AI-powered automated penetration testing and red teaming startup FireCompass has announced raising $20 million in a strategic funding round that brings the total raised by the company close to $30 million.
The fresh funding came from the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) program’s creator EC-Council, as part of its $100M Cybersecurity Innovation Fund.
Founded in 2019, the Bengaluru, India-based FireCompass has built a platform that integrates attack surface management, continuous threat exposure management, network and application penetration testing, penetration testing as a service, and red teaming.
The agentic AI–driven offensive security platform uses thousands of attack playbooks to run real-world attacks in a safe environment to identify exploitable risks.
The multi-stage adversary emulation is aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and the company can identify vulnerability exposure within 24 hours of a new CVE being disclosed.
FireCompass says its solution chains vulnerabilities, performs lateral movement, and validates risks at machine scale, without false positives.
FireCompass will invest the new funds in research and development, hiring new talent across its engineering, research, and customer-facing teams, and expanding its go-to-market operations globally.
“The AI race in cybersecurity isn’t coming—it’s here. Attackers are already using AI to move faster than human defenders can respond. Our AI-driven platform thinks and acts like a real attacker—chaining vulnerabilities, moving laterally, and validating risks continuously at machine scale. It outpaces humans by orders of magnitude,” FireCompass co-founder and CEO Bikash Barai said.
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