CONFIDENTIAL — PREPARED FOR VL — FEB 2026
SEED ROUND

BOUNTYWARZ

The cybersecurity game that feeds an enterprise SaaS.
Where players become professionals and AI finds zero-days.

$200B+
Cyber Market by 2028
3.5M
Unfilled Cyber Jobs
$2M
Seed Round
// The Problem

Cybersecurity is broken in three places

Talent Gap

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Unfilled cybersecurity positions globally. Traditional education is too slow, too expensive, and too boring to close the gap.

Testing Failure

82%

Of breaches involve a human element. Annual pen tests are snapshots. Attackers operate 24/7. Defenders test once a year.

Cost Crisis

$4.5M

Average cost of a data breach in 2025. Companies spend millions on security yet still get hacked because testing is periodic, not continuous.

// Two Products, One Engine

The Game + The SaaS

Product 1 🌏

BountyWarz: The Game

Free-to-play cybersecurity space game. Golden Age sci-fi aesthetic. 18 nations, CTF mechanics, alliance warfare.

  • Real cybersecurity education mapped to CompTIA / OSCP certs
  • AI crew cards (Marvel-style collectibles with DALL-E art)
  • Battle Pass, cosmetics, premium Academy subscription
  • Target: $5 ARPU scaling to 10K+ players
  • Top-of-funnel for the SaaS business
Product 2 🛡

BountyWarz: Enterprise SaaS

Autonomous AI purple team security testing. Docker containers running real products. Zero-day discovery as a service.

  • AI vs AI — attack bots find vulns, defense bots patch them
  • Real products: Apache, Nginx, WordPress, MySQL, etc.
  • Continuous 24/7 testing (not annual pen tests)
  • Target: Fortune 500 CISOs, MSSPs, government
  • This is where the real money is
// The Secret Weapon

The Pipeline

Why both products together are more powerful than either alone.

🎮
The Game
Free-to-play CTF attracts thousands of players
🎓
The Academy
AI mentor certifies them in real cybersecurity skills
💼
Graduates
Best players become qualified security testers
🤖
SaaS Platform
Humans + AI run continuous enterprise security testing
💡

The game is the acquisition engine

No other cybersecurity company has a free-to-play game feeding its enterprise pipeline. We acquire users at near-zero cost through gameplay, educate them through the Academy, and deploy the best alongside AI on the SaaS platform. The game makes the SaaS better. The SaaS funds the game. A self-reinforcing flywheel.

// SaaS Revenue Model

Enterprise Pricing

Autonomous purple team testing. Three tiers for every stage of maturity.

Starter
$999
per month
  • 3 Docker target containers
  • Weekly automated test cycles
  • AI attack + defense bots
  • Vulnerability reports
  • Email support
Enterprise
$19,999
per month
  • Unlimited containers
  • Continuous 24/7 testing
  • Custom AI training on your stack
  • Zero-day bounty sharing
  • FedRAMP / CMMC support
  • On-premise deployment option
  • Executive briefings

Annual contracts available at 20% discount — target 10 enterprise customers by month 12

// Market Opportunity

A $200B+ market
growing double digits

Cybersecurity (Total) $200B+
Cybersecurity Education $20B+
Security Testing $15B+
Gamified Learning Fastest Growing

Why Now

  • AI costs dropped 90% in 18 months — autonomous testing is finally viable
  • 3.5M unfilled cyber jobs — companies can't hire fast enough
  • SEC now requires breach disclosure — CISOs need continuous testing
  • Gen Z learns through games, not textbooks — gamified education is exploding
  • Zero-day market premiums rising — discovery-as-a-service is high-value
// The Team

AI-First Operations

We run a company the way companies will run in 2030 — today.

🤖
0
Elite AI Employees
🎧
0
Creative Audit Panel
🧠
6-7
Intelligence Score
💰
$0.25
Daily Operating Cost

8 AI Employees

Scored 6-7 on the Google/Stanford/Goldman intelligence framework. Each specializes in a domain: engineering, security research, creative direction, QA, DevOps, content, analytics, and operations.

The Athelgard AI brain coordinates all autonomous operations across the platform.

45-Voice Creative Audit

Every feature passes through a 45-voice panel modeled on visionary thinkers: Asimov, Disney, Jobs, and more. Disney polish for UX. Jobs go/no-go for shipping decisions.

This is how we ship at AAA quality on an indie budget.

// Why We Win

Competitive Advantages

01

Game Feeds SaaS

The only company where a free-to-play game is the acquisition funnel for enterprise security SaaS. Zero CAC for users who become customers.

02

AI-First Everything

AI employees, AI testing, AI content generation. Operating costs are $0.25/day. Our competitors spend $50K+/month on human pen testers. We deploy AI that never sleeps.

03

Real Education

Not gamified quizzes. Real CVEs, real Docker containers, real attack/defense scenarios. Mapped to CompTIA Security+, CEH, and OSCP certification tracks.

04

Quality at Scale

The 45-voice creative audit ensures every feature ships with Disney-level polish. AI lets us move at startup speed with enterprise quality.

Cost Comparison: Us vs. Traditional

Annual penetration test $30,000 - $150,000 $11,988 - $59,988/yr (continuous)
Security analyst salary $95,000 - $180,000/yr AI bots + trained graduates
Cybersecurity training (per employee) $3,000 - $8,000 Free via game / $29/mo Academy
// What We've Built

Traction & Momentum

🚀

Product Built

  • Full game live in browser + mobile
  • 18 nations, CTF, AI crew system
  • AI Academy with Athelgard mentor
  • Stripe payments integrated
🤖

AI Infrastructure

  • 9 Docker containers for purple team
  • Athelgard autonomous brain operational
  • 8 AI employees onboarded
  • 45-voice audit panel active
📈

Ready to Scale

  • Vercel + Supabase infra deployed
  • DeepSeek AI for scenario gen
  • DALL-E 3 for avatar creation
  • Product-market fit validated

All of this built at a total operating cost of $0.25/day

That is not a typo. AI-first means radically lower burn.

// The Ask

$2M Seed Round

18 months of runway to hit $1M ARR

Series A target: $10M+ valuation

$1M
ARR by Month 12
0
Enterprise SaaS Customers
0+
Game Players
18 mo
Runway
40%
Engineering & AI Infrastructure

Scale Docker fleet, expand AI capabilities, harden platform

35%
Sales & Go-to-Market

Enterprise sales team, CISO outreach, game marketing

25%
Operations & Compliance

SOC2, FedRAMP prep, legal, and runway buffer

The game builds the talent. The talent powers the SaaS.

The SaaS builds the future of cybersecurity.

BOUNTYWARZ.COM