Attackers use AI to locate and exploit vulnerabilities at machine speed; Hadrian provides an offensive security platform for agents that allows defenders to operate at the same speed.
Amsterdam-based Hadrian has raised an additional $40 million in a Series B round, bringing its total funding to $65 million. The new financing was co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital and Oetker Ventures.
This new capital will be used to fund expansion in EMEA and the US, as well as increasing investment in the company’s engineering and research teams.
Hadrian provides a native AI platform for offensive security that provides detection (via Atlas), validation (via Nova), prioritization and remediation. The company was founded in 2021 by former ethical hackers Rogier Fischer (CEO) and Olivier Beg (Chief Hacking Officer), together with entrepreneur Maurice Clin (Head of Business Development). It develops AI-driven offensive security technology designed to continuously discover, validate and prioritize externally exposed cyber risks by combining continuous threat management and agent penetration testing.
Atlas continuously maps the organization’s external attack surface and uses AI agents to validate which threats are exploitable. Nova offers on-demand agent pen testing.
The purpose is to address the imbalance between manual pentests and adversarial investigations caused by the increasing use of AI by attackers. “Attackers now move at machine speed, but many security teams are years behind. Data shows 87% of organizations still perform manual pen testing,” says Hadrian. During manual penetration testing, it is difficult to distinguish what is important from what is not important when only 0.47% of the vulnerability scanner results are actually exploitable. This means that 99.5% of the alert teams focus on do not require action.
“Everyone can see that AI is changing the threat landscape. It could also be the answer, but most people are focused on automating the wrong parts,” says Fischer. “We’ve been working with LLMs since before they became mainstream, and we know that AI can work much faster than any human offensive security team. That’s why we built a platform that mimics hackers’ attack paths, helping our customers understand their top risks and appropriately prioritize their security resources.”
Hadrian says that by using AI to automate and improve the process, its customers have achieved 10x better visibility into critical risks, 5x better ROI compared to manual pen testing, and 80% faster time to resolution. “Humans set the mission and make the important decisions, while AI does the work in between, providing the coverage, repetition and speed that no team can maintain 24/7,” says Hadrian.
Built by former hackers, Hadrian understands how hackers attack. Its agent system will search for exploitable paths at the same machine speed used by today’s AI-powered attackers. It provides continuous detection, validation and mobilization of an organization’s most critical cyber risks and autonomously verifies remediation.
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