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Accenture Ventures, DNX Ventures, Liberty Global, NVentures, Samsung, and SentinelOne Back Rising Demand for Continuous Offensive Security SEATTLE-BUSINESS WIRE- XBOW, the leader in autonomous offensive security, today announced $35 million in additional Series C financing from investors Accenture Ventures, DNX Ventures, Liberty Global Tech Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA's venture capital arm), Samsung Ventures, and SentinelOne S Ventures. The raise extends its previously announced $120 million Series C round, and highlights a broader shift: major enterprises are not just adopting XBOW's platform, but investing in it as they look to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven attacks. "We're learning in real time from teams operating at massive scale, and using that insight to build faster for defenders on the front lines," said Oege de Moor, Founder and CEO, XBOW. "The strongest alignment is when your customers are also in the trenches with you as investors and partners." XBOW now serves more than 100 customers worldwide, including several strategic investors in this round, alongside industry leaders like Moderna and Seznam. "The attacker's point of view is foundational to defense, but difficult to operationalize. XBOW changes this by surfacing exploitable and novel findings at machine speed," said Alex Krongold, Director, Corporate Development & Ventures, SentinelOne. "Each XBOW agent operates like an extension of our in-house red team, allowing us to scale offensive testing with speed and depth that was previously out of reach." Continuous Offensive Security at Machine Speed Until now, attackers were constrained by talent. Even the most sophisticated adversaries could not target every system, every version, all the time. With AI, attackers now operate continuously and at scale, probing every release, every environment, and every exposed surface. Traditional human-led penetration testing cannot keep pace with AI-driven attackers and modern development cycles. XBOW uses AI to find and exploit vulnerabilities in applications the way attackers do, running continuously instead of as a point-in-time pentest. It produces validated findings with a low false-positive rate, and can also confirm the exploitability of findings surfaced by other tools so security teams aren't chasing noise. As software ships faster, continuous offensive testing is becoming a core part of the security stack. XBOW lets customers test more often, cut validation backlogs, and proactively stay ahead of attackers rather than reacting to them. Fueling Global Expansion This latest financing further accelerates XBOW's go-to-market expansion and international growth strategy. With the deep expertise and regional network of DNX Ventures across Asia Pacific, combined with Samsung's role as a preferred reseller in South Korea, XBOW is expanding its distribution channels and partner ecosystem to accelerate adoption in this key global market. "We're seeing accelerating demand for XBOW as organizations look for continuous, intelligent security testing," said a Samsung Ventures America representative. "As a customer, we've experienced the platform's ability to surface real-world risks with speed and precision. XBOW stands out in a crowded market, and we're excited to now back this talented team as both a partner and investor." The company recently surpassed 250 employees and continues to scale its go-to-market, engineering, and operations teams to meet accelerating enterprise demand. As XBOW enters its next phase of growth, it remains focused on expanding its global footprint and enabling security teams to operate at attacker speed, continuously, safely, and at scale. About XBOW XBOW is the autonomous offensive security company redefining cyber defense for the AI era. Combining AI reasoning with offensive security workflows, the XBOW platform delivers expert-level security testing at machine speed. XBOW empowers security teams to transform from reactive to proactive defense at AI scale. For XBOW customers, autonomous offense is the best defense. Contact details: * images - screenshot_2026-05-05_at_4.50.43%e2%80%afpm.jpg download. ConnectWeb. ConnectWeb is Australia's leading publisher of biographical data, directories and specialist newsletters. With ConnectWeb you gain access to its comprehensive database of contacts and companies in media, government and associations. Connect with Connectweb.

XBOW raises additional $35M as strategic investors back autonomous offensive security platform. May 6, 2026 XBOW, an autonomous offensive security company focused on AI-driven penetration testing, has raised an additional $35 million in Series C funding from a group of strategic investors, extending its previously announced $120 million Series C round and underscoring growing enterprise demand for continuous security validation tools. The new capital comes from Accenture Ventures, DNX Ventures, Liberty Global Tech Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA's venture arm), Samsung Ventures, and SentinelOne S Ventures, with participation that includes both financial backing and active customer adoption. According to the company, several of the investors in this extension round are also customers of the XBOW platform, reflecting a trend in which enterprises are increasingly investing in cybersecurity tools they actively deploy within their own environments. XBOW develops an AI-native offensive security platform designed to continuously test applications for vulnerabilities by simulating attacker behavior at machine speed. The system runs ongoing penetration testing rather than relying on traditional point-in-time assessments, a model the company says is increasingly insufficient in modern software environments where applications are updated frequently and attack surfaces evolve continuously. "We're learning in real time from teams operating at massive scale, and using that insight to build faster for defenders on the front lines," said Oege de Moor, Founder and CEO of XBOW. "The strongest alignment is when your customers are also in the trenches with you as investors and partners." The company said its platform uses AI agents to identify and validate exploitable vulnerabilities across applications, helping security teams prioritize real threats and reduce the backlog of false positives that often result from conventional scanning and testing tools. XBOW currently serves more than 100 customers globally, including enterprise organizations such as Moderna and Seznam, alongside strategic investors participating in the latest round. Security professionals and investors alike have pointed to the increasing complexity of cyber threats as a driver of demand for automated offensive testing. As AI tools lower the barrier for attackers to probe systems at scale, enterprises are under pressure to adopt more continuous and proactive security approaches. Alex Krongold, Director of Corporate Development and Ventures at SentinelOne, said