Equixly

Equixly builds an AI agent-driven platform that continuously penetration-tests APIs, aiming to replace or supplement periodic manual API pentests with autonomous agents that probe for business-logic flaws, broken authorization, and other OWASP API Top 10-style vulnerabilities on an ongoing basis rather than a point-in-time snapshot. Founded in 2022 in Florence, Italy, by brothers Mattia and Alessio Dalla Piazza, the company frames its approach as agentic AI acting like a hacker embedded across the software development lifecycle rather than a static scanning tool.

API security is one of the fastest-growing attack surfaces because APIs proliferate faster than security teams can manually test them, and continuous, AI-driven testing is a real response to that scaling problem rather than a marketing repackaging of an old category. Equixly raised a €10 million Series A in December 2025, led by 33N Ventures with participation from Alpha Intelligence Capital, JME Ventures, and others, bringing total funding to roughly $13.3 million, and the company reports customers across European banking, energy, insurance, and retail sectors, though specific named enterprise logos beyond general sector descriptions were not found in independent coverage.

As a young, recently-funded startup, Equixly’s specific claims about autonomous agent effectiveness versus traditional manual pentesting or established API security scanners (such as those from Salt Security, Noname, or Traceable) have not yet been validated by independent third-party benchmarks; the Series A funding and founder pedigree (ex-IBM, UniCredit, Accenture) are the strongest independently verifiable signals at this stage.