Pentera
Founded 2015 (ex-Pcysys); automated security validation — pentest, red-team, attack-surface validation. $60M Series D Jan-2024 ($1B val unicorn; Evolution Equity + K1). Israeli cyber pedigree; more mature than 2024-vintage GenAI pentest agents.
At a glance
- Type
- Automated security validation / pentest platform
- Tier
- T3
- Created
- 2015 (founded as Pcysys; rebranded Pentera 2021)
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section
- License
- not applicable — not OSS
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo
- Pricing
- not applicable — wrong section
- Funding
- $60M Series D Jan-2024 ($1B val unicorn)
Taxonomy
- storage
- none-trivial
- retrieval
- none
- persistence
- session-only
- update
- agent-controlled
- unit
- turn
- governance
- opaque
- conflict
- out-of-scope
When to use
Optimised for: continuous automated pentest + security validation
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Unicorn-stage; 1000+ enterprise customers; established outside the 2024-AI-agent wave; mature platform.
Cons
More traditional automated-pentest than LLM-agent first; less hype than XBOW; the 'AI' framing is a recent overlay.
Claims & capabilities
$60M Series D Jan-2024 ($1B val); >$100M ARR reported; 1000+ enterprise customers
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- not applicable — wrong section
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- not applicable — wrong section
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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