Novee Emerges From Stealth With $51.5M to Counter AI Cyberattacks With a Proprietary AI Hacker
Venture Beat covers Novee's launch
Novee, an emerging leader in AI offensive security, today announced its out-of-stealth launch with $51.5 million in total funding, led by YL Ventures, Canaan Partners and Oren Zeev (Zeev Ventures).
Novee closes this gap by transforming elite offensive tradecraft into continuous, AI-driven penetration testing, simulating the sophisticated tactics of real-world hackers. It’s the only penetration testing platform capable of uncovering novel vulnerabilities, including complex business logic flaws that previously only the most advanced manual pentesters could find.
“Traditional DAST tools struggled to surface issues that actually matter to us. We needed testing that could identify more complex vulnerabilities, like server-side request forgery, which scanners just aren’t capable of detecting. Novee filled that gap by consistently uncovering higher-quality findings that we simply weren’t seeing before,” said Robert Kugler, Head of Security, IT and Compliance at Cresta.
Novee’s proprietary AI model outperformed frontier LLMs such as Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 4 Sonnet by over 55% on constrained web exploitation challenges, achieving up to 90% accuracy where general-purpose models typically plateau at around 65%.
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Published on VentureBeat on January 14, 2026
