Offensive cybersecurity startup Escape today announced raising $18 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to over $23 million.
The new investment round was led by Balderton, with additional support from Uncorrelated Ventures and previous investors IRIS and Y Combinator.
Founded in 2020, Paris, France-based Escape aims to automate the entire offensive security lifecycle with AI agents that continuously discover, test, and fix vulnerabilities directly within workflows.
Escape’s platform automates attack-surface discovery, security testing, and remediation, ensuring systems continue to operate while vulnerabilities are identified and fixed.
The company says it is already working with more than 2,000 teams globally.
The new investment will allow Escape to deepen its platform’s AI capabilities, adding application logic reasoning to agentic pentesting. The company also looks to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams across Europe and North America.
“Security teams are outnumbered and drowning in siloed, manual processes. In a world where code is written and attacked at the speed of AI, this cannot continue. We are building Escape as the offensive security engineering platform to solve that problem at scale,” said Escape co-founder and CEO Tristan Kalos.
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