Huzaifa Ahmad is Co-Founder at Hex Security, a Y Combinator W26 company building AI agents that automate penetration testing at scale.

Huzaifa studied at UC Berkeley and previously worked at Amazon, Capital One, and Lilac Labs as a Member of Technical Staff. He won first place and $10,000 at a School of AI health hackathon for creating a skin cancer detection app.

Huzaifa co-founded Talently before launching Hex Security and has experience building AI-powered applications across multiple domains.

Hex Security's AI agents have found critical vulnerabilities in dozens of YC companies, preventing an estimated $3B+ in potential damages based on exposed record counts and IBM benchmarks.

The company provides continuous penetration testing that works 24/7 to identify and verify critical vulnerabilities, addressing a market where companies lose $10T+ annually to preventable security issues.