Hadrian

Cybersecurity · Artificial Intelligence · Enterprise Software

Funding

Hadrian raises $40M to build AI agents that outpace AI-powered hackers

Most security teams still run manual penetration tests while attackers already let AI automate entire attack chains.

• Hadrian raised $40 million in a round co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, bringing its total funding to $65 million.
• Founded in Amsterdam in 2021 by Rogier Fischer, Olivier Beg and Maurice Clin, Hadrian builds an agentic AI platform that finds, validates and helps remediate exploitable security risks before attackers can.
• The platform pairs Atlas, which continuously maps an organization's external attack surface and flags exploitable exposures, with Nova, which runs on-demand agentic penetration tests using shared context.
• Hadrian says customers get 10x more visibility into critical risks, 5x ROI versus manual pentesting, and 80% faster time to resolution, with its agents running over 100 million attack simulations daily.
• The raise follows Anthropic's disclosure that criminal and state-linked groups used its Claude models to automate whole attack chains and write zero-day exploits.
• Hadrian cites data showing 87% of organizations still rely on manual pentests, even though only 0.47% of vulnerability scanner findings turn out to be genuinely exploitable.
• The funding will support expansion across EMEA and the U.S. and deepen investment in Hadrian's engineering and research teams.
• As AI lets attackers automate entire intrusion chains, offensive security is shifting from periodic human pentesting toward continuous, machine-speed validation of real exploitable risk.