With increasing regulatory pressure from NIS2 and GDPR enforcement, European cybersecurity startups are growing rapidly. Tallinn, London, and Tel Aviv-linked European teams lead in identity management, threat detection, and compliance automation. We track 197 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
197 entries.
ENISE (Encuentro Internacional de Seguridad de la Información) is Spain's benchmark cybersecurity event, organised by INCIBE, the Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute. The 20th edition gathers the international cybersecurity ecosystem — companies, startups, public sector and researchers — for keynotes, B2B meetings, an innovation track and live demos over three days at the León convention centre.
Founded in 2005, Adara Ventures is a Madrid-based deep tech VC managing over EUR 200M across four funds. The firm invests EUR 1-5M at Series A in cybersecurity, applied AI, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software across Europe. Its AV4 fund targets EUR 100M for next-generation digital infrastructure. Notable portfolio companies include Countercraft (acquired by Thales), Devo Technology, and Nearby Computing. Adara brings deep technical expertise and supports founders in navigating complex enterprise sales cycles.
Southeast Europe's leading security industry event at Zagreb Fair bringing together 3,000+ professionals and 150+ exhibitors across physical security, cybersecurity, IoT and smart technologies.
An execution-focused AI deployment and investment forum at Hualing Expo Plaza, covering AI strategy, healthcare AI, fintech, and cybersecurity, with a developer track, a 72-hour hackathon, and a startups and funding track. Strong fit for founders building AI-native products.
Aikido Security is a unified developer-first application security platform covering code scanning, cloud posture, runtime monitoring and AI-driven penetration testing — all from one console. Founded in 2022 in Ghent by serial entrepreneurs Willem Delbare, Roeland Delrue, Felix Garriau and Madeline Lawrence, it became Europe's fastest cybersecurity unicorn after closing a $60 M Series B led by DST Global and PSG Equity in 2025 at a $1 B+ valuation. Annual recurring revenue hit $20 M in 2025 with a target of $60 M. Aikido serves developers and security teams at mid-market and enterprise companies from offices in Ghent, San Francisco, London and Chicago.
Aktantis is a world-class European deeptech competitiveness cluster founded in 2005 and based in Sophia Antipolis, France, federating an innovation ecosystem focused on digital transition across microelectronics, IoT, cybersecurity, AI, and photonics. With over 300 member organizations, Aktantis supports companies through project financing, growth acceleration, international expansion, and cybersecurity protection, with member startups collectively raising over 500 million euros in funding and investing 1.5 billion euros in R&D. The cluster participates as a partner in SIDO Lyon as part of its European deeptech ecosystem development mission.
André Xuereb is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Merqury Cybersecurity, a Malta-based cybersecurity firm. As a founder and CEO in the cybersecurity space, he is an active and recognised figure in Malta's growing information security community. He is a confirmed speaker in the Cybersecurity track at TechTok 2026.
Dr. Artemis Kontou is a Senior Researcher and Entrepreneur at KIOS Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus, where she applies deep learning methodologies to healthcare diagnostics and monitoring challenges. She is the founder of Tseepor and co-founder of Malloc, a cybersecurity startup, demonstrating her trajectory from academic research to technology entrepreneurship. She is a confirmed speaker at the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, representing the intersection of AI research and startup building within the Cyprus innovation ecosystem.
Arthur Bataille is the CEO of NEVERHACK Group, a European cybersecurity company headquartered in Paris, France, that provides AI-native defence services, managed detection and response, and EU-sovereign security infrastructure to organizations across Europe. Under his leadership, NEVERHACK has expanded across multiple European countries and established itself as a key player in the EU cybersecurity market. He is a confirmed opening speaker at the Nordic Baltic Security Summit 2026 in Tallinn, Estonia.
Atlantic Bridge is a Dublin- and London-headquartered growth-equity firm founded in 2004 by Brian Long, Elaine Coughlan, Gerry Maguire and Peter McManamon. It manages over €1.2bn across eight funds, including flagship growth vehicles (Atlantic Bridge III at €140M, AB IV at $317M), two China-Ireland Technology Growth Capital funds, and two University Bridge Funds (€65M + €80M) seeding deep-tech spinouts from Irish universities. Its defining 'Bridge Model' accelerates the internationalisation of European technology companies via the partners' US networks. The firm invests at expansion and growth stage — typically €10–20M cheques — across AI, next-generation semiconductors, cybersecurity, enterprise software, quantum computing and digital health. It has recorded 50+ exits worth over $7bn, including Movidius (Intel), Decawave (Qorvo), NUVIA (Qualcomm, $1.4bn) and the Nasdaq listing of Navitas Semiconductor. Active holdings include SambaNova, Vectra AI, Equal1 and Cambridge Mechatronics. The team is led by co-founders Brian Long and Elaine Coughlan with Managing Partner Kevin Dillon.
The flagship three-day edition of Slovakia's ITAPA congress at Crowne Plaza Bratislava, covering digitalisation, innovation, modern technologies & cybersecurity with high-profile Slovak and international speakers across multiple stages.
Amazon Web Services' free one-day cloud conference at Fiera Milano Rho. Keynotes, technical breakouts, hands-on labs and a partner expo covering generative AI, data, security and serverless for builders, architects and startup founders.
Founded by the creator of syslog-ng, Axoflow provides an observability and security-data routing layer for modern SOC teams. The platform helps enterprises filter, transform, and route telemetry intelligently to reduce SIEM cost pressure and improve incident investigation performance.
BalticNOG 2026 is the annual Baltic Network Operators Group conference, moving to Riga for its next edition at the Radisson Blu Latvija Conference & Spa Hotel. It unites 400+ network engineers and internet-infrastructure professionals around routing security, IPv6 deployment, network automation, cybersecurity, cloud networking and regulatory developments, plus a new community-driven 'Skunk Works' format for tackling operational challenges.
Bart Groothuis is a Dutch Member of the European Parliament (MEP) who played a central role in shaping European cybersecurity legislation, including the NIS2 Directive. Prior to his parliamentary career, he held positions at the Dutch Ministry of Defence with a focus on cyber operations and digital security. He is widely regarded as one of Europe's leading political voices on cybersecurity, digital sovereignty, and cyber defense policy.
Former Chief Marketing Officer of telecom Play, Bartosz took his strategic acumen to the startup scene. He has invested in cybersecurity startup Secfense (passwordless authentication) and other tech companies. Bartosz often advises on go-to-market strategy while investing, bridging corporate and startup worlds. Associated startups: Secfense, Booste (revenue-based financing), and a handful of ICT startups.
Bas Dunnebier serves as Chief Science and Technology Officer (CSTO) at AIVD (Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst), the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service. In this senior executive role he oversees the agency's technological research, cyber capabilities, and innovation programs. He is a key figure in the Dutch national security and cybersecurity landscape, bridging intelligence operations with advanced technology development.
