About Novee

Elite AI Hackers Aren't Born. They're Trained.

How We Started

The Novee founding team spent decades in offensive and defensive cybersecurity at the national level. They discovered and closed critical vulnerabilities that could compromise national infrastructure, and led operations that demanded the highest level of technical capability.

Through that work, they watched enterprises face an impossible bind: shipping code continuously while testing security only a few times a year, even as attackers operate around the clock.

In 2024, when OpenAI released the first AI that could genuinely reason through complex problems, co-founders Ido Geffen, Gon Chalamish, and Omer Ninburg saw that it was finally possible to build an AI agent that hacks with human-level sophistication. They founded Novee in May 2025 to clone their combined expertise into a proprietary AI system that runs continuously: finding the zero-days, business logic flaws, and chained attack paths that traditional tools miss, proving what’s actually exploitable, and closing the loop with verified fixes. That system trains and sharpens inside the Novee Gym, our continuous benchmarking and optimization environment. Since then, Novee has grown to serve dozens of enterprise and mid-market security teams globally.

How The Novee Gym Works

The Novee Gym is where we test our full AI system – proprietary model, frontier models, and harness – across thousands of real applications, score every exploit, and use the results to continuously optimize for six metrics: precision (how many findings are real), recall (how many vulnerabilities we find), and quality (correct, reproducible, actionable) to be the best, and cost (low enough to run continuously), speed (hours, not days), and safety (no harm to your environment) to scale. As new frontier models ship, we evaluate them in the same Gym and route every task to the best-performing one.

The result is that you’re always ahead of attackers and AI, running the best model and the most specialized capabilities for every task.

Our Investors

Our leadership

Novee is built by cybersecurity professionals, AI researchers, and go-to-market operators with real-world experience attacking and defending at the nation-state level.

Ido Geffen

Co-Founder & CEO

20+ years in vulnerability exploitation and defense (10 years offensive, 10 years defensive). Lifelong expertise in finding and closing security gaps at the highest levels.

Gon Chalamish

Co-Founder & CPO

Led strategic campaigns at the nation-state level. Expert in translating offensive intelligence into defensive capabilities.

Omer Ninburg

Co-Founder & CTO

Pioneer in ML and agentic systems. Built the technical foundation for cloning human expertise into AI.

Niko Burger

VP R&D

18 years leading high-stakes R&D at the Prime Minister’s Office. Took Novee from zero to a patent-pending AI model and production platform in months.

Patrick Kelley

VP Sales

25+ years selling security to enterprise and large-enterprise organizations across penetration testing, managed services, and core security tech. Knows how security decisions actually get made.

Arad Offer

VP Finance

Finance leader with a decade-plus in high-growth tech, most recently VP Finance at Lightrun and Syte. Builds and scales finance operations from early stage through rapid international growth.

Netta Rager Dan

VP Product

Cybersecurity product leader, most recently at Claroty and a founding force behind Medigate’s product. Turns complex security capabilities into products teams actually rely on.

Netta Kivilis

VP Marketing

20+ years in B2B marketing and demand generation, working with dozens of enterprise-scale and early-stage startups. Career expertise in building marketing operations from zero and driving pipeline at the highest levels.

Alon Luria

Head of Operations

Leads operations at Novee, building the systems and rhythm that let an elite team scale to meet enterprise-scale deep security testing demand.

Dan Padnos

Head of AI

Platform leader at AI21 Labs, where he built the first LLM API alternative to OpenAI’s Platform using proprietary models. Led its post-training and alignment; now sharpens Novee’s offensive AI stack, model and harness.

Nir Waintrob

Head of Customer Success

Scaled customer success organizations in cybersecurity at Cylus and CyCognito. Knows the security buyer and what turns a promising product into a program customers depend on.

Our broader team includes veteran zero-day researchers and AI experts from top-tier organizations. Combined, we bring hundreds of years of nation-state level security experience.

Train with us

We’re looking for exceptional people to help train the world’s best offensive AI. If you’re passionate about cybersecurity and AI, we’d love to hear from you.