Picus
picussecurity.com
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Vulnerability Management
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$69M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$45M
Venture round · Sep 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
13
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Endeavor, Turkven
The money's age
Long since its last round
25 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
37/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 11, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $45M · SEC Form D
Oct 6, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $24M · SEC Form D
2013
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.02%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
3
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Sep 2024 | $45M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Oct 2021 | $24M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Picus Security, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Hamdi MemisExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Volkan ErtrkExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Volkan ErturkDirector, Executive OfficerSEC Form D
Hamdi Alper MemisDirector, Executive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Endeavor 
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Overview
Picus is a cybersecurity company that develops a breach and attack simulation and exposure validation platform. Its software runs simulated attacks against an organisation's security controls to show which threats are blocked and which exposures are exploitable, and recommends mitigations for security operations teams. The company was founded in Ankara, Turkey, in 2013. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
News
Picus Security Announces The Validation Summit '26 Featuring Keynote Speaker Mikko Hyppönen
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Picus Security, a leading exposure validation company, today announced The Validation Summit '...
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Picus Security Announces The Validation Summit '26 Featuring Keynote Speaker Mikko Hyppönen
Virtual event will bring together cybersecurity leaders from a big fashion brand, the NFL and Atlassian to explore how enterprises must adapt security validation for AI-driven attacks
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Machine-Speed Attacks: Lessons From the Hugging Face Intrusion
An AI agent hacked Hugging Face on its own. Learn how machine-speed attacks work and why scheduled defense no longer holds.
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HOLLOWGRAPH Backdoor Turns Microsoft 365 Calendars Into a C2 Channel
Learn how HOLLOWGRAPH malware works: Microsoft 365 calendar dead drop C2, encrypted exfiltration, and IPv6 DNS credential refresh.
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Picus Security Ranked No. 1 in G2's Winter Breach and Attack Simulation Grid Report
Picus Security Ranked No. 1 in G2's Winter Breach and Attack Simulation Grid Report
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Picus Security uses AI to turn threat intelligence into attack simulations
The Picus Security Validation Platform uses advanced AI to transform how security teams simulate, validate and defend against threats.
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Picus Security announces Exposure Validation capability and Exposure Score metric
The new capability continuously tests security controls against real-world attack techniques, identifying which vulnerabilities are truly exploitable and which can safely be deprioritiz...
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GNW-News: Picus Security gibt Anerkennung im Gartner Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validat
SAN FRANCISCO, April 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Picus Security (https://www.picussecurity.com/), das führende Unternehmen für Sicherheitsvalidierung, gab heute bekannt, dass es im Leitfaden von Gartner() für die Expositionsvalidierung (https://www.picus
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Picus Security Receives $45M to Enhance Exposure Management
Picus Security has received $45 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital. The investment will accelerate product development in exposure management, including
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Picus Security Is Named a Customers
/PRNewswire/ -- Picus Security, the Security Validation company, today announced it has been recognized by Gartner Peer Insights as a Customers
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Picus over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
7
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
76/100
Languages
Python
Cloud & platforms
SIEM
GitHub
Wiz
Practices & domains
AI Agents
CI/CD
IAM
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People
Hamdi Memis
Executive Officer, Director
Volkan Ertrk
Executive Officer, Director
Volkan Erturk
Director, Executive Officer
Hamdi Alper Memis
Director, Executive Officer
Seymur Tari
Director
Cem Sertoglu
Director
Joe De Pinho
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
79/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
13
4 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
50 days
faster than 27% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
37% ▲
Marketing
32% ▼
AI/ML
11% ▼
Finance
11% ▲
Customer Success
5% ▲
Solutions
5% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Washington
Oct 2026
New location: Chicago
Oct 2026
New location: San Francisco
Oct 2026
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added Wiz to stack
Oct 2026
Added IAM to stack
Oct 2026
Added SBOM to stack
Sep 2026
Added CI/CD to stack
Sep 2026
Added SOC 2 to stack
Sep 2026
Added NIST CSF to stack
Sep 2026
Added ITIL to stack
Sep 2026
Added ISO 27001 to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Sales
Ankara
Turkey
Sales office
2 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 50% remote 200-500 est. staff
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