Co-founder and CEO of Riot, the employee-cybersecurity platform for awareness training and phishing simulation. He previously co-founded and was CTO of the open-banking startup October.
Southeastern Europe's leading tech and innovation exhibition at Metropolitan Expo Athens, themed 'AI: Digital to Physical' for 2026, with focus on AI, cybersecurity, smart cities, ESG applications, digital governance and startups; targeting ~30,000 attendees.
Big Pi Ventures was founded in 2018 by Marco Veremis, Alex Eleftheriadis, and Aristos Doxiadis, all seasoned entrepreneurs with exits to Splunk, Meta/Facebook, and global PE. The firm manages approximately €250M in AUM across an early-stage fund (Big Pi II, €50M, 2023) and a growth fund (€130M first close, targeting €200M). It follows a tech-first investment thesis focused on AI, deep tech, biotech, and IP-heavy companies built by founders with a Greek nexus — whether based in Greece or part of the global diaspora. Notable portfolio companies include TileDB, Numan, and Accusonus (acquired by Meta).
The West Midlands' largest tech festival, a city-wide week of conferences, exhibitions, and community events. For a Midlands founder it is the main annual opportunity to raise visibility, meet regional investors, and connect with the SuperTech innovation cluster.
Bitdefender is a Bucharest-founded global cybersecurity company providing advanced threat prevention, detection, and response solutions for consumers, enterprises, and managed service providers. Founded in 2001 by Florin Talpes, the company has grown into one of the world's leading cybersecurity vendors, protecting over 500 million systems across 170+ countries with technologies spanning endpoint protection, network security, cloud workload security, and extended detection and response (XDR). Bitdefender's threat research labs are among the most respected in the industry, and the company licenses its detection technology to numerous other security vendors. With over 1,800 employees, Bitdefender is Romania's largest and most globally recognized technology company.
Cybersecurity platform for SMEs offering Stingray (compliance-focused corporate VPN) and Bluefin (threat detection and vulnerability management), targeting ISO 27001, SOC 2 and NIS 2 compliance. Raised about EUR 3M.
Formerly BotGuard, builds GateKeeper, a reverse-proxy WAF that blocks malicious bot traffic and L7 DDoS for hosting providers and SMBs across 2.3M+ websites. Raised EUR 45M Series B in 2025 led by Dawn Capital.
Bright Pixel (formerly Sonae IM) is the technology investment arm of Portugal's Sonae Group, operating as a corporate venture studio from Porto and Lisbon. Founded as Sonae IM and rebranded in 2020, Bright Pixel invests EUR 1-5M at Series A and B in cybersecurity, retail tech, telecom, and fintech companies across Europe and Israel. The firm manages over EUR 200M and has backed companies including Outsystems, Feedzai, and S21sec. Bright Pixel provides portfolio companies with strategic access to Sonae's retail and telecom operations for piloting and commercial partnerships.
Inaugural BSides chapter in Maribor: a free, community-driven information security conference at Hotel City Maribor covering offensive security, detection engineering, cloud security, AI in cybersecurity, and incident response.
A community-run technical infosec conference at ISEP Porto — workshops on Friday, then main tracks, villages, an electronic badge, and a Capture-The-Flag on Saturday, with roughly 800 attendees. Valuable for security-minded founders and engineers, and for any startup wanting to plug into Portugal's cybersecurity talent pool.
Community-driven cybersecurity conference at Kablys with a workshop day (DEF CON CTF, AI Red Teaming, Bash for hackers) plus a main conference day of talks and CTF competitions covering offensive and defensive security.
Inaugural Southeast European security industry summit at Inter Expo Center, co-organized by a&s Adria and NAFTSO. Combines exhibition and conference on smart-city security, IoT, and AI, with 30+ regional experts and a B2B matchmaking platform.
Founded in November 2022 as Azerbaijan's first domestically domiciled venture capital fund, Caucasus Ventures was established by the Innovation and Digital Development Agency, PASHA Holding, and individual investors, with a statutory capital of 11.3 million AZN (~$6.6 million). Led by General Partner Mammad Karim, the fund targets post-seed to Series A startups in fintech, edtech, SaaS, cybersecurity, gaming, and e-commerce across Azerbaijan, Georgia, Türkiye, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Portfolio companies include Vivoo, Platma, Cognitiwe, Cargon, TASS Vision, and KLIPY. The fund is distinctive as the pioneer institutional VC vehicle in the Azerbaijani ecosystem, backed by state innovation infrastructure and private capital.
Seventh edition of Georgia's flagship technology conference at Factory Tbilisi, gathering 1,000+ IT professionals and 50+ speakers across AI & digital transformation, big data, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure tracks.
Community-led cloud conference at CENTQUATRE-PARIS focused on practical engineering sessions over vendor marketing. Strong match for infrastructure startups and DevOps-first teams working on Kubernetes, platform tooling, and secure cloud operations.
Cloud-native artifact and package management platform providing a single source of truth for packages, containers and ML models across 30+ formats, with supply-chain security and global edge distribution. Founded 2016.
Automated code-quality and security platform (static analysis, SAST, secret and dependency scanning, AI guardrails) supporting 40+ languages; used by 15,000+ organizations. Founded 2012.
The 24th edition of Armenia's specialized international exhibition for IT, security and communications, organized by LOGOS EXPO Center at the Karen Demirchyan Complex in Yerevan. Thematic sections cover IT systems, cybersecurity, cloud computing, innovative technologies, medical electronics and mobile applications, with a B2B trade floor connecting vendors, integrators and corporate buyers.
Leading Polish technical security conference focused on applied hacking, incident response, and infrastructure defense. Strong venue for cybersecurity startups to validate products with practitioners and security buyers.
The Croatian Cybersecurity Institute (Hrvatski institut za kibernetičku sigurnost) is an Osijek-based organisation promoting information-security knowledge and practice in Croatia. It organises the annual Cyber Security Conference (CSC), one of the country's longest-running cybersecurity events, gathering professionals, researchers and vendors for technical talks and networking.
National cyber security cluster hosted at Munster Technological University that represents the cyber security ecosystem of industry, academia and government in Ireland. Cyber Ireland organises the Cyber Ireland National Conference (CINC), the country's flagship cyber security event.
Ireland's national cyber security conference (CINC), endorsed by the National Cyber Security Centre, at the Lyrath Estate Hotel in Kilkenny. The full-day event gathers senior leaders across industry, academia and government for keynotes, panels and interactive sessions on cyber challenges and innovation.
Expo and conference at ExCeL London focused on cloud security, zero-trust architecture, and enterprise cyber resilience, co-located with major tech expos. Attracts CISOs, IT security teams, and solution buyers. Free expo passes available; paid passes about GBP 499-1099. Relevant for cybersecurity startups seeking enterprise and government clients.
