Hackuity raises €16 million to automate

Hackuity, a Lyon-based AI-powered Vulnerability Operations Center platform, has raised €16 million in a funding round led by Forgepoint Capital International. The financing, which included participation from existing investors Bright Pixel, Bpifrance, and Seventure Partners, brings the company's total funding to €32 million.

CEO and co-founder Patrick Ragaru stated that the investment validates the company's founding thesis. "Hackuity was founded on a simple conviction: the volume of vulnerabilities would outpace any human’s capacity to respond," he said. The company argues that AI-powered discovery tools are creating a flood of security findings that traditional teams cannot manage.

The vulnerability tsunami

The funding announcement coincides with what the industry calls a "vulnerability tsunami." Hackuity cites the example of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, which identified over 10,000 high or critical severity flaws in under two months, with 99% remaining unpatched. The broader landscape includes 350,000 known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, a figure that has grown 20% year-over-year.

Despite heavy investment in detection tools, security teams are overwhelmed by fragmented data and disconnected workflows. Hackuity's platform aims to solve this by aggregating data from more than 130 security tools. It then applies a proprietary risk scoring engine that analyses severity, exploitability, threat intelligence, and business impact to determine remediation priorities.

European cybersecurity investment landscape

The round is part of a significant wave of investment in European cybersecurity and AI-enabled security infrastructure in 2026. According to the source, EU-Startups, several comparable funding rounds have been announced this year.

Other notable financings include NeuralTrust's €17.2 million Seed round for enterprise AI-agent security and Cloudsmith's €61.5 million Series C for software supply-chain security. Before Hackuity's announcement, EU-Startups calculated approximately €395.4 million had been raised across similar European rounds in 2026.

Platform impact and customer adoption

Founded in 2018, Hackuity now powers vulnerability operations for more than 6,000 users, protecting over 2 million assets and managing 1 billion findings. Its customers include major corporations like ENGIE and BPCE. The company reports that its platform enables significant operational gains for clients.

These reported gains include reducing critical vulnerability noise to 0.01%, improving mean-time-to-remediate by a factor of three, and automating up to 70% of full exposure management activities. Omar Abdelmoumen, Head of Cyber Defence at ENGIE, explained the platform's value. "The challenge isn’t discovering vulnerabilities anymore but understanding which ones matter most," he said.

Damien Henault, Managing Director at lead investor Forgepoint Capital International, framed the investment as a response to a new era in cybersecurity. "Organisations can no longer rely on traditional vulnerability management approaches to keep pace with the speed and scale of modern threats," he stated. The firm, which has headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and was founded in 1983, is known for its focus on technology startups.

Hackuity intends to use the new capital to accelerate product innovation, enhance its AI capabilities, and pursue international expansion across Europe and Asia. Cyril Demonceaux of Orange Cyberdefense, which has selected Hackuity for its Exposure Management portfolio, noted the platform helps companies "transform the complexity of vulnerabilities into clear priorities."