Terra Security

Application SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurity Operations also known as Terra Security Inc.

Market readinessHow well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence. Emerging: Market readiness of 24 or below. Below the typical band, where few analyzed companies sit.
DefensibilityHow well the company holds its position if competitors catch up on features, scored across seven dimensions against public evidence. Contested: Defensibility of 13 to 14, the typical band, where a moat exists but is under pressure.
Founded 2024
Funding $38M
Last updated 2026-07-10

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Executive Summary

Terra Security sells continuous penetration testing in which a swarm of AI agents attacks a customer’s web applications, networks, and AI systems. Credentialed humans approve risky steps and sign the findings, and that signature matters more than the automation. The deliverable is an audit-ready report that auditors accept, which puts Terra in the manual-pentest budget rather than beside scanners. Terra holds an AWS security competency its announcement presents as the inaugural approval for autonomous security validation, sells through the AWS marketplace, and hired an ex-AWS executive to lead partner strategy. Press in September 2025 cited Fortune 100 clients, and the named endorsements, Riskified’s CISO among them, sit on Terra’s pages, so customer evidence trails partner evidence.

Sourced Details

Description Terra Security runs an agentic offensive security platform that uses a swarm of fine-tuned AI agents, with human oversight, to continuously pentest web applications, external networks, infrastructure, and AI systems. [f1]
Founded 2024 [f2]
HQ New York, United States, and Tel Aviv, Israel [f3]
Funding $38M total [f2]
Latest funding Series A ($30M, September 2025, led by Felicis) [f2]

Products

Product What it does
Terra Platform Agentic pentesting platform whose AI agents continuously test web apps, external networks, infrastructure, and AI systems, validating findings through real exploitation rather than scoring.
Terra Offensive Research Collaboration Hub (TORCH) Collaboration hub that lets security teams work directly with Terra's agents and apply human-on-the-loop control at each step of a pentest run.

Matrix Coverage

Cyber Defense Matrix

IdentifyProtectDetectRespondRecover
Devices Workstations, servers, phones, tablets, storage, network devices, IoT infrastructure, and similar hardware.
Applications Software, interactions, and application flows on the devices.
Networks Connections and traffic flowing among devices and apps, plus communication paths.
Data Content at rest, in transit, or in use across devices, apps, and networks.
Users The people using the devices, apps, networks, and data.

Terra Platform uses AI agents to continuously pentest customers' web applications, external networks, and infrastructure, surfacing exploitable weaknesses, and is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f4]

Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

Emerging 22 /40 Emerging: Market readiness of 24 or below. Below the typical band, where few analyzed companies sit.
Dimension Score
Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. 3/5
Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs, demos, and third-party validation. 3/5
Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. 3/5
Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. 2/5
GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. 3/5
Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. 2/5
Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. 3/5
Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. 3/5

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Business Risks
Problem & Market
Product Capabilities
Competitive Positioning
Go-to-Market & Traction
Team & Credibility
Trust Readiness
Competitors

Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how defensible it is against market forces and examining the eight areas behind it.

Defensibility

Contested 13 /21 Contested: Defensibility of 13 to 14, the typical band, where a moat exists but is under pressure. reinforce or reposition

Dimension Score
Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. 2/3
Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. 2/3
Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. 1/3
Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. 3/3
Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. 2/3
Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. 2/3
Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. 1/3

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Pricing Model
Product Delivery & Operations
Earning Customers' Trust
Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning
Team & Execution Capability

