We’re excited to announce our investment in Novee, which today emerged from stealth with $51.5 million in funding to build an AI-native penetration testing platform for a fundamentally new threat environment.
Cybersecurity is entering a phase where continuous defense is table stakes, not a differentiator. Attackers can now use AI to generate and weaponize threats at machine speed, fundamentally changing what effective defense requires. The window between discovery and exploitation has collapsed from weeks to days — and increasingly, hours. New platforms, built from the ground up for this reality, will define the next generation of security infrastructure.
Novee exists because its founders understood this gap early and built a platform designed to address it.
Penetration testing has existed for decades, and for good reason. It remains one of the most effective ways organizations understand how their systems fail under real-world attack and proactively address security gaps. But the environment it was designed for has changed.
Software is now built and deployed continuously. Infrastructure is dynamic. And attackers are increasingly using AI to discover and exploit vulnerabilities faster than defenders can respond. What once took weeks or days is now happening in hours — and soon, seconds.
In that world, episodic security testing no longer holds.
For years, penetration testing has relied on scarce human expertise. Highly skilled practitioners can uncover subtle, high-impact vulnerabilities — particularly complex business-logic flaws — but the model doesn’t scale. Tests happen periodically. Coverage is partial. Findings arrive after the fact. As attack velocity increases, the gap between discovery and exploitation keeps shrinking.
This is where AI changes what’s possible.
Not because penetration testing suddenly becomes easy to automate — it doesn’t — but because AI can finally be applied in a way that reflects how real attackers operate. Offensive security is adversarial, contextual, and adaptive. Success depends on chaining exploits, adapting to changing environments, and continuously probing systems for new attack paths.
Novee is built around that reality.
Led by founders Ido Geffen (CEO), Gon Chalamish (CPO), and Omer Ninburg (CTO), the Novee team brings deep experience operating in some of the most advanced offensive security environments worldwide. That background matters. AI is only as effective as the expertise used to train it, and in offensive security, knowing the landscape makes all the difference. Novee’s approach is to encode elite attacker intuition into purpose-trained AI agents, turning the tactics of top human pentesters into software that can operate continuously.
The result is a platform that doesn’t just identify known issues, but uncovers novel vulnerabilities, validates exploitability, and helps teams remediate problems before attackers can act. Instead of periodic assessments, organizations gain continuous insight into how their systems behave under attack.
What excites us about Novee is that it represents a structural shift in how penetration testing is delivered — from episodic and human-bound to continuous and software-driven. As AI reshapes both offense and defense, this transition feels less like an option and more like a necessity.
Novee is early, but the direction is clear. We’re excited to back a team with deep offensive expertise, a thoughtful approach to applying AI, and the urgency to meet this moment.