AI meets hacker to harden your stack.
SafeHill (formerly Tacticly) blends automated asset discovery and risk scoring with human penetration testers to deliver continuous threat exposure management.
Its subscription model ships validated vulnerabilities instead of false positives. Early customers report faster remediation and fewer incidents.
The Chicago-based team emerged from stealth with a $2.6 million pre-seed round led by Mucker Capital and Chingona Ventures, alongside Techstars and other angel investors.
Founders Mike Pena, Nicholas Gonzalez, and Hector Monsegur, along with the former LulzSec hacker known as Sabu, argue that pairing AI with seasoned red-teamers transforms pen testing from a point-in-time checkbox into an everyday practice.
The new funding will expand engineering, build AI-assisted pen-testing tools, deepen partner integrations, and launch a customer advisory board.
With regulators pressing for continuous security and attack surfaces growing across cloud, SaaS, and devices, SafeHill wants a human-in-the-loop security scanner on every engineer's desk.
Continuous discovery plus human validation helps fintech teams ship faster approvals, fewer false alarms, and cleaner audit trails, the stuff that actually keeps money moving safely.
Could AI and ex-hackers save your company from the next breach?
Why we picked it as Fintech of the Day: financial apps can't afford "annual only" security anymore. Payment rules like PCI DSS 4.0 push event-based and more frequent testing; SOC 2 auditors expect ongoing monitoring; bank supervisors keep raising the bar on third-party and operational resilience.
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Photo: SafeHill, via EIN Presswire. (Left to right: Mike Pena, Nicholas Gonzalez, Hector Monsegur)
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