Armadin Launches With $190M to Automate Red-Teaming With AI

Vendor Combines AI Attack Agents, Human Experts to Simulate Real-World Cyberattacks Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • March 11, 2026

A startup led by Kevin Mandia emerged from stealth with nearly $190 million to transform penetration testing and red-teaming through autonomous artificial intelligence agents.

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The Accel-led Seed and Series A rounds will help San Francisco-based Armadin develop AI agents trained on expert red-team methodologies to continuously test environments at scale, said co-founder and Chief Offensive Security Officer Evan Pena. He said agent orchestration, swarm architectures and inter-agent communication protocols are now able to replicate complex offensive security workflows.

"A lot of what you were seeing was mostly around chatbots and LLMs taking in a lot of text and being able to give you advice and reporting," Pena told Information Security Media ...