CSC 26 is the 10th edition of Croatia's International Cybersecurity Conference, held at the Kulturni centar Osijek. The multi-day event gathers cybersecurity professionals, researchers and vendors for technical talks, hands-on sessions and networking, and is organised by the Croatian Cybersecurity Institute in eastern Croatia.
Annual international cybersecurity conference organised by CERT.LV across three tracks (#CyberStory, #CyberShock, #BalticDomainDays) with policy panels, technical sessions on AI security and threat intel, plus a two-day Capture the Flag competition.
One of Europe's leading public-policy-meets-industry cybersecurity forums. For security and infrastructure founders it offers access to EU policymakers, CISOs, and defence and critical-infrastructure buyers — strong for startups navigating regulation and enterprise or government sales.
The Netherlands' premier cybersecurity event at Jaarbeurs Utrecht, gathering security professionals, IT leaders, and solution vendors. A central exhibition-and-conference venue for cybersecurity startups selling into Dutch enterprise and government.
The leading European edition of the Cybertech conference series, at La Nuvola Convention Center, Rome, gathering cyber industry leaders, enterprises, and policymakers. Relevant for security founders seeking enterprise and government buyers.
UK government's flagship cybersecurity event in Glasgow, organized by NCSC and attracting 2,000+ security professionals from government, defence, and enterprise sectors. Tickets cost about GBP 400-800. Covers national cyber strategy, threat intelligence, and resilience frameworks. Essential for govtech and infosec startups selling to public sector buyers.
Student-run cybersecurity conference focused on red teaming, AI-driven defense, and a parallel CTF competition. A strong recruiting venue for security and engineering leaders.
18th International Conference on Cyber Conflict by NATO CCDCOE, themed 'Securing Tomorrow'. Multidisciplinary tracks across legal, strategy, policy, and technology drawing 600+ decision-makers from ~50 countries.
Darktrace is a cybersecurity company founded in 2013 in Cambridge by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge alongside former intelligence professionals. The company pioneered the use of self-learning AI for cyber defense, modeling the immune system to detect novel threats and anomalous behavior across enterprise networks, cloud, email, and operational technology. Darktrace listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2021 and was later acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2024 in a deal valuing the company at approximately $5.3 billion. Its products serve over 8,000 organizations globally.
The second edition of Data Center Eurasia is an international exhibition and conference at the Istanbul Expo Center covering data centre infrastructure, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, energy efficiency and cooling, AI-powered data management, DCIM and green energy. The inaugural 2025 event drew around 4,000 visitors from 39 countries, and the conference features panels from companies, public institutions, investors and academics.
A deep-tech summit powered by Technoport that brings together Europe’s lab-to-market actors, including research institutions, technology-transfer offices, funding partners and entrepreneurs, to co-create structured deep-tech pathways. The invitation-only event features pre-arranged one-to-one matchmaking, an exhibition showcase and a demo zone of breakthrough technologies.
DefCamp is the largest cybersecurity and hacking conference in Central and Eastern Europe, held at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, with hands-on workshops running November 16-18. The 16th edition features world-class keynotes, live hacking competitions in the Hacking Village, and expert panels on AI threats, supply-chain security, and cloud security. It unites security researchers, professionals, and enthusiasts from across the region for networking and knowledge-sharing.
Defguard is a Warsaw-based open-source cybersecurity company building the only enterprise VPN platform that embeds multi-factor authentication natively at the WireGuard protocol level, closing the gap between network access and identity that standard WireGuard deployments leave open. The fully self-hosted platform unifies VPN connectivity, identity and access management, SSO (Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, LDAP, Active Directory), firewall policy orchestration and SIEM integration in a single Rust-built stack that customers run entirely on their own infrastructure — with no third-party cloud dependency and no US CLOUD Act exposure, supporting GDPR, NIS2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 compliance. Defguard spun out of teonite, a Polish software venture builder co-founded by CEO Robert Olejnik, and was publicly released on GitHub in May 2023 under an AGPL licence; its open-source core has gathered around 2,700 GitHub stars, with enterprise features under a commercial licence. In May 2025 it raised €1.2M (PLN 5.2M) in a pre-seed round led by Polish VC Hard2beat, with SMOK Ventures, S20 Team and cybersecurity firm ISEC, plus angels including Łukasz Jesis (Xopero). Version 2.0, released in April 2026, re-architected the platform with high availability and built-in SSL termination.
Leading international B2B event on AI and exponential technologies at FYCMA Málaga, bringing 400+ companies presenting 700+ innovations across AI, data, cybersecurity, cloud, IoT, retail tech, and startups to 15,000 C-level professionals.
Detectify is a Stockholm-based cybersecurity company founded in 2013 that offers an external attack surface management and web-vulnerability scanning platform, powered by a crowdsourced community of ethical hackers whose findings are automated into its product. It helps security teams continuously discover and monitor their internet-facing assets for weaknesses.
Devo is a cloud-native security data platform that replaces legacy SIEM with real-time analytics, SOAR, and AI-driven behavioral analytics. Founded in Madrid in 2011 as Logtrust, it rebranded to Devo and expanded globally with headquarters now in Cambridge, Massachusetts and its European hub in Madrid. The platform serves enterprise security operations centers with ThreatLink automated alert triage and Behavior Analytics AI models. Devo has raised $481M in total funding, including a $100M Series D from Georgian, Bessemer, and Insight Partners, and holds a US Air Force SIEM contract worth $9.5M.
Major software engineering conference on cloud architecture, CI/CD, Kubernetes, observability, platform engineering, and secure DevOps practices. Valuable for DevTools startups targeting technical buyers and for startup teams recruiting senior backend and cloud talent.
The largest tech conference in Central & Eastern Europe at Romexpo Pavilion B1, with 14 stages on AI, machine learning, cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, quantum, and dev leadership; 100,000+ developers, tech leaders, and IT decision-makers.
Scotland's biggest tech showcase — 1,500+ delegates, 60+ exhibitors, and 40+ speakers, free to attend, at the EICC Edinburgh. A cost-effective day for a Scottish founder or developer to meet enterprise buyers, exhibit, and tap the national tech community.
Denmark's largest digitalisation and deep-tech conference and expo at Øksnehallen, with 100+ sessions across multiple stages including startup pitches, drawing around 4,700 specialists, leaders, and researchers.
Deutsche Telekom's flagship digitalization event transforming downtown Cologne into a tech campus, featuring 300+ partners and 50,000+ attendees. Strong for B2B SaaS, IoT, cybersecurity, and cloud startups targeting SME digital transformation.
Digital innovation hub founded in 2017 for the Rhineland region offering structured accelerator programs, mentorship, networking, and investor access to digital startups. Focus on digital transformation with alumni in cybersecurity and enterprise software. Scope: Local (Bonn/Rhineland).
