Escape blog · Jul 2026
Escape shipped prompt-to-agent remediation workflows for Cursor/Claude/Codex and live reasoning logs for Cascade, positioning the product around faster fix handoffs and auditability.
The only DAST that works with modern stack and tests business logic
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Escape is a YC W23, venture-backed AI-powered offensive security engineering platform. It helps AppSec and engineering teams continuously discover, test, and remediate vulnerabilities across web apps, APIs, and microservices using AI agents, with a particular focus on business-logic-aware testing and remediation.
Primary product
AI-powered offensive security engineering platform
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
30-40
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Computer and Network Security
Sub-industry
Application Security / Offensive Security / API Security
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States (HQ)
New York City, NY, United States
Paris, France
Business model
SaaS
enterprise software
quote-based B2B security platform
Funding
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$24M
Latest round
Series A · Mar 2026
Latest amount
$18M
Mar 2026 · Balderton Capital
Jun 2023 · IRIS
Feb 2023
Oct 2020
Sep 2020 · Frst
Jan 2020
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Alexandra Charikova
Head of Growth
Offensive Security Lead
Founding Sales Engineer
Head of Channels
Maxence Lecanu
Technical Lead
Mathieu Rousse
Head of Engineering
Gabin Fouquet
Security Product Owner
Work & culture
Research-driven and customer-first, with a strong in-house engineering and offensive-security culture. Escape publicly shares experiments, focuses on fast CI/CD integration, and emphasizes reducing security-team bottlenecks through AI agents and automation.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public job listings show roughly €58k-€100k base ranges for Paris technical roles with 0.05% equity on some positions, and roughly $50k-$400k ranges across NYC/US sales and go-to-market roles, indicating market-competitive, role-specific compensation with equity for some technical hires.
Benefits
Competitive salary bands
Equity grants on some technical roles
Hybrid/remote flexibility on some roles
Opportunity to work on AI security research
Presence across Paris and New York offices
Product & market
Pricing
Sales-led, quote-based enterprise SaaS with demo/schedule-a-call motion
Differentiators
- —Business-logic-aware DAST instead of payload-only scanning
- —AI-agentic pentesting that reasons through multi-step attack paths
- —Attack Surface Management plus remediation in one platform
- —No agent install and no traffic monitoring required
- —Code-to-cloud correlation and production-safe external scanning
- —Remediation snippets tailored to source code and developer workflows
- —Public research and reproducible findings from real applications
- —CLI, API, and MCP automation for security workflows
Technology
OpenAI
Anthropic
Google
open-weight models
React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
GraphQL
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
PostgreSQL
Redis
GitLab
Playwright
Auth0
Grafana
Ansible
Customers
BetterHelp
PandaDoc
CyberCube
Arkose Labs
Zoom
Schibsted
Wiz
Bridgetech Group
Competitors
Burp Suite
OWASP ZAP
Astra Security
Aptori
XBOW
traditional DAST scanners
manual pentesting firms
bug bounty programs
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
47.9K
Traffic estimate as of Jan 2026
Latest news
Escape blog · Jun 2026
Escape published a technical write-up showing Cascade finding an unauthenticated RCE and adapting payloads to bypass a WAF, illustrating the platform’s source-aware exploitation workflow.
Escape blog · Jun 2026
A customer case study describes Bridgetech using Escape for authenticated DAST and API coverage, replacing some manual pentest evidence with on-demand reports and developer-friendly findings.
Escape blog · May 2026
Escape described a co-designed deployment with a fintech customer to model multi-user business logic flows, expand attack-path visualization, and support continuous API security testing.
Escape blog · Mar 2026
Escape announced an $18M Series A led by Balderton Capital with participation from Uncorrelated Ventures, IRIS, and Y Combinator. The post frames Escape as an offensive security engineering platform and says the new funding will accelerate agentic pentesting and team growth.
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