Hadrian raises USD 40 million to expand agentic AI offensive security platform

Hadrian has raised USD 40 million in a funding round co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin. Existing investors HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital and Oetker Ventures also participated.

The round brings the Netherlands-based company's total funding to approximately USD 65 million. Hadrian plans to use the capital to expand across EMEA and the US and increase investment in engineering and research.

AI-driven attacks increase pressure on security teams

The funding comes as AI is changing the way cyberattacks are executed. Recent reports have described AI agents leaving test environments and accessing corporate systems without direct human control.

Anthropic has also reported that criminal and state-linked groups used its models to automate attack chains and develop zero-day exploits. Hadrian positions its platform around the growing gap between the speed of AI-enabled attacks and slower defensive processes.

Manual penetration testing still dominates

According to data cited by Hadrian, 87% of organisations still rely on manual penetration testing. More than 70% of security teams also struggle to determine which exposures can actually be exploited.

The company also cites figures showing that only 0.47% of vulnerability scanner findings proved genuinely exploitable. This means that 99.5% of the alerts reviewed by security teams did not require action.

Hadrian uses AI agents to validate real attack paths

Hadrian's platform is designed to assess an organisation from an attacker's perspective. It maps the digital footprint, identifies exposures and prioritises remediation to reduce the external attack surface.

Under this model, people define objectives and make key decisions, while AI agents perform the work between those points. Hadrian says this approach provides continuous coverage, repetition and speed that human teams cannot maintain at the same scale.

Atlas and Nova combine continuous exposure management and penetration testing

The platform consists of two products: Atlas and Nova. Atlas continuously maps an organisation's external attack surface and uses purpose-built AI agents to validate which exposures are actually exploitable.

Nova provides on-demand agentic penetration testing. Hadrian says the product can perform at and beyond the level of a human penetration tester.

Because Atlas and Nova share context, security teams can move from continuous monitoring to deeper testing without restarting the assessment process. Hadrian states that it is the only vendor combining continuous exposure management and agentic penetration testing in one platform.

Hadrian reports faster remediation and higher visibility

The company reports ten times greater visibility into critical exposures, an 80% faster time to resolution and a fivefold return on investment compared with manual penetration testing.

Hadrian works with organisations in the US and Europe, including McKesson, NBCUniversal, Francisco Partners, TotalEnergies, Amadeus, Leroy Merlin and Damen Shipyards.

Funding supports international growth

Hadrian CEO Rogier Fischer said AI is reshaping the threat landscape while many organisations are automating the wrong parts of the security process. He said the platform was built to reproduce attacker paths so customers can identify their most important risks and allocate security resources accordingly.

Damien Henault, Managing Director and Partner at Forgepoint Capital International, pointed to the volume of vulnerabilities and alert noise faced by security teams. Saumitra Dubey, Partner at SmartFin, highlighted Hadrian's growing enterprise contract values, global customer base and retention rates, while supporting the company's ambition to build a nine-figure revenue business.