SafeHill
Techstars '23Fircrest, US · 3 known investors
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SafeHill is a cybersecurity company that combines AI and human ethical hackers to help security teams identify and prioritize real security exposures and attack paths. The platform targets security teams and CISOs seeking threat exposure management and penetration testing validation without alert fatigue.
Founders & leadership
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Mike PenainCEO/FounderMike Pena is CEO and founder of SafeHill, a cybersecurity platform combining AI and human ethical hackers for threat exposure management. Previously, he held executive roles including COO and CMO at healthcare SaaS company Circe Software, founded venture-backed commodity exchange Autoref.com, and worked as an equity trader at Trust Company of the West; he holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Pepperdine University.
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Hector MonsegurinChief Research Officer/FounderHector Monsegur is Chief Research Officer and co-founder at SafeHill, a cybersecurity company focused on threat exposure management. He previously worked in network security and threat research, and co-hosts the podcast Hacker and the Fed.
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Nicholas GonzalezinChief Revenue Officer/Founder
Investors · 3
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountpre-seed funding roundSep 2025
Chingona Ventures (lead), Mucker Capital (lead)
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Competitors · 4
by search overlapSafe Security27 shared keywordsSAFE Security provides an AI-driven platform for cyber risk management, covering third-party risk management (TPRM), continuous threat exposure management (CTEM), AI security posture management (AI-SPM), and cyber risk quantification (CRQ). It uses an agentic workflow engine with native integrations to serve enterprise organizations, including a portion of the Fortune 500.
Silent Push22 shared keywordsSilent Push operates a proprietary scanning and aggregation engine that logs changes across the entire IPv4 and IPv6 space, providing security teams with pre-evaluated first-party data and query functionality to track and monitor attacker infrastructure. The company serves organizations' threat intelligence operations, aiming to surface the majority of live attacker infrastructure that most security data misses.
Cyble22 shared keywordsCyble provides threat intelligence and security solutions for organizations to protect against cyber threats across their attack surface. The company serves enterprises including Fortune 500 firms and government entities in the cybersecurity industry.
illusive networks22 shared keywordsProofpoint offers a suite of enterprise security and compliance products that protect people, email, cloud apps, and data from human-centric cyber threats using machine learning and AI. Its tools also cover data loss prevention, communications archiving, e-discovery, compliance supervision, identity threat detection, and security awareness training.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does SafeHill do?
- SafeHill is a cybersecurity company that combines AI and human ethical hackers to help security teams identify and prioritize real security exposures and attack paths. The platform targets security teams and CISOs seeking threat exposure management and penetration testing validation without alert fatigue.
- Who founded SafeHill?
- SafeHill was founded by Mike Pena, Hector Monsegur, Nicholas Gonzalez.
- Who are SafeHill's investors?
- SafeHill's investors include Techstars, Chingona Ventures, Mucker Capital.
- Where is SafeHill headquartered?
- SafeHill is headquartered in Fircrest, US.