Company

Rethink Application Security

We’re building Sybil, an autonomous system of agents that thinks like an attacker. Sybil continuously probes live applications the way a real hacker would, validates what they find, and suggests the fix, keeping pace with how fast developers ship code. Teams close the gaps before anyone else finds them.

See Sybil in action

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$40M
Series A, March 2026
Led by:
khosla ventures
With:
Elad Gil
Mission

Automate hacker intuition

We help companies close security gaps as fast as they ship code.

Leadership

Our leadership

Ari Herbert-Voss

Ari Herbert-Voss

CEO/Cofounder
  • 1st security hire @ OpenAI
  • Harvard ML PhD dropout
  • Core research contributor to GPT-3 and Codex
Vlad Ionescu

Vlad Ionescu

CTO/Cofounder
  • Red Teamer @ Mandiant, NCC Group
  • Offensive Security Tech Lead @ Meta
  • Founder of Red Team X
  • Core Llama offensive research lead
Austin Zheutlin

Austin Zheutlin

COO
  • Former Chief of Staff/Head of Ops @ Trail of Bits
  • Product/Operations at Series B/C Startups
  • ex-Meta Election Integrity Ops
Our story

Built by researchers
Driven by conviction

Ari ran frontier research on large language models at OpenAI, and Vlad ran the red team at Meta. Both came away with the same conclusion: AI can hack. Paired with security engineers, it produces faster, higher-quality results than people working alone.

So they set out to redefine offensive security. The team they've built brings together AI research, internal and consulting red teaming, engineering at FAANG and leading self-driving car companies, and data science across the private and public sectors.

With researchers from:
Our values

A culture built for builders

Our values shape how we work, what we build, and the kind of team we're proud to be. Pick one to run it.

01
How we move
Collaborative autonomy

We move with purpose, together. Nobody operates in a silo — not our team, agents, or customers.

02
How we try new things
Serious play

We take the work seriously and ourselves lightly. The fun is functional. It gives us the confidence to try new things without fear. We mean it and we meme it.

03
How we grow
Shared depth

We build deep expertise and share it generously, so our team and customers can leave every conversation more capable than when they came in.

Come as you are

We're hiring hackers, builders, researchers, creatives, and operators, with hubs in New York and San Francisco.