Escape, an AI-native offensive security engineering platform trusted by more than 2,000 security teams globally, has raised $18m in a Series A funding round led by Balderton Capital.
Uncorrelated Ventures joined the round alongside existing investors IRIS and Y Combinator.
The funding will be used to deepen the platform’s AI agent capabilities, expand agentic pentesting functionality, and grow the team across engineering, research, and go-to-market in the US and Europe. The announcement coincides with a new brand identity for the company.
Escape’s platform delivers three products: Attack Surface Management, which provides continuous visibility across code and cloud environments; Business-Logic-Aware DAST, which replaces legacy scanning with continuously improving, context-aware testing; and AI Pentesting, which offers the depth of a senior pentester running continuously at scale.
The company counts BetterHelp, PandaDoc, CyberCube, and Arkose Labs among its customers. One customer reported a 393% ROI after reducing its security testing cycle from five days to five hours.
Balderton Capital partner Suranga Chandratillake said, “The days of pen-testing being a sporadic, manually driven process are over. As the number of software developers (both human and agentic) explodes, security teams find themselves with an impossible dilemma: rely on legacy scanners, knowing they do not have the quality of pen-testing or continue to work with manual offensive security teams and fail to scale to the volume of code being written.
“Escape has solved this challenge with the world’s first AI-native, offensive security platform that blends the scalability and relentless capacity of technology with the ingenuity of your security team.”
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