FRANCE —French cybersecurity firm Fleuret AI has completed a €4 million pre-seed funding round to expand its agentic penetration testing technology across European enterprise markets. The investment round was led by RAISE Ventures, with participation from Auriga Cyber Ventures, Wind Capital, Better Angle, and individual angel investors from the security sector. The capital will be deployed to accelerate platform development, enhance artificial intelligence architecture, and expand technical teams spanning offensive security and software engineering.
Fleuret AI is a Paris-headquartered cybersecurity company that provides automated penetration testing software designed to conduct continuous security evaluations. Co-founded by Yanis Grigy and Augustin Ponsin, the company utilizes autonomous software agents to perform exposure assessments, vulnerability mapping, real-time exploit validation, and automated remediation verification for enterprise digital environments.
The investment reflects a structural shift within corporate security management, driven by stricter European regulatory standards such as the NIS2 directive. Organizations are increasingly compelled to demonstrate continuous operational resilience rather than relying on periodic security audits, which often leave systems exposed during interim code deployments or cloud infrastructure updates.
Demand for continuous security validation is expanding rapidly across highly regulated sectors, digital services, and financial technology infrastructure. By automating vulnerability discovery and verification, organizations can significantly reduce exposure windows and lower the operational costs associated with manual security assessments across complex multi-cloud assets.
Automated offensive security solutions present strategic growth potential as enterprise attack surfaces expand and AI-driven cyber threats become more sophisticated. For venture investors and enterprise technology leaders, scalable automated penetration testing platforms offer an efficient path toward maintaining sovereign data compliance while maintaining perpetual security posture across European software ecosystems.