Founded 2017 as a digital innovation hub for the Rhineland region. Runs structured accelerator programs with mentorship, networking, and investor access; alumni include cybersecurity and enterprise software startups. Support: accelerator program, coworking, corporate partner access. Scope: Local (Bonn/Rhineland).
Armenia's largest technology exhibition and conference, organized since 2005 by the Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises (UATE) with support from the Government of Armenia and the Yerevan Municipality. Held annually in Yerevan, recent editions have drawn 40,000+ visitors, 250+ exhibiting companies and 100+ global tech leaders from across the region. Programming spans AI, venture capital and scaling tech companies, alongside startup competitions, hackathons and panels. Free admission.
DiHubMT is Malta's European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH), spearheaded by the Malta Digital Innovation Authority (MDIA) and inaugurated in November 2024 at the Twenty20 Business Centre in Birkirkara. It provides startups, SMEs, and public organisations with pre-acceleration, acceleration, and incubation programmes, alongside a 'Test before You Invest' technical infrastructure service, access-to-finance support, and training in AI, cybersecurity, and high-performance computing.
IDA's flagship annual IT conference at Kalvebod Brygge with approximately 38 presentations across multiple tracks including AI, security, privacy, UX, and green IT. Traditionally sells out and draws Denmark's leading software, project, and IT strategy practitioners.
EAI (European Alliance for Innovation) is a global non-profit professional society for researchers in information and communication technology, with offices in Belgium, the United States, and Slovakia. It organizes more than 200 academic conferences annually across 150+ countries and serves a community of over 250,000 members worldwide. EAI is the official organizer of the ICDF2C conference series, dedicated to digital forensics and cybercrime research, with proceedings published through Springer's LNICST series and the EU Digital Library (EUDL).
The 17th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime, hosted by the University of Iceland at the Groska Innovation Hub in Reykjavik. The 2026 theme is cyber analytics and forensics in the era of emerging AI threats, with keynotes, research presentations and tutorials drawing academics, law-enforcement practitioners and security vendors. Proceedings are published in Springer's LNICST series.
EIT Digital Accelerator is a pan-European programme backed by the EU's European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), supporting deep tech scaleups with tailored business development, investor introductions, and international customer acquisition since 2012. It operates across 18 European cities and a San Francisco hub, and has supported nearly 300 startups that collectively raised €1.5 billion, with over €100 million directly facilitated by the Accelerator. Focus areas include AI, cybersecurity, digital industry, digital health, and fintech.
Autonomous ethical-hacking platform combining AI agents and human hackers to run continuous penetration testing across external assets, internal networks, mobile apps and cloud environments.
The European Dialogue on Internet Governance is an open multi-stakeholder platform on internet governance, hosted by EURid at the European Commission's Charlemagne Building. The 2026 edition celebrates 20 years of .eu under the theme 'European Voices for the Future of the Internet'.
Developer-first encryption infrastructure that lets businesses collect, tokenize and orchestrate sensitive payment and card data without handling it in plaintext, cutting PCI DSS compliance cost and time. Founded in Dublin, 2019.
Exein is an embedded IoT cybersecurity company headquartered in Rome, Italy, founded in 2018 by Gianni Cuozzo. The company develops solutions that integrate security directly into device software (firmware), using edge AI to detect and respond to threats in real time on the device itself. Its technology is used to protect connected devices across sectors including industrial, automotive, aerospace, and critical infrastructure. The company has expanded internationally with operations beyond Italy as part of a global growth strategy.
Expon Capital is a Luxembourg-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Alain Rodermann, Jérôme Wittamer, Lily Wang, and Marc Gendebien. The firm has deployed over €90 million across 33 companies in 14 countries through successive Digital Tech Funds, with Fund IV planned for 2026. It backs seed and early-stage tech startups across cybersecurity, fintech, regtech, digital health, and edtech, with a particular focus on Luxembourg-origin companies. Notable portfolio successes include Salonkee, which grew to 250+ employees and raised a €28 million Series B led by PeakSpan Capital after Expon's initial investment.
AI-native fraud and financial-crime prevention platform for banks and payment networks, securing trillions in payments annually. Founded 2011; unicorn since 2021; selected by the ECB for Digital Euro fraud prevention.
Paris-based cybersecurity company that builds OpenCTI, an open-source threat intelligence platform used by national CERTs, defence agencies, and Fortune 500 security teams. The platform ingests and correlates threat feeds to help analysts map adversary infrastructure and prioritise incident response. Raised a Series A to accelerate international expansion.
Chief Information Security Officer at NN Group, the Dutch insurance and asset management company, responsible for cyber security strategy across the group. She is a confirmed speaker at TechEx Europe 2026 in Amsterdam on enterprise cyber resilience.
Media City Bergen's annual innovation week, anchored by the mcb tech conference for C-level and tech leaders, with workshops and open sessions. Relevant for media-tech and AI founders in western Norway.
One of Oulu's biggest autumn tech events, free and in English, gathering professionals, researchers, and entrepreneurs around AI, human-machine collaboration, and dual-use and cybersecurity themes.
GapMinder Ventures is a Bucharest-based early-stage VC firm investing in B2B deep tech and SaaS startups from Romania and Southeast Europe, with portfolio companies including Druid.AI, FintechOS, TypingDNA, and Cyscale. Its second fund, GapMinder Fund II, targets €80 million — described as the largest VC fund with a primary Romania focus — and deploys first tickets up to €2.5 million in seed and late-seed stage companies across fintech, cybersecurity, enterprise automation, and data analytics. The fund targets founders from Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria.
Inaugural Türkiye edition of the global GITEX brand at Istanbul Expo Center, convening AI, cybersecurity, fintech, cloud, e-commerce, and data-center leaders, backed by Türkiye's Ministry of Industry & Technology and Dubai World Trade Centre.
Organizer of GITEX Europe, a global-scale tech conference and exhibition focused on AI, cybersecurity, and digital finance. Launched in Berlin in 2025 as the European expansion of the Dubai-based GITEX Global brand, the event targets 30,000+ attendees and brings together startups, scaleups, and enterprise buyers across multiple tech verticals.
Berlin edition of the global GITEX brand focused on sovereign AI, cybersecurity, and digital finance, connecting European startups with international buyers and investors. The event uses tiered passes (from low-cost expo tickets to premium access) and features Supernova startup competitions, with reported equity-free funding prizes up to EUR 100,000.
Central European geopolitics-meets-technology summit in Bratislava organized by GLOBSEC, covering cybersecurity, digital sovereignty, energy transition, and CEE innovation policy. Draws diplomats, defense-tech founders, and security-policy researchers. By invitation and application.
