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Hadrian raises $40M for AI agents that find the weaknesses attackers can exploit

$40M. Hadrian Security just raised a major round to scale agentic penetration testing — and it signals where enterprise security AI is heading.

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Why it matters

Hadrian's funding validates agentic autonomous security testing as a distinct market category. For enterprise security buyers, this means continuous exposure management via AI agents is moving from pilot to procurement — but the vendor landscape is still consolidating.

The key facts

9 to know
  1. Hadrian Security raised $40M in new funding

  2. Dutch offensive security startup

  3. Positioning: continuous exposure management + agentic penetration testing

  4. Vendor claims no competitors offer same combination

  5. Funding tied to international expansion

  6. Company describes product as 'continuous exposure management and agentic penetration testing'

  7. Dutch startup, expanding internationally

  8. Product uses AI agents pointed at internet-facing systems to identify exploitable weaknesses

  9. Claims no other vendor offers this combination

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Publisher excerpt: Dutch offensive security startup Hadrian Security B.V. today announced that it has raised $40 million in new funding to expand its business internationally. Hadrian’s software points artificial intelligence agents at a company’s internet-facing systems to work out which weaknesses an attacker could…
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