Hadrian Raises $40M to Tackle the AI Hacking Cyber Security Crisis

Hadrian, the agentic AI offensive security platform, led by Rogier Fischer, Maurice Clin, and Olivier Beg, has announced a $40 million funding round co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital, and Oetker Ventures, bringing the total funding to $65M.

The funding comes as AI reshapes offensive security. AI agents are increasingly capable of conducting cyberattacks with limited human direction, while 87% of organizations still rely on manual penetration testing.

Security teams also face a growing signal-to-noise problem: more than 70% struggle to identify which exposures are genuinely exploitable, with just 0.47% of vulnerability scanner findings proving exploitable.

Hadrian aims to address this gap by giving businesses an attacker’s view of their digital footprint, identifying risks, and prioritizing remediation across external attack surfaces. Humans set the objectives and make key decisions, while AI provides the speed, coverage, and continuous testing needed to keep pace with modern threats.

Hadrian combines continuous exposure management with agentic penetration testing in a single platform. Atlas continuously maps an organization’s external attack surface and uses AI agents to validate exploitable exposures, while Nova provides on-demand agentic penetration testing at human-pentest level and beyond.

Together, the platform claims 10x greater visibility into critical exposures, 80% faster resolution, and 5x the ROI of manual pentesting. Shared context allows security teams to move from continuous monitoring to deeper testing without starting from scratch.

Hadrian was founded by Rogier Fischer, Olivier Beg, and Maurice Clin. Fischer and Beg, both former ethical hackers and serial entrepreneurs, built the company around the goal of delivering continuous, scalable offensive security while keeping humans in control of key decisions.

Rogier Fischer, CEO of Hadrian, said: “Everyone can see that AI is changing the threat landscape. It might also hold the answer, but most people are focused on automating the wrong bits. We have been working with LLMs since before they went mainstream, and we know that AI can work much faster than any human offensive security team. So we built a platform that emulates hackers’ attack paths, helping our customers to understand their key risks and prioritise their security resources appropriately.”

Damien Henault, Managing Director and Partner at Forgepoint Capital International, said: “There are too many vulnerabilities and noise out there for teams to manage, so they need tools that can help them see clearly and think like AI-armed hackers. Hadrian’s AI native always-on solution delivers both depth and breadth and helps its customers to focus on genuine issues and risks, and the companies using its platform are testament to both its innovative approach and the strength of its team, both aspects which make them a natural choice for us to back.” 

Saumitra Dubey, Partner at SmartFin, said: “Rogier and his team have built an agentic hacking platform that truly stands apart in the offensive cybersecurity space. Hadrian’s growing enterprise contract values, global customer base and exceptional enterprise retention rates demonstrate both the strength of its product and the team’s ability to execute and win against the largest cybersecurity incumbents. This funding comes at a pivotal moment, accelerating Hadrian’s next phase of growth as we support its ambition to become a global cybersecurity leader and build a nine-figure revenue business.”

Alessio Setaro, Digital Solutions Leader at Leroy Merlin said: “Leroy Merlin runs large omnichannel operations, and every new solution and digital integration adds to what we have to protect. Hadrian helps us to find exposed assets when they run out our control and test them the way an attacker would. That gave our team clear priorities. We're glad to see Hadrian raise this round and keep building.” 

Hans Quivooij, CISO at Damen Shipyards said: “Hadrian has changed the way we look at our external attack surface. Instead of relying on periodic assessments and a known inventory, we now have continuous visibility into what an attacker can actually see and potentially exploit. For a global organisation like Damen, that ability to discover unknown exposures and focus our teams on the risks that really matter is where Hadrian delivers its value.”

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