Escape raises $18M
Escape announced a Series A round of $18M on 10 March 2026. The company operates in Cybersecurity and is based in United Kingdom. It was founded by Tristan Kalos, CEO & Co-founder.
Founder
Tristan Kalos
CEO & Co-founder, Escape
Outreach angles
- -Tristan Kalos met co-founder Antoine Carossio at UC Berkeley during an entrepreneurship program, combining machine learning and cybersecurity backgrounds from day one.
- -Kalos has been publishing applied security research since founding Escape in 2020, building a community of 2,000+ security teams before raising Series A.
- -Escape's $18M Balderton-led round will fund global expansion of its AI-powered pentesting agents, replacing legacy scanners across enterprise engineering pipelines.
Signals
Series AYC BackedAI-NativeB2BEnterpriseHiringAPI-First
Round details
Company: Escape
Domain: escape.tech
Amount: $18M
Stage: Series A
Industry: Cybersecurity
Country: United Kingdom
Announced: 10 March 2026
Other Cybersecurity raises
Recently funded in United Kingdom