Terra Security Raises $30M Series A to Redefine penetration testing with Agentic-AI

New York / Tel Aviv - September 15, 2025 - Terra Security, the first agentic-AI-powered continuous penetration testing platform with a human-in-the-loop mechanism, has raised a $30M Series A round, led by Felicis with participation from Dell Technologies Capital, SVCI, and existing investors SYN Ventures, LAMA Partners (FKA FXP), and Underscore VC. This brings Terra’s total funding to date to $38M. We’re also excited to welcome Gerhard Eschelbeck, former Google CISO, to our board of directors.

Why Penetration Testing Needs to Change

Penetration testing hasn’t evolved in decades. Most organizations still rely on manual, point-in-time tests that are expensive, slow, and outdated the moment they’re delivered. Automated tools, on the other hand, struggle to mimic real attackers or provide actionable insights at scale. The result: security teams are left with blind spots, hypothetical risks, and vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit faster than defenders can respond.

At Terra, we knew there had to be a better way.

Our Approach: Agentic AI + Human Expertise

Terra combines a swarm of fine-tuned AI agents - each designed to think and act like ethical hackers - with expert human oversight to continuously test an organization’s full attack surface.

• Exploit-driven accuracy: Every finding is validated through real exploitation, not hypothetical scoring.
  
• Business-context aware: Results are mapped directly to each organization’s unique risk profile.
  
• Always-on: Testing runs continuously, not just once or twice a year.
  
• Scalable and accurate: Human-in-the-loop ensures the accuracy, safety and depth of expert pentesters, while the swarm of AI agents brings the scale of automation.
  

This combination delivers actionable insights security teams can trust, helping them focus on fixing the vulnerabilities that matter most.

Momentum Since Our Seed

This raise comes just a few months after our $8M seed round. In that short time, Terra has:

• Launched the first agentic-AI continuous penetration testing platform.
  
• Won the 2025 CrowdStrike & AWS Cybersecurity Accelerator in collaboration with Nvidia, selected by industry leaders as CJ Moses - Amazon CISO, George Kurtz - CrowdStrike CEO and David Reber - NVIDIA CSO.
  
• Expanded our customer and partner base, including multiple Fortune 500 enterprises.
  

The signal from the market is clear: security teams are ready for a new era of offensive testing.

What’s Next

With this new funding, we’ll:

• Expand our platform into agentic-AI-driven red teaming and broader enterprise attack surface coverage.
  
• Grow our R&D and product teams to accelerate innovation in AI-driven offensive security.
  
• Scale our go-to-market presence to bring Terra’s capabilities to more organizations worldwide.
  

We’re just scratching the surface of what’s possible when AI agents work side by side with human experts to secure the world’s most critical systems.

Thank You

We’re incredibly proud of the team behind Terra and grateful to our investors, customers, and partners who share our vision. This is only the beginning - and we’re just getting started. — Shahar Peled, CEO & Co-Founder, Gal Malachi, CTO & Co-Founder, Terra Security

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