Dropzone AI is your always-on SOC teammate – proactively investigating every alert, cutting through the noise, and giving your team back time to stop real threats.

SEATTLE, March 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Dropzone AI, the first AI-powered SOC analyst, today announced AI Interviewer, an advanced LLM-driven feature that automates security team user interviews – eliminating a major bottleneck in security incident investigations. The company also reported a Q4 10x ARR increase, a new Fortune 500 customer, and continued expansion, doubling its engineering, sales, and marketing teams following its $20M Series A funding in April 2024. The company has expanded its platform capabilities with response automation, insight tags, and integrations spanning all major security platforms, reinforcing its position as the first truly vendor-agnostic AI SOC analyst.

Advancing AI-Driven SOC Efficiency

Dropzone AI‘s vendor-agnostic AI SOC analyst investigates alerts autonomously – without playbooks, code, or human prompts – eliminating inefficiencies and reducing SOC workloads.

AI Interviewer automates user interviews via messaging platforms like Slack, accelerating investigations and eliminating repetitive SOC tasks. Dropzone AI‘s latest advancements also include response automation for seamless workflow integration and insight tags that provide critical context in investigation reports.

Dropzone AI is pioneering the next evolution of AI-driven cybersecurity solutions by leveraging OpenAI’s cutting-edge reasoning models that enhance the precision and efficiency of AI-powered investigations. These advancements directly complement Dropzone AI‘s technical innovations, including response automation and insight tags, ensuring seamless integration with existing security workflows while maximizing the speed and accuracy of cybersecurity operations.

OpenAI‘s Head of Startups Marc Manara said, “Dropzone AI’s system showcases how AI can automate complex cybersecurity investigations and help even resource-constrained organizations focus on the security alerts that matter. The Dropzone team is always looking to enable new types of capabilities with each model release. They’re using OpenAI’s reasoning models to deepen how the system forms and tests hypotheses during investigations, replicating the reasoning process of expert human analysts.”

Strategic Partnerships and Customer Success

Dropzone AI recently announced its integration with the Crowdstrike Falcon cybersecurity platform to automate alert triage and investigation within Dropzone AI. This enables SOC teams to focus on high-value security tasks while reducing manual investigation time.

A Fortune 500 government service provider integrated Dropzone AI to streamline security workflows, reducing costs while improving threat detection and response.

As cybersecurity threats continue to escalate, organizations are rapidly adopting Dropzone AI‘s autonomous AI SOC analyst to eliminate alert fatigue, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), and streamline security operations. CBTS, a leading IT solutions provider, utilizes Dropzone AI to generate over $1M in additional analytical capacity for its service business, proving the direct financial benefits of AI-powered SOC automation.

“Dropzone AI further advances CBTS‘s security capabilities by automating critical SOC tasks and streamlining complex investigations with deep insights and knowledge,” said Chris DeBrunner, Vice President, Security Operations, CBTS. “This empowers our global team of security professionals to improve our client‘s security posture and resiliency against malicious actors.”

Dropzone AI empowers security teams and MSSPs to scale SOC operations. MSSPs leverage its automation to expand services, boost margins, and reduce costs while keeping pace with customer demand. UIPath, a key enterprise customer, is leveraging Dropzone AI‘s technology to optimize security workflows, automate investigations, and accelerate response times.

Industry Leadership & Recognition

Dropzone AI‘s market leadership is validated by its inclusion in 8 Gartner reports, including its designation as a Gartner Cool Vendor for the Modern SOC. Additionally, the company was named a Finalist at RSA Innovation Sandbox and recognized as a 2024 Intelligent Applications 40 Winner – solidifying its reputation as the most trusted AI SOC Analyst and GenAI-powered SOC Automation in the market.

“When I founded Dropzone AI two years ago, many questioned whether LLMs could truly automate the complexities of alert investigations,” said Edward Wu, Founder and CEO of Dropzone AI. “Today, our AI SOC analysts are delivering real-world ROI by dramatically elevating human analysts – handling the heavy lifting for both enterprises and service providers so that security teams can focus on real threats. Now, more than ever, our technology is poised to offload the burdens of reactive defense and catalyze a paradigm shift toward proactive security in the face of ever-intensifying cyber attacks.”

About Dropzone AI

Dropzone AI is the leading AI SOC Analyst, trusted by SOC teams to automate tedious, repetitive tasks. It autonomously investigates alerts 24/7, integrates with existing security tools, and delivers decision-ready investigation reports. Designed to eliminate alert fatigue and accelerate incident response, Dropzone AI frees SOC teams for higher-level work, enabling organizations to focus on real threats without adding headcount. No playbooks, code, or prompts required. Learn more by visiting www.dropzone.ai. 

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Robert brings nearly 30 years of commercial real estate experience along with deep corporate relationships across EMEA, Asia and North America.

NEW YORK, March 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Blue Owl Capital Inc. (“Blue Owl”) (NYSE: OWL), a leading alternative asset manager, announced today the hiring of Robert Campkin as part of the Company’s European Net Lease Strategy. Robert will join as a Managing Director based in London.

Prior to joining Blue Owl, Robert spent six years at Colliers as Head of Corporate Capital Solutions EMEA. In this role, he successfully built a cross border international team of experts based in the UK, Germany and Netherlands. During his tenure, Robert specialized in advising corporate organizations on sale and leaseback, build to suit, forward funding strategies and capital solutions, transacting over €2 billion in deal volume.

Robert previously served in a range of roles across investment management, capital markets and corporate real estate firms including Swiss-Asia, Pepper Financial Services Group, JLL and Cushman & Wakefield.   

