Hadrian raises $40M to tackle AI-driven cyber threats

Hadrian has pulled in $40 million in new funding, with Forgepoint Capital International and Smart Fin co-leading the round. Existing backers HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital and Oetker Ventures also joined in. That lifts the company’s total funding to $65 million.

The pitch is straightforward: use AI to help security teams find exploitable weaknesses before attackers do. Hadrian, founded by Rogier Fischer, Olivier Beg and Maurice Clin, is building an offensive security platform that maps a company’s external attack surface, spots possible risks and helps teams decide what to fix first.

That matters because the company sees two pressures hitting at once. Attackers are increasingly using AI to automate parts of their work, while many defenders still rely on manual penetration testing. On top of that, security teams are buried in vulnerability alerts and have to sort the genuinely dangerous exposures from the noise.

Hadrian’s platform is split into two products. Atlas continuously maps the external attack surface and uses purpose-built AI agents to identify which exposures can actually be exploited. Nova handles on-demand agentic penetration testing. Because both products share context, teams can move from broad monitoring to deeper testing without starting over.

The company says its technology gives ten times greater visibility into critical exposures, cuts time to resolution by 80 per cent and delivers a fivefold return on investment versus manual penetration testing. Fischer says the company has been working with LLMs before they went mainstream, and that AI can move faster than any human offensive security team. Hadrian already works with customers including McKesson, NBC Universal, Francisco Partners, Total Energies, Amadeus, Leroy Merlin and Damen Shipyard, and plans to use the funding to expand across EMEA and the US while putting more money into engineering and research.