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Hiro provides automated security reviews for code and infrastructure, identifying vulnerabilities and generating customer-ready security documentation. The platform serves developers and engineering teams who need to pass customer security assessments.
Also known as Santiago Labs, Inc. · Santiago Labs, Inc., Telophase · Telophase · hirosecure.com
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S23)
Hiro was founded in 2023 by Ethan Blackburn and Daniel Schofield.
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Hiro develops software agents that carry out security and compliance engineering tasks for development teams rather than only reporting problems. The product covers three areas: SOC 2 and compliance, where Hiro takes failing monitors in compliance platforms such as Vanta and Drata and implements the underlying controls; vulnerability management, where it ingests findings from a customer's existing scanners, produces a fix, tests it and deploys it to production; and enterprise readiness, where it runs a continuous program of scanning, review of every code diff, and remediation of vulnerabilities against service-level agreements.
The company positions its approach against conventional scanners, compliance dashboards and AI compliance platforms, which it characterizes as generating additional alerts, tickets and evidence-collection work. Hiro's stated model is to close that work instead: enforcing controls through actual Terraform and API changes and pull requests, triaging alerts automatically so that only items needing human judgment surface, grounding questionnaire answers in the running infrastructure, and giving auditors commits, diffs and timestamps as evidence. Y Combinator describes the company more briefly as "agents that handle security work" and categorizes it under developer tools, B2B and infrastructure.
Business model
Hiro sells a security and compliance automation product to businesses, with self-service onboarding via a 14-day trial offered on its website.
Traction
The company's site names b.well, Conduit, OncoSource, Hyperscale and DB Utility as production users. Y Combinator lists the team size as two.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Hiro operates in the security and compliance automation space, positioning itself alongside and against compliance monitoring platforms such as Vanta and Drata as well as vulnerability scanners and AI compliance tools.
Rather than surfacing alerts, tickets and evidence requests for customers to work through, Hiro states that it executes the remediation itself, enforcing controls in infrastructure code and closing findings, with evidence generated as a by-product of the work performed.
Technology
Agentic software that integrates with compliance monitoring platforms (such as Vanta and Drata) and existing vulnerability scanners, then generates and tests remediations before deploying them. Controls are implemented as code through pull requests and Terraform and API changes, and continuous scanning plus review of each code diff produce evidence in the form of commits, diffs and timestamps.
Go-to-market
Engineering and security teams at companies that must satisfy SOC 2 and similar compliance regimes and meet the security expectations of enterprise buyers.
Geography
Headquartered in New York City, New York.
History
Hiro was founded in 2023 and participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch. It is based in New York City and lists Ethan Blackburn and Daniel Schofield as founders; Y Combinator also lists hirosecure.com as a company URL.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Hiro do?
- Hiro builds AI agents that perform security and compliance work, fixing vulnerabilities and implementing controls in code.
- Who founded Hiro?
- Hiro was founded by Ethan Blackburn, Daniel Schofield in 2023.
- Who are Hiro's investors?
- Hiro's investors include Y Combinator, Makers Fund, OurCrowd, Twenty Two Ventures.
- Where is Hiro headquartered?
- Hiro is headquartered in New York City, US.