Escape

Offensive security for the teams that are 100x outnumbered

4.9Score#74 of 999 agents#3 of 12 in Pentester

Why it ranks #74

Escape, an AI pentester from YC W23, ranks #74 of 999 AI agents and #3 of 12 in Pentester, with a score of 4.9 of 10. Data as of 3 Oct 2026.

The score adds four parts, each 0 to 10, by weight. Every point comes from public evidence. How scoring works ·

Proof 3 × 30% 0.9
Scale 7 × 30% 2.1
Momentum 4 × 25% 1.0
Autonomy 6 × 15% 0.9
= 4.9

Proof
Do customers use it? 30% of the score
3
Claims named customers.
- +3
  Named customers
  “In only 6 months, we partnered with Snyk and Postman, got into the GraphQL foundation, and worked with companies like Neo4j and ArangoDB.”
  Launch YC post · 21 Feb 2023
Not found: revenue or growth (+4), a customer result (+2), a customer count (+2), work done at scale (+2)
Scale
Is there a real company behind it? 30% of the score
7
29 people, raised $18M.
- +5
  29 people on its YC page20 to 49 people
- +2
  Raised $18M (Series A)Escape raises $18M Series A to replace legacy scanners with AI agent-driven discovery, pentesting, and remediationSource · 9 Mar 2026
Momentum
Is it shipping and growing now? 25% of the score
4
Shows hiring and funding news.
- +2
  Hiring: 1 open roleHead of Sales YC page
- +2
  Funding news in the last yearEscape raises $18M Series A to replace legacy scanners with AI agent-driven discovery, pentesting, and remediationSource · 9 Mar 2026
Not found: launch YC post in the last 6 months (+3), new traction claim in the last 6 months (+2), a batch in the last year (it is YC Winter 2023) (+1)
Autonomy
How much of the job does it do on its own? 15% of the score
6
Supervised agent: takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.
- +6
  Level 2 of 4: Supervised agentTakes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.
What the model read
- Acts in other systems: 75% likely
- Finishes whole tasks: 47% likely
- Calls itself an agent: 95% likely
Level 2: Takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.

About Escape

Replace legacy scanners and manual offensive security processes with AI agents that discover, test, and remediate directly in your engineering workflows.