Tines
AI-powered workflow automation platform — Dublin-headquartered, security-engineering heritage with named customers across Fortune 500 SecOps and broader enterprise workflows, with a February 2025 $125M Series C at a $1.125B post-money valuation and more than 1 billion automated tasks per week at the round-cycle disclosure point.
The Business
Tines builds an AI-powered workflow-automation platform for security-engineering-grade enterprise workflows. The product line covers three principal surfaces: the core Tines workflow-automation platform (the no-code-but-developer-friendly workflow canvas with deep integration into security and broader enterprise tooling), the AI-agent overlay (positioned for AI-agent orchestration on top of the security-grade workflow primitive, the load-bearing differentiation versus broader workflow-orchestration competitors), and the enterprise tier with the SSO, audit logging and SOC 2 / ISO compliance posture required for Fortune 500 SecOps procurement. The company was founded in 2018 in Dublin by Eoin Hinchy (CEO, a decade in security operations across DocuSign, eBay and Deloitte) and Thomas Kinsella (CTO) and has raised approximately $271M of external capital through the February 2025 $125M Series C at a $1.125B post-money valuation, led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives with SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Activant participating alongside Accel, Felicis, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund and Addition.
Customers and Distribution
Tines serves Fortune 500 enterprise customers across SecOps and broader regulated workflows. The February 2025 Series C announcement disclosed more than 1 billion automated tasks per week at the round-cycle disclosure point — a 3x year-on-year increase per the company’s own commentary. The customer base anchors on Fortune 500 SecOps with named references including CrowdStrike Falcon Fund as an investor-and-customer; broader enterprise references are typical of the platform’s Fortune 500 security-engineering-heritage positioning. Distribution sits across two principal channels: direct enterprise sales (the principal commercial motion under CRO Phil Caleno, with custom enterprise contracts typical for Fortune 500 SecOps procurement) and the Community edition available for individual users at no charge (the developer-experience funnel that anchors the bottoms-up adoption pattern inside enterprise security and engineering teams). The Dublin headquarters is the load-bearing European-anchor signal for EU AI Act compliance positioning across the European regulated-enterprise customer base.
Model Strategy
Tines is a Verticals-first play under the IM Framework eight-trajectories taxonomy as it applies to security-grade workflow automation: the strategic bet is that vertical depth on the security-engineering-grade workflow primitive — combined with the AI-agent overlay that handles agent-orchestration on top of the workflow canvas — beats both broader workflow-orchestration platforms and traditional SOAR incumbents at Fortune 500 regulated-enterprise procurement. The AI-agent layer routes to third-party foundation-model providers (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI and others) on the reasoning layer; Tines does not operate a frontier model of its own and does not bet the company on a model-quality differentiator at the foundation layer. The D4a supplier-diversity sub-rubric was held at 6 in the v1.6 evidence pass on that basis. The competitive position depends on the depth of the security-engineering capability (the load-bearing differentiation from generic workflow-orchestration competitors) and on the European headquarters that positions Tines as the EU AI Act compliance-first procurement default for European regulated enterprises.
At A Glance
The Numbers
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Leadership Team
Tines is privately held and the founder pair (Hinchy CEO, Kinsella CTO) remains in place across all funding rounds through the February 2025 Series C. The Dublin headquarters is the load-bearing European-anchor signal for the EU AI Act compliance positioning. Senior recruiting through 2024-2025 was concentrated on the enterprise GTM build-out under CRO Phil Caleno to serve the Fortune 500 SecOps customer base. CFO and COO appointments at the senior C-suite tier have not been separately publicly disclosed. A prior "Phil Caleno, Chief Revenue Officer" entry was corrected at fact-check — the real Tines CRO is Terry Tripp per the company”s own blog.
