Escape, which makes an offensive security engineering platform, announced on 10 March 2026 that it had raised $18m in a Series A round led by Balderton Capital. Uncorrelated Ventures took part, along with existing investors IRIS and Y Combinator.
The announcement coincided with the launch of a new brand identity for the company, according to RegTech Analyst. Neither source reviewed reported a valuation, a total raised or earlier round sizes.
“In a world where code is written and attacked at the speed of AI, this cannot continue.”Tristan Kalos, co-founder and CEO, Escape
What Escape does
SiliconANGLE, which gave the company's legal name as Escape Technologies SAS, said Escape was founded in 2020. Its platform uses AI agents that simulate attacker behaviour to find vulnerabilities arising from application logic, configuration and integrations after code is deployed, and then generates remediation guidance that can be built into engineering workflows. The process is designed to run continuously.
RegTech Analyst listed three core products. Attack Surface Management gives continuous visibility across code and cloud environments. Business-Logic-Aware DAST, which stands for dynamic application security testing, is meant to replace older scanners with context-aware testing that improves over time. AI Pentesting aims to replicate the depth of a senior penetration tester running continuously and at scale.
SiliconANGLE said typical uses include testing APIs, validating the security of multitenant applications, finding exposure of sensitive data and evaluating business logic flaws such as insecure direct object references.
Customers and claims
The company says more than 2,000 security teams use its platform worldwide, running more than 300,000 security assessments a month. Customers named in the coverage include BetterHelp, PandaDoc, CyberCube and Arkose Labs. These figures come from Escape and were not independently verified in the sources reviewed.
Co-founder and chief executive Tristan Kalos said security teams are outnumbered and drowning in siloed, manual processes, and that Escape is being built as the offensive security engineering platform to solve that problem at scale.
Why Balderton invested
Suranga Chandratillake, a partner at Balderton Capital, said the days of penetration testing as a sporadic, manually driven process are over. He argued that as the number of software developers, both human and agentic, grows quickly, security teams face a dilemma: rely on legacy scanners that lack the quality of penetration testing, or use manual offensive security teams that cannot scale to the volume of code being written.
In his view, Escape has solved that challenge with what he called the first AI-native offensive security platform, one that combines the scalability of technology with the ingenuity of a security team.
What the money is for
RegTech Analyst reported that the funding will accelerate Escape's expansion of its AI agent capabilities, deepen its agentic penetration-testing functionality and grow the team across engineering, research and go-to-market work in both the US and Europe.
SiliconANGLE described the plan in similar terms, adding that the company wants to scale up its engineering and enterprise go-to-market teams. The sources did not give Escape's headcount or the location of its headquarters, so neither is reported here.
Company website: escape.tech