Top Cyber Security Startups in Europe

For many organizations, the most valuable asset is their data. Whether source code, product designs, customer records, financial results, or pricing models, every organization has information they don’t want to get in the hands of competitors, sold on darknet marketplaces, or exposed publicly. Keeping that data safe has been a challenge, until now. Cyberhaven gives organizations the tools to safeguard their data from theft or misuse. In the process, we’ve become the standard for Data Detection and Response (DDR), the category we helped create.

Founded in 2012, we are a remote-first company headquartered in San Francisco that solves development, operations, and security challenges in infrastructure so organizations can focus on business-critical tasks. Our tools manage both physical machines and virtual machines, Windows, and Linux, SaaS and IaaS, etc. And we're committed to supporting next-generation technologies, as well. We speak at conferences and write books related to application and infrastructure management. All our foundational technologies are open source and developed openly, and have been since 2010.

Secfix helps companies stay secure at every stage of growth. With our security monitoring platform, we help companies get secured and certified (e.g. for ISO27001) fast and easy. We have been through the top accelerator and incubator programs in Germany, featured by prominent journals like Handelsblatt, and recently closed first funding round. With our initial product, a b2b marketplace for ethical hacking, we were able to win innovative startups and large enterprises as customers. Now, we are expanding our vision to help companies get secured and certified with help of automation and security monitoring tools.

As a global leader in cyber security, our people are the single greatest asset we have at BeyondTrust. Every day, there are new problems to solve, challenges to overcome and opportunities to make a difference in the security of our customers. As an industry leader, we are committed to going beyond for the talented, exceptional people that comprise the global BeyondTrust team.

Securing the software development process, with a focus on improving developer velocity.

At Maze, we're building a new type of cybersecurity platform, built from the ground up to use LLMs and AI Agents to make decisions, instead of pre-defined logic.

Sensity is the verification-everything platform. We are building a new foundational security layer for the Internet: an all-inclusive solution for detecting fake identities, documents, images, video and audio, had they been AI-generated or digitally altered with software. Sensity secures enterprises clients on 4 continents in the financial industry, marketplaces, insurance companies, and cybersecurity and threat intelligence firms; we support the work of dozens of government agencies. Founded in 2018 by AI researchers, Sensity is the world’s first company specialized in the detection of AI-generated content. We are backed by Betaworks (HuggingFace, Giphy), Amadeus Capital (Graphcore, Improbable), other than by the European Commission's Horizon-KTE, Visa Everywhere and Google News Initiative. Sensity is featured in the New York Times, the Financial Times, Bloomberg

Using massive data analysis of connected device firmware and software, Finite State provides transparency to device manufacturers and asset owners, enabling them to understand and mitigate their risks before they are compromised. The Finite State Platform automatically analyzes each device, allowing users to identify risk across a comprehensive matrix of factors. Simply upload your device firmware to our platform and within minutes you will gain access to an overall risk score, a robust Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), a list of existing threats and vulnerabilities, and a wide array of other factors that affect the security of your device.

DataDome stops cyberfraud and bots in real time, outpacing AI-driven fraud from simple to sophisticated across your sites, apps, and APIs. Named a Leader in the 2024 Forrester Wave for Bot Management, the DataDome platform is built on a multi-layered AI engine that focuses on intent, not just identity. Because it’s not about knowing who’s real, it’s about what they intend to do. With thousands of AI models that adapt to every fraudulent click, signup, and login, DataDome blocks fraud in less than 2 milliseconds, without compromising performance. DataDome is fully automated and integrates seamlessly into any tech stack. Backed by a 24/7 SOC team of advanced threat researchers, DataDome stops over 400 billion attacks annually. Experience protection that outperforms with DataDome.