Terra Security
14 known investors
Terra provides red teaming and offensive security testing for deployed AI systems, including models, copilots, chatbots, and agentic applications. The platform helps enterprise organizations validate AI systems for exploitable risks before adversaries can exploit them.
Also known as Terra · Terra Security Inc.
Founders & leadership
Investors · 14
Also in the syndicate · 9
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$30M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2025
- $30MSeries ASep 2025 · 3 sources
Felicis (lead), Dell Technologies Capital, LAMA Partners, Lama Partners (FXP), SVCI, SYN Ventures, Underscore VC
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Terra Security develops an agentic offensive security platform that performs continuous penetration testing across AI systems, web applications, and external and internal network infrastructure. The product, marketed as Terra Platform, uses a swarm of fine-tuned AI agents designed to operate with ethical-hacker methodology; agents adapt their action plans in real time as an organization's environment and risk profile change and automatically launch targeted tests when new vulnerabilities appear. Findings are validated through real exploitation rather than hypothetical scoring, and are mapped to the customer's business context and code so that reported issues reflect concrete business impact.
A human-in-the-loop (described on the company site as "human-on-the-loop") mechanism governs critical decision points. Customers interact with the agents through the Terra Offensive Research Collaboration Hub (TORCH), and outputs include audit-ready reports signed by certified pentesters for compliance purposes. The company positions the platform as a consolidation of several point tools, citing test turnaround of 2-4 hours versus 4-6 weeks for traditional engagements and always-on analysis in place of point-in-time snapshots.
Terra was founded in 2024 by CEO Shahar Peled and CTO Gal Malachi, and operates from Tel Aviv and New York with teams in Israel and the United States. It raised $8 million in seed funding in April 2025 and a $30 million Series A in September 2025, for $38 million in total funding.
Founding story
The founders state that penetration testing had not evolved in decades, with organizations relying on manual, point-in-time tests that are expensive, slow, and outdated on delivery, while automated tools fail to mimic real attackers at scale; Terra was created to combine AI agents with expert human oversight to close that gap.
Business model
Enterprise software: Terra sells access to its Terra Platform continuous pentesting service to security organizations, and also addresses partners and service providers who integrate, resell, or build on the platform through a partner portal. Specific pricing terms are not disclosed in the sources.
Not disclosed in the available sources; the company markets a platform product to enterprise security teams and to partners/service providers.
Traction
Total funding of $38 million across a $8 million seed (April 2025) and $30 million Series A (September 2025). Roughly 25 employees in Israel and the United States as of September 2025, with an expanded customer and partner base including multiple Fortune 500 enterprises (Calcalist cites Fortune 100 clients). Won the 2025 CrowdStrike & AWS Cybersecurity Accelerator.
Latest developments
Following the September 2025 Series A, Terra announced continuous network infrastructure penetration testing within Terra Platform, extending its agentic coverage across network, web, internal apps, and AI red teaming, and introduced the TORCH collaboration hub. Stated plans include expanding into agentic-AI-driven red teaming and broader enterprise attack surface coverage, growing R&D and product teams, and scaling go-to-market.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Terra describes itself as the first agentic-AI-powered continuous penetration testing platform and the first agentic offensive security platform to cover network, web, and internal app pentesting as well as AI red teaming. Press coverage characterizes it as an Israeli cybersecurity startup in AI-driven penetration testing that already serves Fortune 500 / Fortune 100 customers.
Continuous rather than point-in-time testing; exploitation-validated findings instead of hypothetical severity scoring; business-context-aware agents trained on customer environments and code; human oversight at decision points to preserve production safety and compliance; and consolidation of multiple offensive security tools into a single platform spanning AI systems, web apps, and network infrastructure.
Technology
A swarm of dozens of fine-tuned AI agents that emulate ethical hackers, trained on customer business context and code, running continuously and re-planning as risks evolve, with automatic launching of targeted tests when new vulnerabilities emerge. Every finding is validated through actual exploitation. Human-in-the-loop controls at critical decision points are exposed through the TORCH collaboration hub, and results are packaged into audit-ready reports signed by certified pentesters.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales (the company has a VP of Global Sales and is scaling U.S. sales operations with Series A proceeds), supplemented by a partner and reseller program, demo requests on the website, and content marketing through threat research, case studies, whitepapers, and analyst reports.
Enterprise security organizations, including Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies. The site segments use cases by team: security and AppSec teams, CISOs, compliance and GRC functions, and partners and service providers.
Geography
Headquartered/operating out of Tel Aviv, Israel and New York, United States, with teams in both countries; R&D is centered in Israel and sales operations are being scaled in the U.S.
History
Founded in 2024 by Shahar Peled (CEO) and Gal Malachi (CTO). The company raised an $8 million seed round in April 2025, launched what it describes as the first agentic-AI continuous penetration testing platform, and won the 2025 CrowdStrike & AWS Cybersecurity Accelerator in collaboration with Nvidia. In September 2025 it announced a $30 million Series A led by Felicis, bringing total funding to $38 million, and added former Google CISO Gerhard Eschelbeck to its board. It subsequently extended the platform to continuous network infrastructure penetration testing alongside web app and AI red teaming coverage.
Risks & controversies
No controversies are reported in the available sources. Sources note the company is early-stage (founded 2024, ~25 employees) and competing against both traditional manual pentesting providers and automated tooling; the company itself highlights governance, production safety, and compliance as key constraints on continuous automated testing.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 7
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Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsTerra Security announced a $30 million Series A led by Felicis with participation from Dell Technologies Capital, SVCI, and existing investors SYN Ventures, LAMA Partners (FKA FXP) and Underscore VC, bringing total funding to $38 million. Proceeds are earmarked for expanding into agentic-AI red teaming and broader attack surface coverage, growing R&D in Israel, and scaling U.S. go-to-market.
$30M source ↗
Announced alongside the Series A round.
Terra raised $8 million in seed funding, with participation from private investors including former Google CISO Gerhard Eschelbeck, Talon Security founders Ofer Ben-Noon and Ohad Bobrov, Google VP of Research Yossi Matias, and Sysco CISO Charles Tango.
$8M source ↗
Terra won the 2025 CrowdStrike and AWS Cybersecurity Accelerator in collaboration with Nvidia; selection panel included Amazon CISO CJ Moses, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz and NVIDIA CSO David Reber.
TORCH is the interface through which customers work directly with Terra's agents and exercise human-on-the-loop control at each step of a test.
Terra Security added network pentesting to Terra Platform, extending continuous agentic coverage across web apps, AI systems, external and internal network infrastructure.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
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- Terra Securityterra.security · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Terra Security do?
- Israeli-American startup building an agentic-AI continuous penetration testing platform with human-in-the-loop oversight.
- Who founded Terra Security?
- Terra Security was founded by Gal Malachi, Shahar Peled.
- Who are Terra Security's investors?
- Terra Security's investors include Felicis Ventures, Syn Ventures Seed Management Llc, Underscore VC, Dell Technologies Capital, SYN Ventures.
- How much funding has Terra Security raised?
- Terra Security has disclosed $30M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.