traditional penetration testing models are no longer sufficient to match the speed and scale of modern threats. "The attacker's point of view is foundational to defense, but difficult to operationalize," Krongold said. "XBOW changes this by surfacing exploitable and novel findings at machine speed. Each XBOW agent operates like an extension of our in-house red team." Unlike traditional security tools that often focus on static scanning or periodic audits, XBOW positions its platform as a continuous offensive testing layer that integrates into development and security workflows. The system is designed to validate whether vulnerabilities are actually exploitable, helping security teams prioritize remediation efforts more effectively. The company said its platform can also analyze findings generated by other security tools, verifying exploitability and reducing noise that typically slows down remediation processes. The new funding will support XBOW's international expansion and go-to-market efforts, particularly in Asia-Pacific markets where the company is leveraging partnerships with DNX Ventures and Samsung Ventures. Samsung is also acting as a reseller in South Korea, providing a distribution channel for enterprise adoption in the region. "We're seeing accelerating demand for XBOW as organizations look for continuous, intelligent security testing," said a representative from Samsung Ventures America. "XBOW stands out in a crowded market, and we're excited to now back this talented team as both a partner and investor." The company said it has grown to more than 250 employees as it scales engineering, sales, and operations functions to support enterprise demand. Its growth reflects broader trends in cybersecurity, where organizations are increasingly shifting toward automated, always-on security validation tools in response to faster development cycles and more sophisticated attack vectors. As enterprises move toward continuous deployment and AI-assisted software development, XBOW is positioning its autonomous offensive security platform as a foundational layer in modern cybersecurity stacks - designed to help organizations test systems at the same speed at which they are built and attacked.

Accenture invests in XBOW to advance continuous offensive security testing and exposure management. New partnership will scale continuous, AI-driven security testing and exposure management to counter rising AI-driven cyber threats Accenture has made a strategic investment in XBOW, a leading autonomous cybersecurity testing platform powered by agentic AI. NEW YORK-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has made a strategic investment in XBOW, a leading autonomous cybersecurity testing platform powered by agentic AI. This investment, made through Accenture Ventures, will also establish a partnership between Accenture and XBOW to help clients proactively identify and mitigate exploitable risks in increasingly complex, AI-driven technology environments. The shift to agentic AI is reshaping both how enterprises operate and how they are attacked. According to the World Economic Forum's Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026, produced in collaboration with Accenture, roughly two-thirds of organizations expect AI to have the most significant impact on cybersecurity in the year ahead, yet only 37% have processes in place to assess the security of AI tools before deployment. Enterprise applications and infrastructure remain among the least-tested layers of the stack, a gap that adversaries are now scaling AI to exploit. By combining the scale, speed, and pattern recognition of advanced AI with the creativity, judgement, and strategic thinking of human hackers, XBOW is well-suited to integrate with enterprise environments and find vulnerabilities before attackers can. To help do this, XBOW will be integrated into Accenture's Cyber.AI solution, which enables organizations to transform their security operations, moving from human-speed response to continuous, AI-driven cyber capabilities. "With advanced AI heightening the speed and severity of attacks on organizations, it's critical that enterprises be proactive with their defenses, including their penetration testing efforts," said Harpreet Sidhu, global cybersecurity lead at Accenture. "Accenture's investment in XBOW will help clients continuously test and validate their systems for security gaps and ensure they have the information and guidance needed to remediate these issues quickly." XBOW specializes in developing systems designed to emulate how real-world attackers identify and exploit weaknesses in software and infrastructure. Its proprietary platform autonomously maps application environments, probes for vulnerabilities, and attempts multi-step exploitation paths, producing evidence-based insights into enterprise security gaps that are exploitable by threat actors. This approach differs from traditional manual scanning methods by using agentic AI to focus not only on detection, but on recreating and testing the conditions under which vulnerabilities can be leveraged in realistic attack scenarios. "Partnering with Accenture will enable us to bring XBOW to a broader set of clients," said Oege de Moor, CEO of XBOW. "As new AI models make it easier to exploit gaps in enterprise defenses, organizations need to move faster. Together, we'll help make continuous offensive security a priority for security teams worldwide." The investment in XBOW aligns with Accenture's cybersecurity AI reinvention strategy and underscores the shift towards AI-augmented cybersecurity capabilities. By seamlessly integrating human expertise with AI agents, Accenture is reinventing enterprise protection and delivering a new class of managed cybersecurity services built for the AI era. The terms of the investment were not disclosed. About Accenture Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world's leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us at accenture.com. About XBOW XBOW is the autonomous offensive security company redefining cyber defense for the AI era. Combining AI reasoning with offensive security workflows, the XBOW platform delivers expert-level security testing at machine speed. XBOW empowers security teams to transform from reactive to proactive defense at AI scale. For XBOW customers, autonomous offense is the best defense. More News From Accenture ROME-( BUSINESS WIRE )-Accenture and the Women's Tennis Association have announced a new, multi-year partnership... NEW YORK-( BUSINESS WIRE )-Accenture has made an investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Netomi, a leading customer experience AI platform company... TOKYO-( BUSINESS WIRE )-NSK Limited and Accenture announced a strategic collaboration to drive the reinvention of NSK's business through AI and digital technology... Accenture. Release Summary Accenture has made a strategic investment in XBOW, a leading autonomous cybersecurity testing platform powered by agentic AI. 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