Cybersecurity teams already know they have too many alerts. Hadrian's founding insight is that another list of theoretical vulnerabilities does not solve that problem. Companies need to know which exposures an attacker can actually chain together into a realistic path.
The Amsterdam company built around that distinction. Its platform continuously maps external assets and tests whether weaknesses are exploitable, pushing offensive-security techniques into software that can operate far more frequently than a conventional annual penetration test.
AI changes both sides of the security market
The timing is important because attackers can increasingly automate reconnaissance, exploit discovery and parts of intrusion workflows. Defenders therefore face a speed mismatch if their own testing remains periodic and heavily manual.
Hadrian's product strategy is to use AI in the same adversarial frame: automate discovery, validate likely attack paths and help security teams prioritize the weaknesses that matter most. The promise is fewer false priorities rather than simply more alerts.
The October round moves Hadrian into a new phase
On 6 October 2026 Hadrian announced $40 million of new funding, co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, with existing investors also participating. The company said the round brings total funding to $65 million.
That capital is intended to support international expansion and deepen investment in engineering and research. For a Dutch security company, the US market is especially important because enterprise cyber budgets are larger and the competitive set is more mature.
Amsterdam's advantage is not scale alone
Hadrian fits a broader Dutch pattern: technically specialized B2B companies using Amsterdam as a base while selling globally. The local market is too small to support a company of this ambition on its own, so internationalization is built into the model from the beginning.
The commercial question is whether standalone AI-native offensive security becomes a durable software category or is eventually absorbed into larger security platforms. Hadrian's fundraising suggests investors believe there is enough product depth to build an independent company first.