Check Point\u2019s internal security alerts without any human intervention,\u201d said Jonathan Fischbein CISO, Check Point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf an alert meets certain parameters based on organizational security policies, the platform takes relevant predefined steps, such as initiating an MFA challenge or locking out a suspicious user. We can react automatically to problems before they become security incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torq\u2019s ever-expanding EMEA partner base includes AdvanceSec, Bytes Software Services, Check Point, GlobalDots, Nubera, Nueva Group, Softcat, Tata Group, Wiz and WWT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to partner with Torq and continue to deliver innovation that matters to our customers,\u201d said Adam McCaig, Head of Security Strategy and Services, Bytes Software Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDemand for Torq\u2019s game-changing Hyperautomation Platform and Torq HyperSOC continues expanding exponentially. Together, Torq and Bytes Software Services are making enterprise SecOps teams across EMEA more productive and focused with their AI-driven SecOps and autonomous SOC solutions, ensuring organizations can mitigate existential security issues before they have a chance of creating adverse impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Torq also appoints veteran sales leader\u00a0Usman Gulfaraz as VP of EMEA Sales\u00a0and opens new EMEA HQ in London. Torq, the autonomous security operations leader, has announced 300% revenue growth over 2024 and 200% employee growth. Torq is also expanding operations across EMEA, opening new EMEA headquarters in London, and appointing Usman Gulfaraz as its new VP of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":111326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16003,14804,16061,4115,15994,13,79],"tags":[1063,1530,1105,562,19318],"class_list":["post-111320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-cybersecurity","category-europe","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-middle-east","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-africa","tag-cybersecurity","tag-europe","tag-middle-east","tag-torq"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112115,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111320\/revisions\/112115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}