How Armadin is Combating the Era of AI-Driven Hyperattacks

Armadin, expert AI cybersecurity and cyber defense company, led by Kevin Mandia, Travis Lanham, Evan Peña, David Slater, and the team, has raised an industry record $189.9 million in Seed and Series A funding led by Accel, with participation from Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Menlo Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and follow-on investment from 8VC and Ballistic Ventures, marking the largest combined Seed and Series A funding round in cybersecurity history. Armadin’s mission is to prepare organizations for the speed and scale of AI-driven threats.

Closing the Hyperattack Gap

The rise of AI-powered attackers has accelerated the emergence of “hyperattacks”, complex, multi-modal campaigns that operate at machine speed. Traditional human-led defenses are increasingly unable to keep pace, creating a widening security gap.

Armadin addresses this challenge with a unified platform designed to identify, validate, and remediate exploitable risks at scale. CEO Kevin Mandia noted that as cyberattacks become machine-speed, effective defense must also become autonomous rather than relying on humans for every decision.

An Agentic Attacker Swarm

Unlike traditional scanners, Armadin uses specialized AI agents that simulate advanced attackers, providing clear evidence of exploitable risks.

Ping Li, Partner at Accel, said Armadin stands out for applying an attacker’s perspective to strengthen enterprise defense. By combining the operational experience of CEO Kevin Mandia with an advanced AI engineering team, the company is building an autonomous system that gives boards and CISOs a comprehensive view of security posture.

Evan Peña, Founder and Chief Offensive Security Officer at Armadin, said the most accurate measure of security has always come from an offensive perspective. By embedding decades of human red-teaming expertise into AI models, the platform enables systems that continuously learn attacker tactics and increasingly outperform human operators.

Travis Lanham, Founder and CTO at Armadin, said security expertise is often scarce when organizations need it most. The company’s AI agents are designed to replicate the capabilities of world-class red teams, continuously reasoning and adapting to identify exploitable risks at machine speed and help organizations prepare for the next wave of AI-driven hyperattacks.

Armadin’s founding team brings together elite red-teaming experts and AI researchers under the leadership of Kevin Mandia, who maintains long-standing relationships with Fortune 100 companies, federal law enforcement, and defense organizations.