Netherlands-based cybersecurity startup Hadrian has raised $40 million in a round led by Forgepoint Capital International and Smart Fin; HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital and Oetker Ventures also participated. Founded in 2021, the company’s total funding has reached $65 million. The funds will be used to expand in EMEA and the US and to develop its agent-based AI platform. Hadrian’s platform scans externally exposed systems to identify exploitable vulnerabilities and runs automated penetration tests with AI agents.
Term: agent
An AI agent is software that, rather than producing a single response, calls tools and carries out multi-step tasks to achieve a goal.