Sources

Company Detail Sources (4)
Id Source Tier Accessed
f1 https://www.terra.security official 2026-07-10
f2 https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/awdq1yv5k press 2026-06-24
f3 https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/terra-security-raises-8m-in-seed-round-for-its-agentic-ai-pen-testing-solution-302434301.html press 2026-06-24
f4 https://www.terra.security official 2026-06-24
Profile Analysis Sources (17)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 Terra Security: Agentic Offensive Security Platform
“Terra Platform unifies continuous agentic pentesting across AI systems, external networks, and web apps, with a Human-on-the-Loop to ensure production safety and compliance.”
official 2026-07-10
s2 Terra Security Blog: Insights
“Terra Platform is the first agentic Offensive Security platform to cover network, web, and internal app pentesting, as well as AI red teaming.”
official 2026-07-10
s3 Terra Security Raises $30M Series A From Felicis
“Terra combines a swarm of fine-tuned AI agents, each designed to think and act like ethical hackers, with expert human oversight to continuously test an organization's full attack surface.”
official 2026-07-10
s4 Ctech: AI startup Terra Security raises $30M Series A for continuous penetration testing
“Terra Security, a provider of AI-driven penetration testing platforms, has raised $30 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Felicis, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital, SVCI, and existing investors SYN Ventures, Lama Partners (FXP), and Underscore VC.”
press 2026-07-10
s5 PR Newswire: Terra Security raises $8M in Seed round for its agentic AI pen testing solution
“raises $8M in a seed round led by SYN Ventures and FXP Ventures with participation from Underscore VC and notable angel investors including former Google CISO Gerhard Eschelback and Ofer Ben-Noon and Ohad Bobrov, founders of Talon Security”
press 2026-07-10
s6 SecurityWeek: Terra Security Raises $30 Million for AI Penetration Testing Platform
“According to Terra, the solution uses a swarm of AI agents that continuously run thousands of advanced tests tailored to each organization's unique profile.”
press 2026-07-10
s7 Ctech: Terra founders and headcount
“Founded in 2024 by CEO Shahar Peled and CTO Gal Malachi, Terra employs 25 people in Israel and the United States and already serves Fortune 100 clients.”
press 2026-07-10
s8 Terra Security homepage: Terra Offensive Research Collaboration Hub
“The Terra Offensive Research Collaboration Hub lets you work directly with Terra agents, and control every step of the process.”
official 2026-07-10
s9 ProjectDiscovery: Neo autonomous AI pentesting platform (competitor page)
“Introducing Neo by ProjectDiscovery, a platform of autonomous AI agents that pentest every app, review every PR, manage your vulnerability backlog, and retest every fix.”
official 2026-07-10
s10 Dreadnode: AI Infrastructure for Security Agents (competitor page)
“AI red teaming, penetration testing, and vulnerability research at machine speed and scale.”
official 2026-07-10
s11 Mindgard: Automated AI Red Teaming and Security Testing (competitor page)
“The Mindgard AI security platform discovers exploits, assesses risk, and defends AI systems and agents.”
official 2026-07-10
s12 Rapid7: The Command Platform, Exposure Command (competitor page)
“Attack surface visibility with proactive exposure mitigation and remediation prioritization across your hybrid environment.”
official 2026-07-10
s13 Tenable: Vulnerability and exposure management (competitor page)
“Exposure management for the AI era”
official 2026-07-10
s14 Ctech: Terra platform powered by dozens of AI agents
“Terra has developed a platform for continuous penetration testing powered by dozens of AI agents.”
press 2026-07-10
s15 PR Newswire: Terra seed announcement, Fortune 500 clients
“Already serving multiple clients, including Fortune 500 companies, Terra will use the funds to advance its platform”
press 2026-07-10
s16 Terra Security Series A post: accelerator win
“Won the 2025 CrowdStrike & AWS Cybersecurity Accelerator in collaboration with Nvidia”
official 2026-07-10
s17 Terra Security Blog: TORCH announcement
“Terra Offensive Research Collaboration Hub (TORCH) is the first software built to enable human and agent collaboration in pentesting.”
official 2026-07-10
Deep-Dive Sources (14)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 Terra Security: Agentic Offensive Security Platform
“Audit-ready reports, signed by certified pentesters, accepted by the highest compliance standards.”
official 2026-07-07
s2 Terra Security: About, Our Story
“Empower enterprises with continuous Offensive Security at scale, combining AI with human judgment and the business context needed to reduce exposure dwell time.”
official 2026-07-07
s3 Terra Security: Terra Security Raises $30M Series A From Felicis
“has raised a $30M Series A round, led by Felicis with participation from Dell Technologies Capital, SVCI, and existing investors SYN Ventures, LAMA Partners (FKA FXP), and Underscore VC. This brings Terra’s total funding to date to $38M.”
official 2026-07-07
s4 Ctech: AI startup Terra Security raises $30M Series A for continuous penetration testing
“Founded in 2024 by CEO Shahar Peled and CTO Gal Malachi, Terra employs 25 people in Israel and the United States and already serves Fortune 100 clients.”
press 2026-07-07
s5 SecurityWeek: Terra Security Raises $30 Million for AI Penetration Testing Platform
“According to Terra, the solution uses a swarm of AI agents that continuously run thousands of advanced tests tailored to each organization’s unique profile.”
press 2026-07-07
s6 PR Newswire: Terra Security raises $8M in Seed round for its agentic AI pen testing solution
“including former Google CISO Gerhard Eschelback and Ofer Ben-Noon and Ohad Bobrov, founders of Talon Security, Travis McPeak and Itamar Friedman. Already serving multiple clients, including Fortune 500 companies”
press 2026-07-07
s7 Terra Security: Terra Security Becomes First AWS Partner to Achieve Security Competency for Autonomous Security Validation, March 2026
“it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency status in the Application Security category, including Static Code Analysis and Autonomous Security Validation. Terra is the first AWS partner approved for the newly launched Autonomous Security Validation use case.”
official 2026-07-07
s8 Terra Security: Terra Security Appoints Anna Sarnek as Vice President of Business & Strategy to Accelerate Ecosystem-Led Growth, March 2026
“the appointment of Anna Sarnek as Vice President of Business & Strategy. Sarnek has served as a strategic advisor to Terra over the past year, helping shape the company’s strategic direction, growth trajectory, and ongoing partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).”
official 2026-07-07
s9 Terra Security: Terra Security Finds Widespread Exploitable Flaws in AI-Driven Applications, Copilots, and AI-Generated Code, February 2026
“The research has identified that in 100% of applications that embed AI chats or copilots, AI-related security vulnerabilities were discovered.”
official 2026-07-07
s10 Terra Security: Terra Security Redefines Penetration Testing for the AI Era with Terra Portal
“Winner of the 2025 CrowdStrike/AWS/NVIDIA Cybersecurity Accelerator, and backed by SYN Ventures, Felicis, Lama Partners, SVCI, Underscore VC, Dell Technologies Capital, and Capital One Ventures.”
official 2026-07-07
s11 Terra Security: When AI Becomes the Attack Surface: CVE-2026-25724
“CVE-2026-25724 was discovered in Anthropic’s Claude Code by Terra Security Researchers.”
official 2026-07-07
s12 Terra Security: The Human Behind the Machine: What Human-in-the-Loop Really Means at Terra Security
“Yossi Yeshua, Riskified’s CISO, highlighted how the combination of agentic AI and human oversight delivers the depth and scale a modern security organization needs while increasing accuracy and vulnerability validation.”
official 2026-07-07
s13 Terra Security: Network Pentesting Launch for Web Apps, AI Systems, and Infrastructure, May 2026
“today announced the public preview of continuous exploitation validation for network infrastructure, available immediately to all customers within the Terra Platform”
official 2026-07-07
s14 Probe 2026-07-07 via curl: homepage badge alts ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, HIPAA. No trust portal at trust./security. subdomains, /trust, /security, /pricing other 2026-07-07

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