GO Ventures is the corporate venture arm of GO plc, Malta's leading telecommunications provider, launched in 2019 with a dedicated €2 million fund to back technology-driven startups globally. The firm invests at Seed and Series A stages, taking an active role in supporting founders with strategic and operational guidance alongside capital. Its focus spans AI, fintech, cybersecurity, big data, and IoT, and its portfolio includes two unicorns — MPL and Airalo — alongside holdings in Raylo, ToumAI, and Fairatmos. With a small, hands-on team led by Head of Investments Paul Grech, GO Ventures operates as one of the few institutional corporate VCs domiciled in Malta.
Cybersecurity SaaS delivering Zero Trust Architecture as a service for SMBs: business VPN, ZTNA, secure web gateway, MFA and device posture checks, deployable in minutes and used by 1,000+ customers in 120+ countries.
GoTech World (formerly Internet & Mobile World) is the leading B2B expo-conference in Central and Eastern Europe, held at Romexpo's B1 Pavilion in Bucharest. The two-day event spreads 100+ exhibitors and top international and local speakers across multiple stages covering AI, cybersecurity, digital marketing, smart cities, and software development, drawing around 15,000 business professionals. A major selling and networking venue for B2B and enterprise-tech startups.
A major software-engineering conference at TAP1 in Copenhagen under the 2026 theme of engineering for reality, covering distributed systems, testing and debugging, legacy modernization, resilience and observability, security, sustainable computing and agentic AI software development. It is one of the longest-running developer conferences in the Nordics.
Berlin-based AI startup fighting disinformation by analysing the origin and publication context of images and videos to make reliable authenticity assessments. Built on a multi-agent framework of proprietary fine-tuned models developed in collaboration with DFKI. Won the SPRIND Deepfake Detection Challenge Award.
Co-founder of Snyk, the developer-security company, and previously CTO of Akamai's web-experience business after it acquired his startup Blaze. A prolific application-security expert and author.
Hack The Box is an Athens-founded cybersecurity training and upskilling platform that provides hands-on hacking labs, capture-the-flag challenges, and continuous skill assessment for security professionals and teams. The platform has built a global community of over 2 million members and serves enterprise clients including Fortune 500 companies looking to benchmark and develop their security workforce. Founded in 2017 by Haris Pylarinos, the company has raised over $55 million and represents one of Greece's fastest-growing tech companies, operating at the intersection of cybersecurity, gaming mechanics, and workforce development.
Handwave is a Riga-based biometrics-as-a-service startup founded in 2021 by Janis Stirna and Sandis Osmanis-Usmanis that replaces cards, phones, and apps with a palm scan for payments, age verification, loyalty activation, and access control. The platform captures both surface palm lines and subdermal vein structures to build a unique encrypted biometric ID backed by two-factor authentication. Handwave has raised €4.3 million in total funding, including a €3.6 million seed round in 2025 led by Practica Capital with participation from FirstPick and Inovo.vc, and is piloting with live retailers across Europe and the US.
Hard2beat is a Wrocław-based pre-seed and seed venture fund founded in 2024 by Maciej Zawadziński — a serial entrepreneur with three exits including Piwik PRO (sold to Kirk Kapital in 2023) — alongside Maciej Frankowicz and Konrad Trzyna, who previously ran Shape VC's BRIdge Alpha programme. The fund closed at 84M PLN (~€20M), with PFR Ventures providing 56.5M PLN under the FENG programme and 30 private investors contributing the rest. Hard2beat backs Polish deep-tech founders from pre-revenue to early revenue with 1–3M PLN initial cheques and follow-on up to 8M PLN, targeting teams with a genuine technical moat in cybersecurity, medtech, biotech, devtools, dual-use/defence, gamedev, robotics and spacetech — explicitly avoiding B2C and shallow AI. By mid-2026 it had made seven investments including the open-source cybersecurity platform Defguard, autonomous UAV startup DefendEye, Alzheimer's wearable developer Neuromedical, neuroprotection biotech Pikralida, Unreal Engine AI copilot Ludus AI, and devtools company Graftcode (€2.1M, led with DigitalOcean Ventures, 2026).
Grand finale of the 2026 HIPTHER Baltics series at Hilton Tallinn Park. Three parallel tracks on digital governance, fintech compliance, AML, digital identity, and Nordic market expansion with 150+ delegates and 30+ speakers.
HT Solutions is a Tbilisi-based IT consulting and technology services company with over 15 years of experience, serving enterprises, SMBs, and startups across cybersecurity, cloud computing, data management, and network infrastructure. The firm partners with major technology vendors including Palo Alto Networks, Google Cloud, and VMware, having completed over 1,000 projects for 200+ clients. HT Solutions organizes the annual Change Inspire Conference, Georgia's premier multi-track technology event now in its seventh year, attracting 1,000+ participants from across the region.
Icebreaker.vc was founded in 2017 in Helsinki by Aleksi Partanen, Lasse Lehtinen, Riku Sepälä, and Teddie Wardi to address the pre-seed funding gap in Finland, Estonia, and Sweden. The firm targets idea-stage companies with tickets of €150,000–€1.5 million, with Fund III targeting €30 million. Portfolio standouts include Hoxhunt (raised $40M Series B), Aibidia ($28M Series B), and ReOrbit (€45M Series A). Icebreaker is known for its diversity focus, backing 3.5× more immigrant founders than the Finnish VC average.
ICT Hub Venture is a private investment fund founded in 2017 as the capital arm of ICT Hub, one of Serbia's pioneering startup incubators. It focuses on pre-seed and seed technology startups in the SEE region, offering up to €50,000 in exchange for 5–15% equity alongside a structured development program and ecosystem access. The fund positions itself as the only private early-stage fund in the SEE region dedicated to scalable B2B and B2C tech solutions. Portfolio includes cybersecurity platform Trickest and scheduling marketplace randevu, among 15+ companies as of 2024.
Luxembourg's largest tech conference held at the European Convention Center, attracting 5,000+ attendees from the fintech, space tech, and cybersecurity sectors. Strong institutional presence from EU bodies and Luxembourg's financial regulators. Features a startup pitch zone and investor meetings. Tickets from EUR 200.
identifAI builds AI-powered deepfake and synthetic media detection technology, using 36 proprietary de-generative models to analyze images, videos, and audio for manipulation at pixel-level probabilistic patterns rather than superficial artefacts. Founded in 2024 in Cesena and Milan by cybersecurity veterans Marco Ramilli and Marco Castaldo, the company serves insurers, healthcare providers, HR departments, financial institutions, and government agencies for KYC verification and fraud prevention. Processing millions of checks daily, identifAI has raised €7.2 million (including €5 million led by United Ventures), was named a sample vendor in Gartner's 2026 Emerging Tech report, and counts Experian and KPMG among its clients.
The 20th-anniversary edition of the IEEE International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies, hosted by ADA University in Baku with technical co-sponsorship from IEEE and its Azerbaijan chapters. The program spans 12 tracks and 80+ topics including data science, machine learning, cybersecurity and software engineering, drawing researchers, academics and industry practitioners from across the Caucasus, Central Asia and Europe.
