HexAI
Category: AI in Cybersecurity
Israeli startup, formerly Ventris, building an operating system for AI agents that do vulnerability and malware research. Hex-Rays, the maker of IDA Pro, agreed to acquire it in October 2026. HexAI was founded in 2025. The company is led by Elon Gliksberg. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Team size: 1-10. Latest round: Acquired.
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Team size
- 1-10
Value proposition
Security researchers can build, run, measure and validate AI-agent research workflows on source code and binaries. The workflows find known CVEs, zero-days, malware and backdoors. The company says users get better and more findings while spending far less on AI models.
Products and solutions
HexAI cyber research platform, an agent-orchestration OS for security research. It supports custom research workflows, prebuilt workflows tested against benchmarks, measurement and validation of findings, and meta-workflows that improve other workflows autonomously. It analyzes both source code and binaries.
Unique value
Measurable, verifiable AI-agent security research rather than generic autonomous agents. The platform works with any AI model, runs on open models and can be deployed in air-gapped environments.
Target customer
Government and commercial security research teams, including vulnerability research, malware analysis and product security labs, in Israel and internationally.
Industries served
Cybersecurity, government/defense, enterprise product security
Technology advantage
Workflow orchestration with benchmarking and a built-in validation layer. It uses AI tokens efficiently at scale and can run fully on-premises or air-gapped. After the acquisition, it gains Hex-Rays reverse-engineering expertise; tools based on that expertise are currently offered exclusively through HexAI.
How they differentiate
Free MCP connectors only let an agent call reverse-engineering tools. HexAI adds the layer above that: maintained research workflows, scoring against benchmarks, and validation of findings. It also supports air-gapped, open-model deployment for sensitive government work.
Main competitors
Vector 35 Binary Ninja (Sidekick AI assistant), NSA Ghidra with GhidraMCP, frontier-lab security agents such as Anthropic's vulnerability scanning efforts and AISLE (acquired by Cohere)
Key partnerships
Hex-Rays (acquirer, maker of IDA Pro)
Major milestones
2025-06: Founded as Ventris by Elon Gliksberg and Or Gany. Later rebranded as HexAI Technologies Ltd., Amit Schendel joined as CTO. 2026-10: Hex-Rays agreed to acquire it for a reported $30M to $35M, all six employees will join Hex-Rays, which plans to expand operations in Israel.
Growth metrics
Six employees at the time of the acquisition. Bootstrapped with no outside capital. Acquisition valued at a reported $30M to $35M.
Market positioning
A niche, bootstrapped AI security research tool that was acquired roughly a year after founding to become the AI research layer of Hex-Rays' IDA ecosystem.
Geographic focus
Israel and international, including government customers; now part of Belgium-based Hex-Rays.
About Elon Gliksberg
Israel Unit 8200, held several roles and led projects; first employee at a startup before founding Ventris/HexAI; published vulnerability research and earned bug bounties for critical flaws in services of multibillion-dollar companies. Founded the company at age 24 to 25.
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Official website: https://hexai.re