Hadrian Raises $40 Million for AI Security Expansion
Amsterdam-based cybersecurity company Hadrian has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round to expand its AI-native offensive security platform. The investment brings the company’s total funding to $65 million.
Radwan AbdulhadiEditor and technology writer
Funding will support international expansion
Hadrian said the new Series B financing was co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital and Oetker Ventures. The round adds $40 million to the company’s funding and takes its total raised to $65 million.
The company plans to use the capital to expand its operations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well as the United States. It will also deepen investment in its engineering and research teams, according to information reported by SecurityWeek.
An AI-native approach to offensive security
Hadrian provides an AI-native offensive security platform focused on discovering, validating, prioritizing and helping remediate externally exposed cyber risks. Its technology combines continuous exposure management with agentic penetration testing, allowing organizations to examine potential attack paths on an ongoing basis rather than relying solely on periodic manual assessments.
The company was founded in 2021 by former ethical hackers Rogier Fischer, who serves as chief executive, and Olivier Beg, the company’s chief hacking officer, together with entrepreneur Maurice Clin, head of business development. Hadrian says its products are designed around the ways attackers identify and exploit weaknesses in internet-facing systems.
Atlas maps exposures and Nova tests them
Hadrian’s Atlas product continuously maps an organization’s external attack surface. It uses AI agents to assess which identified exposures may be exploitable, helping security teams distinguish actionable risks from the larger volume of findings produced by conventional scanning tools.
Nova provides on-demand agentic penetration testing. Hadrian describes the system as a way to probe for exploitable pathways at machine speed, while allowing security professionals to define the mission and make the decisions that require human judgment.
The company says its platform also supports ongoing validation and remediation. In its description of the service, Hadrian says the system can autonomously verify whether previously identified risks have been addressed, providing continuous coverage rather than a single point-in-time assessment.
Addressing the speed gap with attackers
Hadrian is positioning its platform against what it describes as a growing imbalance between attackers and defenders. Attackers are increasingly using AI to locate and exploit vulnerabilities at machine speed, while many security teams continue to depend on manual offensive-security processes.
Hadrian says 87% of organizations still conduct manual penetration tests. It also says only 0.47% of vulnerability scanner findings are genuinely exploitable, meaning that most alerts receiving attention may not require action. The company presents automated validation as a way to reduce this noise and focus resources on risks that can lead to meaningful attack paths.
“Attackers now move at machine speed, but many security teams are years behind,” Hadrian said in comments cited by SecurityWeek. The company argues that AI can provide the repetition, coverage and speed that human teams cannot sustain continuously, while people retain control over objectives and consequential decisions.
Company reports customer performance gains
Hadrian claims that customers using its AI-driven approach have achieved 10 times greater visibility into critical risks, a fivefold improvement in return on investment compared with manual penetration tests, and an 80% faster time to resolution. These figures are company-reported claims and were not independently assessed in the supplied source material.
Fischer said Hadrian had worked with large language models before they became mainstream and built a platform that emulates hackers’ attack paths. The stated goal is to help customers understand their most important exposures and prioritize security resources appropriately as AI-assisted attacks continue to accelerate.
The funding places Hadrian among a group of cybersecurity companies developing autonomous or AI-assisted offensive-security products. The company’s expansion plans will focus on extending its platform and technical capabilities rather than changing its stated emphasis on continuous discovery, validation and remediation of external cyber risks.
Sources
- SecurityWeekHadrian Raises $40 Million to Expand Autonomous Offensive Security Platform
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