SafeHill Emerges from Stealth With $2.6 Million Pre-Seed Funding

"Monsegur is well known as the reformed blackhat hacker called Sabu, who originally helped develop, and was the de facto leader of, the hacker group LulzSec - before becoming an informant and helping the FBI dismantle it. LulzSec famously targeted major organizations including Sony, the FBI affiliate InfraGard, and various government websites. The FBI operation resulted in several arrests in both the US and UK."

""Cyber threats are evolving faster than ever, overwhelming security teams with alerts and noise," says CEO Mike Pena. "Our platform combines AI-driven continuous penetration testing with expert human validation to cut through the noise, focus on real risks, and deliver the impact of a dedicated team of ethical hackers at scale." This isn't just a human in the loop in AI assistance, it is humans as part of the loop."

SafeHill raised $2.6 million in a pre-seed round led by Mucker Capital and Chingona Ventures. The Chicago-based firm was founded by Mike Pena (CEO), Nicholas Gonzalez (chief revenue officer), Hector Monsegur (chief research officer), Ibrahim Karajic (VP of infrastructure), and Andy Sok (VP of product). Monsegur previously led the hacktivist group LulzSec and later worked with the FBI as an informant. SafeHill's product, SecureIQ, is a continuous threat exposure management platform that provides continuous asset discovery, automated threat exposure assessments, AI-assisted attack-path analysis, continuous EASM, compliance mapping to PCI-DSS, CMMC, NIST, and ISO27001, and human-validated continuous penetration testing as an AI-human hybrid service.

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