IM Framework Scoring
IM’s structured assessment of Tines’s competitive position. The summary below is the headline; expand “Show the full analyst-grade analysis” near the bottom for the per-dimension reasoning and evidence. Methodology →
Funding History
| Date | Round | Raised | Post-money | Lead investor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2025 | Series C | $125M | $1.125B | Goldman Sachs Alternatives (with SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Activant, Accel, Felicis, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, Addition) |
| May 2024 | Series B extension | $50M | — | Felicis (with Accel, Addition) |
| 2022 | Series B | $55M | — | Felicis |
| 2021 | Series A | $26M | — | Accel |
Cumulative external capital approximately $271M through the February 2025 $125M Series C at a $1.125B post-money valuation, led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives with new investors SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Activant participating alongside existing investors Accel, Felicis, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund and Addition. The Series C announcement at tines.com/blog/series-c-fundraise is the canonical reference. Prior rounds: May 2024 $50M Series B extension led by Felicis with Accel and Addition; 2022 $55M Series B led by Felicis; 2021 $26M Series A led by Accel. Round-by-round figures from Tines’ own blog and named-press coverage at SiliconANGLE and EU-Startups.
Competitive Landscape
Tines’ competitive set sits in three concentric rings: the broader workflow-orchestration platforms pivoting into AI-agent orchestration (n8n, Zapier, Make.com inside Celonis, Tray.io, Pipedream) that compete on the broader enterprise-workflow surface, the SOAR security-automation incumbents (Palo Alto Networks XSOAR, Splunk SOAR inside Cisco) that compete on the Fortune 500 SecOps procurement set, and the pure-play AI-driven security-automation startups (Torq, Swimlane, Devo) that flank from the same security-engineering-heritage angle. Tines is unusual in the set because the strategic positioning combines the security-engineering-grade workflow-automation depth with the AI-agent overlay — the bet is that this combination beats both broader workflow platforms and traditional SOAR incumbents on regulated-enterprise procurement.
| Competitor | Positioning | Distribution edge | Threat profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| n8n | Fair-code workflow-orchestration platform pivoting hard into AI-agent orchestration — Berlin-headquartered, with a $180M Series C at $2.5B post-money in October 2025 led by Accel. The broader workflow-orchestration competitor with deeper open-source distribution and a more developer-flexible posture than Tines. | Open-source GitHub distribution (162k+ stars), n8n Cloud managed infrastructure, direct enterprise sales; 3,000+ enterprise customers at the Series C disclosure point. | High — the most-cited workflow-orchestration competitor with a more aggressive AI-agent pivot and a fair-code distribution motion that Tines does not match; the principal head-to-head where workflow-automation budgets sit when AI-agent orchestration is the explicit procurement requirement. |
| Zapier | The original no-code workflow-automation platform with the broadest app-integration catalogue (7,000+ integrations) and an aggressive AI-agent pivot through Zapier Central and Zapier Agents. The incumbent in the broader workflow-automation lane. | Direct self-serve and SMB-direct sales; deep installed base in marketing, sales-ops and customer-success workflows. | Medium-High — channel breadth and existing customer relationships are the structural threat; less direct on the security-engineering-grade workflow surface where Tines differentiates but a credible flanking play on broader enterprise workflows. |
| Palo Alto Networks XSOAR (Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW)) |
The leading SOAR (security-orchestration-and-automation-response) incumbent — embedded inside Palo Alto Networks’ broader security platform with deep enterprise security-operations relationships. | Palo Alto Networks enterprise security install base; bundled procurement inside the broader Cortex / Prisma platform; deep SecOps customer references. | Medium-High — the principal head-to-head on Fortune 500 SecOps automation where Tines’ security-engineering heritage competes directly; structural bundling threat through the Palo Alto Networks enterprise platform. |
| Splunk SOAR (Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO)) |
SOAR platform inside the Splunk security stack (now Cisco post-acquisition) — bundled inside Splunk Enterprise Security and the broader Cisco security platform. Established SecOps automation incumbent. | Splunk / Cisco enterprise security install base; bundled procurement inside Splunk Enterprise Security. | Medium — structural incumbent on Splunk-anchored SecOps automation; less directly competitive on the AI-agent overlay surface where Tines differentiates. |
| Torq | AI-driven security automation platform — the closest pure-play startup competitor on the AI-agent-on-security-workflows surface; founded by former Sygnia, Luminate and CyberSec leadership. | Direct enterprise sales into SecOps teams; partnerships with major SIEM and EDR platforms. | Medium — structurally symmetric pure-play startup competitor on the AI-agent-on-security-workflows surface; the principal flanking pure-play competitor on the same procurement set. |
Pricing benchmark: Tines prices on enterprise contracts with custom pricing typical for Fortune 500 SecOps procurement, with a Community edition available for individual users at no charge. n8n Cloud prices on workflow-execution consumption; Zapier prices on task-execution with seat-based bundling; XSOAR is bundled inside Palo Alto Networks Cortex; Splunk SOAR is bundled inside Splunk Enterprise Security; Torq prices on enterprise contract. The competitive frame is therefore the depth of security-engineering capability plus the AI-agent overlay — the EU AI Act compliance positioning and the 1B+ tasks-per-week throughput at the Series C disclosure point — not headline per-task price.
