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Escape Raises $18M Series A from Balderton + YC for AI Agent Offensive Security Testing — First AI-Native GraphQL Security Platform
Escape, an AI-native offensive security engineering platform, closed an $18.01M Series A led by Balderton Capital with participation from IRIS Capital Venture and Y Combinator. The platform deploys AI agents to automate penetration testing and vulnerability discovery across GraphQL APIs — a category previously dominated by manual security auditors and legacy SAST/DAST tools costing 5-10x more. This is a concrete builder move in the security vertical: a two-person-founded company using AI agents to replace specialized human security workflows that previously required a team of senior security engineers.
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