XBOW has raised an additional $35 million in Series C financing, strengthening investor confidence in its autonomous offensive security platform as enterprises confront faster and more sophisticated cyber threats. The new funding comes from strategic backers including Accenture Ventures, DNX Ventures, Liberty Global Tech Ventures, NVentures, Samsung Ventures, and SentinelOne S Ventures. The investment extends the company’s previously announced $120 million Series C round and underscores growing demand for continuous, AI-enabled security testing.
Strategic Investors Signal Enterprise Demand
The latest financing reflects more than a traditional capital raise, as several participants are also customers or ecosystem partners of XBOW. The company said this alignment gives it closer access to large-scale security operations and helps guide product development around real-world defender needs. Founder and CEO Oege de Moor said the strongest partnerships emerge when customers are working alongside the company as investors and collaborators.
XBOW now serves more than 100 customers worldwide, including major organizations such as Moderna and Seznam. SentinelOne, one of the strategic investors, highlighted the importance of adopting an attacker’s perspective as part of modern cyber defense. Alex Krongold, Director of Corporate Development and Ventures at SentinelOne, said XBOW helps scale offensive testing by operating like an extension of an internal red team.
Continuous Offensive Security Gains Momentum
The company positions its platform around a central market shift: attackers are increasingly using AI to probe systems continuously and at scale. Traditional penetration testing, often conducted at fixed intervals and led by human teams, can struggle to match the pace of modern software releases and automated attacks. XBOW argues that security teams need testing capabilities that operate as frequently and aggressively as the threats they face.
XBOW’s platform uses artificial intelligence to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in applications in a manner similar to real attackers. Instead of producing theoretical alerts alone, the technology is designed to validate exploitable findings and reduce false positives for security teams. It can also assess findings from other tools, helping organizations prioritize real risks rather than spending time on low-confidence alerts.
Expansion Across Global Markets
The added capital is expected to support XBOW’s commercial expansion, international growth, and partner strategy. Asia Pacific is a particular focus, with DNX Ventures providing regional expertise and Samsung playing a role as a preferred reseller in South Korea. The company said these relationships will help broaden distribution and accelerate adoption in strategically important markets.
Samsung Ventures America said demand is rising as organizations seek more intelligent and continuous approaches to security testing. The investor also noted that, as a customer, Samsung has seen the platform identify real-world risks quickly and precisely. That customer-investor dynamic strengthens XBOW’s position in a competitive cybersecurity market where validation, speed, and operational fit are increasingly important.
Scaling Teams and Product Capabilities
XBOW has also expanded internally, recently surpassing 250 employees as it builds out its go-to-market, engineering, and operations teams. The company said the additional funding will help it meet rising enterprise demand and continue developing capabilities for security teams operating under pressure from AI-enabled adversaries. Its broader goal is to help defenders move from reactive vulnerability management toward continuous, proactive offensive testing.
The funding arrives as cybersecurity budgets are increasingly directed toward tools that can improve efficiency and reduce manual workload. Security teams often face large backlogs of vulnerability alerts, many of which require costly human review before remediation decisions can be made. By focusing on exploit validation and continuous assessment, XBOW aims to help organizations act faster on the vulnerabilities that present genuine risk.
XBOW’s expanded Series C round highlights investor and customer confidence in autonomous offensive security as a growing category within enterprise cyber defense. With support from technology, venture, telecom, and cybersecurity partners, the company is seeking to scale both its platform and its international reach. As AI changes the speed and scale of cyberattacks, XBOW is positioning continuous, machine-speed offensive testing as a core requirement for modern security teams.