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Trident launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

Autonomous offensive security agents. The best defense is offense

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Team size
4
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

tridentsecurity.io ↗

See their funding details ↗

Trident on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Trident is the standard for modern day security. its an agentic pentester that chains vulnerabilities together like a real attacker mapping verified attack paths across AWS, Azure, GCP, web apps, and APIs. Run AI attacks and get fixes. Get started today: tridentsecurity.io (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Trident is an AI-powered security platform for continuous web and API penetration testing and cloud attack-path analysis across AWS, Azure, and GCP." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Junaid Mahmood, Founder/CEO: Co-founder @Trident, CTF player & bounter hunter. Taught coding at 16 (source)
  • Dekai Li, Founder/CTO: Co-founder @Trident, CS @University of Waterloo. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2025: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
  2. 2015-12-22: "Show HN: Trident App – Now Supports GitHub Issues" posted to Hacker News by mdw, 6 points and 3 comments. (source)

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Where else to launch Trident

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Dev Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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