Trickest
Offensive security automation platform that lets security teams build, automate and run reconnaissance and attack-surface workflows without heavy manual scripting.
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Trickest was founded in 2020 by Nenad Zaric and Mihailo Tomic in Belgrade, Serbia, with a mission to democratize offensive security automation. The platform provides a visual, workflow-based way to chain together open-source and custom security tools — many drawn from the broader offensive security tooling ecosystem — for reconnaissance, attack surface mapping and vulnerability discovery, removing much of the manual scripting burden typically required to build repeatable offensive security pipelines.
The company raised a €1.4 million seed round led by Credo Ventures with participation from Earlybird Digital East Fund, and counts backers including angel investors from UiPath among its supporters, reflecting its roots in the Central and Eastern European tech ecosystem.
Innovation Matrix Assessment
Rapidly built a workflow-automation platform for offensive security tooling that has gained visible adoption within the security research community since 2020.
Automating reconnaissance and attack-surface workflows reduces manual scripting effort for red teams and security researchers, per platform documentation and community usage.
A single, relatively small seed round and small team size indicate early-stage traction rather than broad enterprise momentum.
Its visual, composable workflow model for offensive security tooling is a meaningfully different approach from fixed-engine scanning products.
No independent benchmark of workflow reliability or coverage was found; efficacy evidence is largely anecdotal from the security research community.
Automating offensive security workflows stays relevant as the volume of assets and required testing cadence continues to outpace manual red-team capacity.
Why CISOs Should Care
Trickest lets security and red teams automate repeatable reconnaissance and attack-surface-mapping workflows without requiring every analyst to be a skilled scripter, increasing the throughput of a lean offensive security function.
What Makes It Different
Its no-code/low-code, workflow-orchestration approach to offensive security tooling differentiates it from vendors that ship a fixed scanning engine, letting teams compose their own pipelines from open-source and custom tools.
The Matrix Verdict
47/100 — EMERGING / UNRANKED
A small but technically credible offensive-security-automation platform popular in the security research community; promising but still early-stage in commercial scale and funding.
Editorial Note: Claims vs. Verified Findings
Funding figures are drawn from Tech.eu and The Recursive coverage of the seed round; workflow-efficiency claims are vendor-stated and were not independently benchmarked.
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