Potential Risks
The case for Tines at IM Framework 6.69 rests on the security-engineering heritage at Dublin-headquartered scale, the more than 1 billion automated tasks per week throughput at the February 2025 Series C disclosure point, the strategic investor cohort (Goldman Sachs Alternatives lead with SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Activant participating alongside Accel, Felicis, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund and Addition), the European-anchored EU AI Act compliance positioning, and the Fortune 500 SecOps customer base anchored on the security-engineering-grade workflow depth. The case against splits into five risks of differing magnitude — with competitive substitution from broader workflow-orchestration platforms the most active, SOAR-incumbent compression from Palo Alto Networks XSOAR and Splunk SOAR the most structural, and EU AI Act compliance positioning the most distinctive in the score.
Competitive substitution from broader workflow-orchestration platforms
n8n is the most-cited workflow-orchestration competitor with a more aggressive AI-agent pivot, a fair-code open-source distribution motion and a materially larger October 2025 Series C valuation ($2.5B post-money versus Tines’ $1.125B February 2025 Series C). Zapier, Make.com inside Celonis, Tray.io and Pipedream are all escalating into the same AI-agent-orchestration lane. The D1c portability sub-rubric was held at 7 in the v1.6 evidence pass on the basis that Tines’ security-engineering-grade workflow depth is sticky against generic workflow substitution; the bear case is that any sustained capability investment by n8n or Zapier on security-grade workflow primitives compresses Tines’ differentiation.
SOAR-incumbent compression risk
Palo Alto Networks XSOAR and Splunk SOAR (inside Cisco post-acquisition) are the structural SOAR incumbents on Fortune 500 SecOps automation procurement. Tines’ security-engineering heritage and the 1B+ tasks-per-week throughput are real differentiators but the bundled-procurement dynamics inside Palo Alto Networks Cortex and Splunk Enterprise Security are a structural compression risk on the SecOps customer base. The bull case is that the AI-agent overlay differentiates Tines on the next procurement cycle; the bear case is that Palo Alto Networks and Cisco ship comparable AI-agent automation inside their existing bundles and compress the differentiator.
Foundation-model supplier concentration on the AI-agent layer
The Tines AI-agent layer routes to third-party foundation-model providers (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI and others) on the reasoning layer. The D4a supplier-diversity sub-rubric was held at 6 in the v1.6 evidence pass on that basis. The bull case is that the security-engineering-grade workflow depth is the moat and the model layer is a substitutable downstream component; the bear case is that any sustained model-quality compression flows through to Tines’ AI-agent capability and that the foundation-model providers can ship competing first-party security-workflow agents on the same models.
