Milan-based Bynario raises €2.1 million pre-Seed after AI research exposed serious Apple vulnerabilities
Bynario, a Milan-based cybersecurity company whose researchers used frontier AI models to uncover serious flaws in Apple’s operating systems, has closed a €2.1 million pre-Seed funding round.
The round was led by 360 Capital Partners, with participation from PranaVentures.
“Attackers are fundamentally incentive-driven. As AI continues to reduce the cost of vulnerability research and exploitation, more exploitable vulnerabilities become attractive targets. The challenge for defenders is only becoming more acute,” said Alfredo Pesoli, CEO and co-founder of Bynario.
Founded in 2025 by Pesoli, Giancarlo Russo and Lorenzo Cavallaro, Bynario builds an autonomous application security platform designed to help organisations identify, validate, prioritise and remediate software vulnerabilities at scale, spanning code, cloud infrastructure and the software supply chain.
Instead of flagging every possible issue, Bynario’s security platform confirms which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable in a customer’s environment, allowing security teams to prioritise their work. The company is already working with customers across software, cloud and enterprise environments, and says it is helping them cut remediation times while giving them clearer visibility into software risk.
Bynario shot to fame after its researchers used frontier AI models as part of an offensive security research programme, uncovering serious vulnerabilities in Apple’s macOS Screen Sharing technology in August. The findings were disclosed to Apple, which subsequently issued fixes for the affected vulnerabilities.
According to Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, software vulnerabilities are now the most common route into enterprise systems, accounting for 31% of incidents. As tools push developers to ship more code, the sheet volume makes it hard for security teams to separate real risk from noise.
Bynario’s Apple vulnerability findings immediately showcased how quickly AI tools can now accelerate the discovery and exploitation of previously unknown software flaws, intensifying pressure on defenders who still largely rely on manual investigation.
“Bynario’s approach of autonomous vulnerability discovery, validation, prioritisation, and remediation is what is needed in modern cybersecurity. We are proud to stand alongside them as they build this game-changing AI-based platform from the ground up,” said Cesare Maifredi, Partner at 360 Capital.
While its claim to fame is vulnerability discovery, Bynario wants to go beyond that. The Milan-headquartered startup wants to build a continuous exposure management layer that keeps pace with how fast modern software and the threats against it are evolving. With the cybersecurity skills shortage continuing to leave many organisations unable to keep pace with a growing volume of vulnerabilities, Bynario is betting that autonomous, AI-driven defence is the alternative to manual triage.
The fresh capital will go toward accelerating the development of Bynario’s AI-powered security platform, growing its engineering team, and scaling to meet enterprise demand.
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