Escape raises $18M to replace pen-testers with AI agents

"Security teams are outnumbered and managing siloed, manual processes. In a world where code is written and attacked at the speed of AI, this approach is no longer sustainable. Traditional security tools were built for a world where code was written slowly, reviewed carefully, and deployed on a predictable schedule. That world no longer exists."

"Escape published research that scanned more than 5,600 publicly deployed applications built with vibe coding platforms, tools like Lovable, Base44, and Bolt.new that let non-developers build and ship apps by describing what they want in plain English. The results were stark: over 2,000 high-impact vulnerabilities, hundreds of exposed secrets, and cases of personal data sitting exposed in live production systems."

"Escape's platform describes itself as 'offensive security engineering', a deliberate choice of words. Rather than waiting for vulnerabilities to be reported after deployment, its AI agents actively simulate attacker behaviour against live systems: mapping attack surfaces, generating proof-of-exploitation to demonstrate exactly how a flaw can be triggered, then proposing contextualised fixes."

Escape, a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 by French engineers Tristan Kalos and Antoine Carossio, secured $18 million in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital. The funding follows research scanning 5,600 publicly deployed applications built with vibe coding platforms like Lovable, Base44, and Bolt.new, which discovered over 2,000 high-impact vulnerabilities, hundreds of exposed secrets, and exposed personal data in production systems. Escape's platform uses AI agents to simulate attacker behavior against live systems, mapping attack surfaces and generating proof-of-exploitation demonstrations. The company addresses the fundamental mismatch between traditional security tools designed for slow, carefully reviewed code deployment and modern AI-driven development where code is written and attacked at unprecedented speeds.

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