Marc Zahr, Global Head of Real Assets at Blue Owl said, “Rob built one of the industry’s most credible and recognizable corporate capital markets teams and will bring with him an extensive network of global corporate client relationships. Supported by our market-leading US net lease business, Rob’s disciplined approach to real estate will be highly value-additive to our investors and corporate counterparties. He will serve as an integral component as we build out the European net lease platform adding to the recent hires Blue Owl has made in the market over the past year.”   

Robert Campkin said, “Having known Marc and his team for years, I am consistently impressed with the success of Blue Owl’s net lease business which maintains a market-leading presence in the US and one of the best track-records in triple net real estate investing. I am honored to build on this foundation and leverage my extensive experience and relationships to emulate Blue Owl’s North American success in the European market. I look forward to working closely with Marc as well as my European-based colleagues Jamie Rotchford and Alex Solomon.”

Blue Owl’s Net Lease investment strategy focuses on acquiring single-tenant, free-standing properties primarily across the industrial, healthcare, essential retail, and data center sectors that are net-leased, long-term, to investment grade and creditworthy tenants. This combination seeks to create predictable cash flow from long-term rents on mission-critical properties in our effort to provide investors with a combination of current income and appreciation, with limited downside risk.

About Blue Owl

Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is redefining alternatives.

With over $250 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2024, we invest across three multi-strategy platforms: Credit, GP Strategic Capital, and Real Assets. Anchored by a strong permanent capital base, we provide businesses with private capital solutions to drive long-term growth and offer institutional investors, individual investors, and insurance companies differentiated alternative investment opportunities that aim to deliver strong performance, risk-adjusted returns, and capital preservation.

Together with over 1,100 experienced professionals globally, Blue Owl brings the vision and discipline to create the exceptional. To learn more, visit www.blueowl.com. 

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These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside Blue Owl’s control, that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements.

Important factors, among others, that may affect actual results or outcomes include the inability to recognize the anticipated benefits of strategic acquisitions; costs related to acquisitions; the inability to maintain the listing of Blue Owl’s shares on the New York Stock Exchange; Blue Owl’s ability to manage growth; Blue Owl’s ability to execute its business plan and meet its projections; potential litigation involving Blue Owl; changes in applicable laws or regulations; and the possibility that Blue Owl may be adversely affected by other economic, business, geo-political and competitive factors.

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Additional Portfolio Brings Relationship to 3.7 GW of Investment in U.S. Generation

HOUSTON, March 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — ENGIE North America (ENGIE) announced that it recently expanded its partnership with Ares Management Infrastructure Opportunities funds (Ares) via the addition of a new almost 1 GW portfolio. ENGIE will retain a controlling share in the portfolio and will continue to operate and manage the assets.

The overall 0.9 GW portfolio consists of three solar projects in operation across ERCOT and MISO, and one co-located battery storage project in ERCOT.

“The expansion of our relationship with Ares reflects the strength of ENGIE’s portfolio of assets and our track record of delivering, operating and financing growth in the U.S.,” said Dave Carroll, Chief Renewables Officer and SVP, ENGIE North America. “The addition of another almost 1 GW of generation and storage to our existing relationship reflects the commitment both ENGIE and Ares have to meeting growing demand for power in the U.S. and continuing to deploy clean energy.”

ENGIE is a leader in the energy transition and currently has more than 11 GW of renewable production in operation or construction across the U.S. and Canada. Globally, ENGIE has 51 GW of renewables and storage in operation, and targeting 95 GW by 2030.

This transaction supports ENGIE’s strategy of continued investment in North America by deepening its partnership with a leading infrastructure investor, recycling capital to facilitate continued expansion of renewable generation to meet strong demand for power in the U.S.

“We are excited to be expanding our relationship with ENGIE through this latest transaction,” said Steve Porto, Partner in Ares’ Infrastructure Opportunities strategy. “We have seen first-hand the ENGIE team’s strength as an operator, and the growth of this partnership reflects our shared confidence in the value proposition of this diversified portfolio and opportunities ahead in the infrastructure sector.”

Based in Houston, Texas, ENGIE North America Inc. is a regional hub of ENGIE, a major player in the energy transition, whose purpose is to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy. With 98,000 employees in 30 countries, the Group covers the entire energy value chain, from production to infrastructures and sales. ENGIE combines complementary activities: renewable electricity and green gas production, flexibility assets (notably batteries), gas and electricity transmission and distribution networks, local energy infrastructures (heating and cooling networks) and the supply of energy to local authorities and businesses. Every year, ENGIE invests more than $10 billion to drive forward the energy transition and achieve its net zero carbon goal by 2045. ENGIE (ENGI), is listed on the Paris and Brussels Stock Exchanges.  For more information on ENGIE in North America, please visit our website at www.engie-na.com or our LinkedIn page at www.linkedin.com/company/engie-north-america-inc.

About Ares Management 
Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across the credit, real estate, private equity and infrastructure asset classes. We seek to provide flexible capital to support businesses and create value for our stakeholders and within our communities. By collaborating across our investment groups, we aim to generate consistent and attractive investment returns throughout market cycles. As of December 31, 2024, including the acquisition of GCP International which closed on March 1, 2025, Ares Management Corporation’s global platform had over $525 billion of assets under management, with operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. For more information, please visit www.aresmgmt.com.

Contacts:

ENGIE North America
Michael Clingan, External Relations
Michael.clingan@external.engie.com
832-745-6057

Ares Management 
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