Our story
We built Escape because the attack surface keeps expanding and most security teams are left mapping it alone
One security team covering thousands of developers is overwhelming. We're a team on a big mission: offensive security that works at the speed of engineering, built AI-native from day one.
Our mission
Helping security teams navigate an attack surface that never stops growing
393%
ROI Seen by security teams
Escape was founded in 2020 after one of our co-founders experienced firsthand how a single exposed API could put an entire organization at risk. The surface was vast. The tools to map it didn't exist.
So we built an offensive security platform that explores your attack surface the way an attacker would. Continuously, automatically, and directly inside engineering workflows.
We're not a scanner that runs once a quarter. We want to empower security teams to run a program that keeps pace with every new frontier engineering teams open.
So we built an offensive security platform that explores your attack surface the way an attacker would. Continuously, automatically, and directly inside engineering workflows.
We're not a scanner that runs once a quarter. We want to empower security teams to run a program that keeps pace with every new frontier engineering teams open.
Leadership team
Tristan Kalos
Co-founder & CEO
Ex-AI Researcher at UC Berkeley
Ex-AI Researcher at UC Berkeley
Antoine Carossio
Co-founder & CTO
Ex Security Engineer @Apple
Ex Security Engineer @Apple
Mathieu Rousse
Head of Engineering
Ex Team Lead Engineering @Datadog
Ex Team Lead Engineering @Datadog
Hard problems. Real impact.
You'll work at the frontier
Offensive security is one of the fastest-moving areas in tech. The problems we're solving don't have textbook answers yet.
Your work ships fast
We're small enough that what you build goes live quickly — and large enough that thousands security teams will use it.
We own it
No one waits to be told what to build. If you see a problem, you fix it. If you see an opportunity, you take it.
We do serious security research
We publish deeply technical work on attack vectors, novel vulnerabilities, and the tools we build, including open source.
Two continents.
One team.
One team.
We're based across Europe and the US — close enough to the security teams we protect, wherever they are.
We care about the product and the people using it
Every touchpoint with Escape should feel like it was built by someone who gave a damn.
Backed to build something serious
$18M Series A. The runway and ambition to go after a category Without the bureaucracy of a large company slowing you down.
Backed by the best
Balderton
Multistage venture firm with 25 years of experience supporting Europe's best founders
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Olivier Pomel
Co-founder & CEO
A growth equity firm empowering a new generation of extraordinary visionaries
Renaud Deraison
Co-founder & CEO
Y combinator
Premier startup accelerator
Uncorrelated ventures
Traditional and Decentralized Portfolio. $750M+ AUM across three active funds.
Philippe Langlois
Founder & CEO, Qualys and P1 Security
Frst.vc
Ex-Otium Capital
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Amit Agarwal
Former CPO & President, Datadog General Partner at ICONIQ Capital
Tiny Supercomputer Investment
Earliest Stage Technology Investments
Irregular Expressions
Seasoned software engineering investors
Uri Goldshtein
Founder at The Guild
Kima Ventures
The most active Business Angel in the world
Roxanne Varza
Directrice @ STATION F / Scout @ Sequoia Capital
Mehdi Medjaoui
Founder at ALIAS.dev and APIdays conferences
Victor Coisne
VP Marketing at Strapi
Alexis Monville
Ex-Chief of Staff to the CTO; Red Hat
Amirhossein Malekzadeh
Co-founder & CEO at Logmatic.io
Sam Hatoum
CEO & Founder at Xolvio
Gabriel-James Safar
Co-founder & CEO, Tsuga
Come help us map the unknown
We're looking for people who want to work on hard security problems and ship things that matter to the teams using them every day.
Join our team
Join our team