INCIBE, the Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute, is the public body driving Spain's cybersecurity ecosystem and the organiser of ENISE, the country's benchmark cybersecurity event. It supports companies, startups, public administrations and researchers through programmes, funding and matchmaking around digital security.
Slovenia's biggest cybersecurity conference, running for over 20 years, covering practical security, privacy, and AI-security topics for a professional audience. Relevant to security-focused founders and notable as a flagship event outside the capital.
Large software and startup conference at AmberExpo with 6,000+ attendees, 500+ startups, and 200+ investors. Startup Contest offers EUR 30,000 and the agenda is especially strong for developer tools and data-heavy products.
41st edition of ASIT's regional ICT conference and exhibition, gathering Southeast European public-sector IT leaders and vendors around current topics in government technology, security, and digital services.
Infrastructure security forum hosted at Sound Garden Hotel focused on resilience of critical systems in utilities, telecom, and enterprise IT. High-signal venue for cybersecurity startups targeting B2B and public-sector pilots in Poland.
A major cyber security gathering at Olympia London with 100+ global suppliers, three stages, live demonstrations and 100+ speakers. It attracts thousands of senior visitors and government officials from across the world, offering visibility for cyber security startups and vendors.
ISTC is a joint innovation center established in 2015 by IBM, USAID, the Government of Armenia, and the Enterprise Incubator Foundation, located on the Yerevan State University campus. It provides startup incubation, machine-learning and cybersecurity training, a coworking space, cloud services, and cybersecurity solutions for SMEs, all hosted in a 1,000-square-metre facility powered by IBM and HP infrastructure.
Enterprise IT and B2B software conference with practical case studies and buyer-facing sessions. Useful for SaaS and cybersecurity startups seeking pilot contracts and distribution partnerships in Poland.
Hungary's leading independent cybersecurity conference and expo, spread across 5,300 m² at the Bálna National Defense Center. Covers AI risks, NIS2, OT, fraud, and cyber sovereignty.
Client-side security platform that protects JavaScript and web pages from tampering, supply-chain attacks and data leaks, with PCI DSS and GDPR compliance tooling. Trusted by Fortune 500 firms.
Co-founder and CTO of Filigran, leading engineering for its open-source threat-intelligence and breach-and-attack-simulation platforms.
Founded in 2016 by Kristjan Laanemaa, Margus Uudam, and Tommi Uhari, Karma Ventures is one of Estonia's most prominent deep-tech venture capital firms. Its €70M Fund I and €100M Fund II back late-seed and Series A European deep-tech software startups, with tickets up to €5M. The firm is particularly active in AI, cybersecurity, health tech, and enterprise software across Europe. Notable portfolio companies include Starship Technologies, Tuum (formerly Modularbank), Sonarworks, Infermedica, and CybExer Technologies, establishing Karma as the go-to Tallinn-based partner for hard-tech European founders.
Data scientist and privacy engineer, author of Practical Data Privacy, specialising in machine learning, data security and responsible AI systems. She is a confirmed speaker at GOTO Copenhagen 2026, where she presents on designing and running AI agents locally and securely.
Kinisis Ventures was co-founded in 2018 by Andreas Panayi and Yiannos Georgiades as a Cyprus-US bridge accelerator and investment firm, with its registered office in Nicosia. Its regulated KV Kinisis Ventures Fund RAIF VCIC (KV Fund I and II), managed in partnership with AIFCAP Managers and licensed by CySEC, is the first CySEC-registered early-stage VC focused exclusively on Cypriot technology companies targeting US market expansion. The fund writes seed tickets of €1.5M–€4M in cybersecurity, fintech, AI-enabled platforms, and energy-tech, with portfolio companies including Threedium (3D imaging), Phase3D (metal-printing quality assurance), and Autonomics Tech (autonomous industrial robotics).
Kultuurikatel-hosted summit with 3,500+ attendees and 600+ investors. The Latitude59 Pitch Competition can reach EUR 1M in syndicate investment and the program heavily features digital-state and defense-tech themes.
Lead Ventures is a Budapest-based independent VC firm founded in 2017, specialising in late-Seed and Series A investments in scale-ups across Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics. The firm closed its second fund at €100 million in 2024, deploying initial tickets of €2–5 million with follow-on capacity up to €10 million. It has backed over 20 companies and claims the largest VC exit in Hungarian history with its investment in AImotive, acquired by Stellantis. Beyond capital, the firm differentiates on access to an international network of industry operators and domain experts.
Level39 is London's leading fintech and cybersecurity innovation hub, located on the 39th floor of One Canada Square in Canary Wharf. Founded in 2013 by the Canary Wharf Group, Level39 provides workspace, mentorship, and business development support to over 200 high-growth technology companies specializing in financial technology, cybersecurity, retail tech, and smart city solutions. Its location in the heart of London's financial district gives members direct proximity to major banks, insurers, and financial institutions that serve as both customers and partners. Level39 runs structured growth programs, investor showcases, and corporate innovation partnerships, and has become the focal point for fintech entrepreneurship in Europe. Notable alumni and members include Revolut (in its early days), Onfido, and numerous regtech and blockchain startups. The hub also hosts a dense calendar of ecosystem events, making it a key gathering point for the London fintech community.
The largest tech and innovation conference in the Baltics, held annually in Vilnius with 4,000+ attendees. Covers startup pitching, fintech, AI, and cybersecurity with international speakers. Tickets range from EUR 100-300, offering strong value for the quality of content and networking.
Lotem Finkelstein is the Director of Threat Intelligence & Research at Check Point Research, the dedicated threat intelligence division of Check Point Software Technologies, one of the world's largest cybersecurity companies. He leads a global team of analysts and researchers tracking advanced persistent threats, malware campaigns, and emerging cyber attack vectors. Finkelstein is a widely cited cybersecurity expert and a regular contributor to industry threat intelligence reports and publications.
Two-day governance, risk and compliance summit at the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce, powered by NC3. The 2026 edition centres on cyber governance in the age of AI, covering sovereign AI, European Data Spaces and post-quantum cryptography.
Annual conference organized by LU-CIX (Luxembourg Commercial Internet Exchange) covering cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and data center innovation. Luxembourg hosts major EU data infrastructure and this event attracts 1,200+ IT professionals, CTOs, and digital infrastructure investors. Tickets from EUR 150-300.
LuxTrust is the Luxembourg public-private joint venture that runs the country's national digital-identity and qualified electronic-signature infrastructure, and is effectively the backbone that lets Luxembourgish citizens, banks, and corporates sign contracts, file taxes, and access sensitive public services online with legally binding eIDAS-qualified signatures. Founded in 2005 and co-owned by the Luxembourg state alongside most of the country's major banks, LuxTrust has become one of the largest qualified trust service providers in the EU and one of the reference implementations of how an EU member state can stand up an interoperable, bank-grade identity layer ahead of the upcoming European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet) rollout. For the directory, LuxTrust is a rare example of a core sovereign-tech asset that has the commercial surface area of a scale-up, and a useful anchor for understanding Luxembourg's outsized role in European digital-identity and regtech.
