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The founder, not the deal.
The deck lies. The founder's story doesn't. Pedro — your fund already has the deck. We're asking you to evaluate the human behind it.
Ethiack
André Baptista
Co-founder & CEO
60-second bioRecorded · Apr 2026
Ph.D. in offensive security, ex-team lead at world-top CTF squad. Built breaker-side tools at scale before turning the lens on enterprise pen-testing's broken cadence.
Why this
Annual pen-tests miss 90% of what production drift exposes. Continuous beats periodic — the same way SRE replaced quarterly ops reviews.
Why now
AI agents widen the attack surface 10x faster than human auditors can keep up. The market has 18 months before continuous-AppSec becomes table-stakes.
Why them
We are the breakers. Every founder competitor in this space is a defender pretending to think like an attacker. We don't pretend.
The midnight question
"What would you build if no one funded you?"
I would still be writing exploits at 2am. The company is the way to scale that compulsion to 10,000 customers, not the source of it.
Vani Kola's signal. The founders who are compelled to build don't burn out at month 14. The ones who are running from something do.
Prior scars
- ◆Two years at a defender vendor — watched audit theatre miss real CVEs in real time. Founded Ethiack the week he quit.
- ◆Lost a major client in year-1 by refusing to fake a clean report. Kept the reputation, lost the ARR.
Resilience markers. We log scars not to kill the deal but to know which fault lines re-open under pressure.
↓ Deck collapsed below as a footnote — not the headline.
Deck (collapsed)
Continuous ethical hacking. Replaces episodic pen-tests with always-on machine + human red team. · Seed · €3.0M