Hadrian raises $40M to bolster AI offensive security

For best results when printing this announcement, please click on link below: Hadrian Raises $40M to Tackle the AI Hacking Cyber Security Crisis Funding round co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin brings total raised to $65 million Investment supports AI native offensive security platform helping cyber security teams find, validate and remediate exploitable risks before attackers can Hadrian customers have seen 10x increased visibility into critical risks, 5x ROI compared to manual pentesting and 80% faster time to resolution Customers include McKesson, NBC Universal, Francisco Partners, Total Energies, Amadeus, Leroy Merlin, and Damen Shipyard Hadrian ( ), the agentic AI offensive security platform, today announced a $40 million funding round co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin ( ), with participation from existing investors HV Capital ( ), Motive Partners ( ), Picus Capital and Oetker Ventures ( ).

S. and deepen investment in Hadrian's engineering and research teams. The raise comes as AI fundamentally upends the offensive security landscape. News of AI agents escaping test environments and hacking company systems with no human direction have dominated headlines in recent weeks.

In the most recent, Anthropic disclosed that criminals and state-linked groups had used its models to automate whole attack chains and write zero-day exploits. Attackers now move at machine speed, but many security teams are years behind, with data showing that 87% of organizations still run manual pentests. 47% of vulnerability scanner findings proved genuinely exploitable. 5% of the alerts teams focus on need no action.

As such, there is a real market need for a solution that can identify the genuine threats and cut through the noise. Hadrian allows businesses to see security through a hacker’s eyes, mapping the digital footprint, discover risks, and prioritise remediation for security teams to harden their external attack surfaces. Humans set the mission and make the decisions that matter, while AI does the work in between, providing the coverage, repetition and speed that no team can sustain around the clock. To achieve this, Hadrian combines continuous exposure management and agentic penetration testing in one platform, the only vendor to offer this approach.

Atlas continuously maps an organization’s external attack surface and uses purpose-built AI agents to validate which exposures are actually exploitable. Nova provides agentic pentesting on demand on a human-pentest level and beyond. Together, they deliver results that include: 10x greater visibility into critical exposures 80% faster time to resolution 5x ROI compared to manual pentesting Because the two share context, security teams can move from continuous visibility to deeper testing without starting from scratch. Hadrian was founded by Rogier Fischer, Olivier Beg and Maurice Clin.

Fischer and Beg are former teenage ethical hackers turned serial entrepreneurs, with Fischer launching one of Europe’s first crypto-exchanges before working with Beg on Hadrian. They built the company to create offensive security that could operate continuously and at scale, giving teams more reach without taking judgment out of their hands. Rogier Fischer, CEO of Hadrian, said: “Everyone can see that AI is changing the threat landscape. It might also hold the answer, but most people are focused on automating the wrong bits.

We have been working with LLMs since before they went mainstream, and we know that AI can work much faster than any human offensive security team. ” Damien Henault, Managing Director and Partner at Forgepoint Capital International, said: “There are too many vulnerabilities and noise out there for teams to manage, so they need tools that can help them see clearly and think like AI-armed hackers. ” Saumitra Dubey, Partner at SmartFin, said: “Rogier and his team have built an agentic hacking platform that truly stands apart in the offensive cybersecurity space.

Hadrian’s growing enterprise contract values, global customer base and exceptional enterprise retention rates demonstrate both the strength of its product and the team’s ability to execute and win against the largest cybersecurity incumbents. ” Hadrian works with companies in the US and Europe, including Fortune 500 leaders and industry disruptors such as McKesson, NBC Universal, Francisco Partners, Total Energies, Amadeus, Leroy Merlin, and Damen Shipyard. Alessio Setaro, Digital Solutions Leader at Leroy Merlin said: “Leroy Merlin runs large omnichannel operations, and every new solution and digital integration adds to what we have to protect.

Hadrian helps us to find exposed assets when they run out our control and test them the way an attacker would. That gave our team clear priorities. ” Hans Quivooij, CISO at Damen Shipyards said: “Hadrian has changed the way we look at our external attack surface. Instead of relying on periodic assessments and a known inventory, we now have continuous visibility into what an attacker can actually see and potentially exploit.

” Notes to editors: About Hadrian Hadrian’s offensive security platform helps enterprise security teams identify, verify and close security gaps before they can be exploited. Its agentic engine delivers always-on discovery, validation and mobilization of an organization’s most critical cyber risks. Trained by elite hackers, Hadrian adapts to each organization’s environment to continuously probe, discover and validate the risks attackers can actually exploit. Coupled with a proprietary predictive discovery agent™, Hadrian autonomously verifies remediation to deliver an end-to-end solution.

Global customers, including Fortune 500 leaders, rely on Hadrian to prevent sophisticated attacks, fortify defenses and maximize cyber resilience. io and follow Hadrian on LinkedIn About Forgepoint Capital Forgepoint Capital is a leading venture capital firm that partners with transformative cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and infrastructure software companies protecting the digital future. 2 billion in AUM, and an active portfolio of more than 40 companies, the firm brings over 100 years of collective company-building expertise and its global Advisory Council of more than 100 industry leaders to support exceptional entrepreneurs advancing innovation globally.

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and London with a presence in Madrid and Paris, Forgepoint is proud to help category-defining companies reach their market potential. com and follow Forgepoint on LinkedIn About Smartfin Smartfin is a European venture and growth capital firm, headquartered in Brussels, that manages over €600 million in investment commitments. The firm targets early- and growth-stage B2B technology companies across Europe. Founded in 2014, Smartfin distinguishes itself by combining deep investment experience with significant operational expertise, actively supporting its portfolio companies to become international leaders.

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