A large umbrella tech event with 27,000+ visitors, 470+ exhibitors, and 400+ speakers, bundling cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, big data, and e-commerce shows at IFEMA Madrid. For B2B SaaS and infrastructure founders it is an enterprise lead-generation and exhibitor venue targeting IT decision-makers.
Malloc is a Nicosia-based AI-driven mobile cybersecurity company, founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator (YC S21), Urban Innovation Fund, and Dragon Capital. The company develops on-device protection against spyware, surveillance, and data theft for individuals, enterprises, and government agencies, with over one million users worldwide. Its flagship product, Antistalker, detects and blocks unauthorised microphone and camera access in real time. Malloc collaborates with NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, and VISA on privacy and AI-based defence research.
Mandy Andress is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Elastic, a major enterprise software and data observability platform. She is also recognized as an investor and board member in the cybersecurity sector, bringing extensive experience in enterprise security strategy and risk governance. Andress is a prominent figure in the global cybersecurity community and a frequent speaker at leading industry events worldwide.
Marathon Venture Capital was founded in 2017 by George Tziralis and Panos Papadopoulos (co-founder of BugSense, acquired by Splunk) in Athens to back ambitious Greek and diaspora founders building global technology companies. Fund I reached €32M and Fund II expanded to €70M; Fund III closed at €75M in May 2025 (with €20M from EIF), bringing total AUM to approximately €175M. The fund leads seed rounds of €500K–€1M in sectors including cybersecurity, AI, defense tech, robotics, and energy. Notable portfolio companies include Hack The Box (cybersecurity training, $55M Series B led by Carlyle) and Augmenta (precision agriculture robotics, acquired by CNH Industrial for $110M).
Minalogic is a French competitiveness cluster dedicated to digital transformation in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, microelectronics, IoT, and photonics. With approximately 450 member organizations spanning startups, SMEs, large corporations, and research institutions, Minalogic has facilitated more than 1,040 labeled and funded innovation projects since 2005 and generated over 16,300 B2B meetings since 2012. The cluster is an ecosystem partner of SIDO Lyon and a connector between industry and innovation communities in the region.
The central government body responsible for Armenia's high-tech policy, covering information technology, telecommunications, information security, and the military-industrial sector. Established in its current form in 2019, it shapes the national tech agenda through startup and R&D support programmes, tax incentives for IT companies, STEM-education initiatives, and the promotion of Armenia's tech sector abroad, and is a standing institutional supporter of DigiTec.
Nethone is an AI-driven fraud-detection platform that profiles user sessions using thousands of behavioural, device and network signals to flag fraud in real time, helping online businesses and payment platforms make accurate accept/reject decisions. Acquired by Mangopay in 2022.
NEVERHACK Estonia is a leading cybersecurity solutions provider headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, with over 15 years of experience serving Estonian and regional markets. The company offers Security Operations Center (SOC) services, offensive security assessments, incident response, and security consulting to private and public sector organizations. As the Estonian arm of the NEVERHACK Group, it organizes and hosts the Nordic Baltic Security Summit, the region's premier annual cybersecurity conference.
Co-founder of Darktrace and its long-time CEO and later Chief Strategy Officer, helping pioneer the 'immune system' approach to enterprise cybersecurity using machine learning.
UK-based exhibitions organiser behind International Cyber Expo and other security and emergency-services events at Olympia London. Nineteen Group builds large-scale trade shows that connect global suppliers, government officials and security leaders with technology buyers.
Nord Security is a Vilnius-based cybersecurity company founded in 2012 that builds a family of privacy and security products including NordVPN, NordPass (password manager), NordLocker (encrypted file storage), and NordLayer (business network security). NordVPN is one of the most recognized consumer VPN brands globally with tens of millions of users. The company employs over 2,000 people and has grown into one of the highest-valued private technology companies in the Baltic region. Nord Security represents Lithuania's strongest global consumer cybersecurity brand and a major anchor of the Vilnius tech ecosystem.
A one-day summit focused on AI acceleration, digital dependency, and geopolitical risk, convening security leaders and tech vendors. A focused stage for security and defence founders selling into the Nordic-Baltic public and enterprise sector.
One of Poland's largest community cybersecurity conferences, returning for its 8th edition at the PGE Narodowy stadium. For security founders, pentesters, and infrastructure engineers it offers a large practitioner audience and a strong recruiting and networking surface in the Polish infosec scene.
Omorika Ventures is a Belgrade-based seed and early Series A fund launched in 2024 to address the shortage of institutional early-stage capital in Serbia and the broader Balkans. The fund secured €5 million in public co-funding through the Innovation Fund of Serbia's Serbia Ventures program and is operated by three founding partners with deep roots in the regional startup ecosystem via ICT Hub. It invests in tech companies with globally ambitious Serbian founders, providing capital alongside strategic support, mentorship, and international investor introductions. Portfolio companies include cybersecurity platform Trickest and HR-tech startup OneAssessment.
Onum is a real-time telemetry-pipeline platform that ingests, enriches, filters and routes large volumes of security and observability data before it reaches a SIEM or data lake, cutting storage costs and speeding incident response. Acquired by CrowdStrike in 2025.
Organiser of the Open Source Conference Luxembourg, a gathering of international Open Source Program Offices and related organisations. The conference exchanges experience on implementing and securing open-source software across the public sector, AI and large language models, cybersecurity, academia and humanitarian use.
A one-day conference at the Belval campus themed around leading by example in digital sovereignty, gathering international Open Source Program Offices and related organisations. Participants exchange experience on implementing and securing open-source software across the public sector, AI and large language models, cybersecurity, academia and humanitarian use.
European-wide open-source business and technical conference in Brussels, bringing together 5,000+ OSS contributors, European corporate users of open source, and public-sector decision-makers. Program covers enterprise OSS strategy, supply-chain security, European digital sovereignty, and sustainable OSS funding models. Tickets EUR 200-500.
Agentic security platform that automates threat modelling for engineering teams using AI coding tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot. Continuously maps codebase architecture, flags security risks and delivers contextual remediations in developer workflows; in production at Miro and Tandem Health.
Outlast Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm co-headquartered in Riga and Stockholm, founded in 2024 by Egita Polanska, Marija Rucevska, Kristaps Prusis, and Mikaela Pedersen. The fund closed its debut €21 million vehicle backed by Latvian sovereign fund Altum, the EU's ERDF, and Baltic angel investors. It targets pre-seed tickets up to €250k and seed rounds up to €1.5 million, with a focus on B2B SaaS, fintech, and cybersecurity across the Baltics and Nordics.
