Escape, an AI-native offensive security engineering platform, has raised $18m in a Series A funding round led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Uncorrelated Ventures and existing investors IRIS and Y Combinator.
The funding will be used to accelerate Escape’s mission to expand its AI agent capabilities, deepen its platform’s agentic pentesting functionality, and grow its team across engineering, research, and go-to-market operations in both the US and Europe. The announcement coincides with the launch of a new brand identity for the company.
Escape’s platform comprises three core products: Attack Surface Management, which provides continuous visibility across code and cloud environments; Business-Logic-Aware DAST, which replaces legacy dynamic application security testing with context-aware, continuously improving testing; and AI Pentesting, which aims to replicate the depth of a senior pentester running continuously and at scale.
The company says it is trusted by more than 2,000 security teams globally, including BetterHelp, PandaDoc, CyberCube, and Arkose Labs.
Balderton Capital partner Suranga Chandratillake said, “The days of pen-testing being a sporadic, manually driven process are over. As the number of software developers (both human and agentic) explodes, security teams find themselves with an impossible dilemma: rely on legacy scanners, knowing they do not have the quality of pen-testing or continue to work with manual offensive security teams and fail to scale to the volume of code being written.
“Escape has solved this challenge with the world’s first AI-native, offensive security platform that blends the scalability and relentless capacity of technology with the ingenuity of your security team.”
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