Rome-based Cyber Guru, a cybersecurity consciousness coaching platform, introduced on Thursday that it has secured $25M (roughly €23M) in a Sequence B funding spherical led by Riverside Acceleration Capital.
Others, together with Educapital and current buyers Adara Ventures and P101 Ventures, additionally participated within the spherical.
The corporate will utilise the funds to reinforce its aggressive AI-driven contextual coaching technique, enhance gross sales and advertising and marketing assets, and develop its Go-To-Market operations throughout Europe to help continued buyer development.
“Securing this funding from Riverside and Educapital, together with the continued help from Adara and P101, is a monumental step in our journey to scale internationally. Our mission is to enhance an organisation’s resistance to cyberattacks, by remodeling person behaviour. With our proprietary Machine Studying mannequin and the usage of superior studying methodologies, we’ve constructed a complete safety consciousness coaching platform that’s efficient in managing and lowering human danger, and now we’re poised to take this imaginative and prescient worldwide,” says Gianni Baroni, CEO and founding father of Cyber Guru.
Cyber Guru: Cybersecurity consciousness coaching platform
Based by Gianni Baroni in 2017, Cyber Guru is a cybersecurity consciousness coaching platform, that allows organisations to extend their resistance to cyber-attacks by altering worker behaviour.
The platform trains staff to turn into the primary line of defence towards cyber threats whereas minimising the impression on organisational productiveness.
The Italian firm supplies a safety consciousness coaching platform that makes use of a proprietary AI-powered adaptive machine studying mannequin and behavioral science methodology.
As per the corporate’s claims, over 700 clients, together with organisations of all sizes and verticals, in the private and non-private sector, depend on its platform to rework worker consciousness of, and resilience to, refined assaults – in the end making a human barrier towards cyber-crime.
Greater than 1 million lively customers in over 90 international locations are repeatedly skilled utilizing automated paths on the platform.
The investor
Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) supplies versatile development capital and working assets to assist acceleration-stage software program corporations maximise their potential.
Since its founding in 2016, the corporate, which is a part of The Riverside Firm, has supported over 75 B2B software program corporations.
“We see super worth in Cyber Guru’s modern strategy to cybersecurity consciousness, notably their capability to ship robust engagement charges by way of AI-driven automation and adaptive studying. We imagine the corporate’s concentrate on behavioural science and its unique Machine Studying mannequin units it aside available in the market. Our funding displays our confidence of their capability to turn into a European chief in safety consciousness coaching whereas serving to organisations obtain compliance and strengthen their human safety posture. We’re excited to proceed to help Cyber Guru as they scale their operations and speed up Analysis & Improvement efforts,” says Christian Stein, Accomplice at Riverside Acceleration Capital.
Educapital is the European enterprise fund devoted to Edtech and the Way forward for Work. With greater than €200M underneath administration, Educapital invests from Seed to Sequence B and has partnered with over 35 corporations.
“Talking to shoppers, we had been impressed by Cyber Guru’s effectiveness in mitigating human danger and the way properly it adapts to customers’ coaching wants. We’re proud to help Gianni and his crew of their worldwide growth,” says Jonathan Denais, Funding Director at Educapital.