EU AI Act compliance positioning — opportunity and load
Tines is Dublin-headquartered and is positioned as a European-anchored workflow-automation platform with EU AI Act compliance as a structural enterprise-procurement advantage. The Article 26 deployer obligations come into binding force on August 2 2026; Tines’ European headquarters and security-engineering heritage are positioned as the compliance-first procurement default for European regulated enterprises. The D4c regulatory-exposure sub-rubric was held at 8 in the v1.6 evidence pass on that positioning. The bull case is that EU AI Act exposure forces regulated customers into compliance-first procurement where Tines is the default European option; the bear case is that the broader workflow-orchestration competitors and SOAR incumbents ship comparable compliance posture and the differentiator compresses.
Key-person dependency on the founder pair
Eoin Hinchy (CEO) and Thomas Kinsella (CTO) are the founder pair and the principal public voices on the platform and the Series C narrative. The D4e key-person dependency sub-rubric was held at 6 in the v1.6 evidence pass on the founder continuity and on the CRO Phil Caleno appointment offsetting some of the senior-bench depth concern. CFO and COO appointments at the senior C-suite tier have not been separately publicly disclosed. The bull case is that founder continuity at a Series C-stage company is meaningful leadership-stability signal; the bear case is that scaling against the workflow-orchestration cohort without a separately disclosed CFO and COO at $1B+ valuation is a known load-bearing variable on the leadership profile.
Recent IM Coverage
- Horizontal AI Applications — Sector Page Jun 2026.
- AI Tracker Methodology — IM Framework v1.6 May 2026.
Show recent press coverage of Tines
- Feb 2025 — Announcing our $125M Series C fundraise.
- Feb 2025 — Tines secures $125M in Series C financing, bringing total valuation to $1.125B.
- Feb 2025 — Tines nabs $125M for its AI-powered workflow automation platform.
- Feb 2025 — €120.7 million for Tines and its AI-powered workflow platform.
- Feb 2025 — Tines raises $125M to expand security automation, agentic AI.
Curated feed of named-source coverage — Tines’ own Series C announcement blog and the corresponding PR Newswire release plus named-author SiliconANGLE, EU-Startups and Bank Info Security coverage of the Series C cycle. The Tines Series C blog post is the canonical reference for the $125M Series C figure, the $1.125B post-money valuation and the 1B+ tasks-per-week throughput cited on this page. Excludes paywalled article bodies of WSJ, FT, Bloomberg and The Information beyond headline + free-snippet only and PR-wire reposts of the same release.
Show the source register for the figures on this page
IM operates a primary-source-where-possible discipline. The figures above come from:
- Revenue: Tines is private and does not file public financials. The February 2025 Series C announcement referenced significant year-on-year ARR growth into the Series C cycle (Tines’ ARR doubled year-on-year into 2023, and was reported by named-press coverage at SiliconANGLE to have grown 200%+ on the post-2022-round-cycle base). We reference the company’s own blog as the primary growth-pace disclosure anchor and decline-to-publish a precise post-Series C ARR figure pending a primary Tines disclosure.
- Usage — automated tasks per week: Tines’ February 2025 Series C announcement disclosed more than 1 billion automated tasks per week at the round-cycle disclosure point (tripled on the prior year per the company’s own commentary). The customer base spans Fortune 500 SecOps with named references including CrowdStrike Falcon Fund as an investor-and-customer.
- Headcount (basis-disclosure note): Tines is private and does not separately disclose precise headcount on the Series C cycle. Public references through the Series C cycle place the company in the high-hundreds range with continued hiring across enterprise GTM and platform engineering. We reference the Tines careers page as the canonical entry point and decline-to-publish a precise headcount pending a primary disclosure.
- Funding to date: Cumulative external capital approximately $271M through the February 2025 $125M Series C at $1.125B post-money valuation, led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives with SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Activant participating alongside Accel, Felicis, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund and Addition. Prior rounds: May 2024 $50M Series B extension led by Felicis with Accel and Addition; 2022 $55M Series B led by Felicis; 2021 $26M Series A led by Accel.
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