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Diego Spahn

Diego Spahn

Co-Founder, Chief Technology & Product Officer at SpartanX

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Updated Nov 7, 2026·Latest SEC filing Oct 22, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Diego Spahn

Diego Spahn is co-founder and chief technology and product officer of SpartanX in Boston. SpartanX sells an autonomous platform that attacks a company's systems and shows with evidence which attack paths work. He remains on the company's board. He was co-founder and chief executive officer when SpartanX announced its seed round on April 21, 2026. Erik Hardy became chief executive officer in October 2026.

Spahn has more than 20 years in cybersecurity and product, about ten in consulting and ten building companies. He co-founded Neuralys, a platform for managing automated vulnerability and penetration testing. He guided it from bootstrap to its 2021 acquisition by Coalfire. His byline is on SpartanX's blog post about its NodeX launch.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Diego Spahn in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

SpartanX Technologies, Inc. Current
Co-Founder, Chief Technology & Product Officer
Co-Founder and CEO (2026)
2026 – Present · Boston, MA
Software that acts as a continuous attacker, finds weaknesses across a company's systems, proves each with an exploit, and helps fix them.

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Diego Spahn works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

SpartanX Technologies, Inc. · Form D, Oct 22, 2026
Erik Hardy
Erik Hardy
Chief Executive Officer and director
Anton Simunovic
Anton Simunovic
Partner at Venture Guides and director

Sources

  1. SECSpartanX Technologies, Inc. Form D, filed Oct 22, 2026
  2. companySpartanX press release, April 21, 2026 (seed round)
  3. wirePR Newswire, October 16, 2026 (Erik Hardy appointed CEO)
  4. companySpartanX blog post on NodeX and Targeted Attack Validation