Overmind provides a security and control layer for agentic AI deployments in enterprise systems. The platform supervises autonomous agent behavior in live workflows and intervenes when actions appear unsafe, adversarially influenced, or outside policy constraints.
Builds a Rust-based secure operating system and toolchain for safety-critical automotive ECUs, aiming to cut development time while improving memory safety and security for car software.
Founded in 2013 by Andrea Di Camillo — a serial entrepreneur behind Vitaminic and Banzai and an early investor in Yoox and Venere — P101 is one of Italy's most prominent early-stage VC firms, managing approximately €500 million AUM. Its latest vehicle, Programma 103, closed at €250 million in early 2025, targeting early-stage startups in fintech, proptech, edtech, and cybersecurity with an average ticket of €5 million. Over 12 years P101 has backed 58+ companies and completed roughly 290 transactions with ~20 exits; standout portfolio names include Musixmatch (acquired by TPG for ~$500 million in 2023). The firm has a stated goal that Programma 103 companies will collectively generate €5 billion in revenue and 3,000+ jobs by 2030.
Palsit d.o.o. is a Slovenian company specializing in cybersecurity knowledge events and professional communities, based in Šempeter pri Gorici near Nova Gorica. The company organizes over nine annual conferences, most notably INFOSEK — Slovenia's largest information security conference — alongside ZEIDES, BIZTOPIX, CIO SUMMIT, and AiSEK. Palsit also operates professional clubs for IT professionals, ethical hackers, AI practitioners, and GDPR officers, collectively reaching over 2,130 participants per year with more than 320 speakers and 140 sponsors.
A veteran CEO (founder of DDB Warsaw marketing agency), Paweł became an active angel in his late career. He won Poland’s Business Angel of the Year 2020 for investing in and mentoring innovative startups. Notably, he was an early backer of retail AI platform Cosmose AI and has supported regtech and cybersecurity startups like ClauseMatch, Nethone, and BotGuard. Associated startups: Cosmose AI, ClauseMatch, Nethone, BotGuard.
Spanish serial deep-tech entrepreneur. He co-founded and was CTO of Devo (formerly Logtrust), the data analytics and security platform, and later co-founded and led Onum, the real-time telemetry-pipeline company acquired by CrowdStrike in 2025.
Partner at Accel investing in cloud, SaaS, AI and security across Europe and Israel. He authors Accel's influential annual Euroscape report tracking the region's cloud and AI momentum.
Picus Security is an Ankara-founded cybersecurity company that built one of the earliest commercial breach-and-attack simulation (BAS) platforms — software that continuously runs safe, controlled attack techniques against an enterprise's production environment to see which ones are actually detected and blocked by the deployed security stack. Instead of trusting vendor claims, security teams get a measured, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped view of where their SIEM, EDR, firewalls, and email gateways are silently failing. Founded in 2013 by Alper Memiş and Volkan Ertürk, Picus has raised over USD 80 million from Turkvent, Earlybird, and Mastercard Ventures among others, and is regularly named a leader in Gartner's security validation and exposure management categories. It is one of the most internationally credible Turkish cybersecurity companies and a strong example of the region's deep-tech security talent.
Pieter Cobelens is a former Director-General of the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD), the Netherlands' agency responsible for military intelligence collection, counterintelligence, and signals intelligence. He has extensive experience in strategic national security, international intelligence cooperation, and military cyber operations. Following his government career, Cobelens has been active as a speaker, commentator, and advisor on intelligence and security policy topics.
Co-founder and former CEO of Darktrace, the Cambridge cyber-AI company she led to a 2021 London IPO. One of the UK's most prominent tech executives, she was appointed a UK investment minister in 2024.
PortfoLion is the venture capital and growth equity arm of OTP Bank, Hungary's largest bank, managing approximately €440 million in AUM across three distinct funds targeting seed, growth, and turnaround stages. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Budapest, it is the most prominent institutional VC in the CEE region by assets under management, with 64 portfolio companies across Hungary and wider Central and Eastern Europe. Its seed fund deploys €500k–€3 million per ticket and the growth fund €5–30 million, with notable investments including SEON (which went on to raise $150 million from Creandum and IVP) and Tresorit (acquired by Swiss Post). The firm has a team of 33 professionals including five partners.
Primo Ventures (operating entity: Primomiglio SGR), led by chairman Gianluca Dettori and founded in 2016, is a Milan-based VC managing approximately €530 million in assets across digital and space-focused funds. It launched the first Italian venture capital fund dedicated to space technologies — Primo Space Fund (target €80 million, first close €58 million) — in partnership with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Fondazione E. Amaldi, backing deep-space logistics, propulsion, and AI for spacecraft. Portfolio investments include D-Orbit (space logistics, Series C co-lead) and AIKO (AI for autonomous spacecraft operations). Beyond space, its digital fund invests in B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, and fintech at seed and early-growth stages.
Developer-first Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and API vulnerability scanner. Founded 2016 in Portugal; raised EUR 7.7M Series A in 2022; acquired by Snyk in November 2024.
A premium B2B cybersecurity conference held at the Hotel Ski & Wellness Residence Družba in the Low Tatras (Nízke Tatry), Slovakia. The two-day programme brings CISOs and security professionals together for keynotes, panel discussions and peer networking on emerging threats, compliance and regulation, AI in security, and turning experience into real-world security decisions.
Frankfurt-based cyber threat intelligence company that delivers AI-analysed, contextualised threat reports ready to act on without a dedicated in-house team. Its platform Mercury and conversational AI analyst KARLA monitor digital threats, geopolitical risk, and supply-chain exposure for European mid-market organisations. Raised €7.3M Series A in April 2026.
Resistant AI focuses on AI-driven fraud detection for financial services, specifically identifying manipulated documents used in KYC and onboarding. Its models detect fake paystubs, doctored IDs, and synthetic documents that bypass traditional checks. As digital fraud grows more sophisticated, Resistant AI has become a critical partner for fintechs and banks. By 2026, it is a leading Czech player in the FinTech security category.
Revo Capital is Turkey's largest technology-focused venture capital firm, founded in 2013 by Cenk Bayrakdar and Berkin Toktaş, having raised over $250M across three funds. Fund II closed at a landmark €90M in 2021 — oversubscribed with backing from IFC, EBRD, EIF, DEG, and the Turkish Development and Investment Bank — and Fund III reached an $86M first close in 2024 targeting over $100M. The firm has invested in 48 startups across Turkey, Eastern Europe, and the Baltics, achieving 18 exits and producing unicorns Getir and Builder.ai; portfolio companies have attracted $3.5B in follow-on capital between 2021 and 2025. Revo concentrates on early-stage B2B and B2C ventures in fintech, SaaS, cybersecurity, health tech, AI, and gaming.
Cybersecurity startup launched in 2022 offering a European-focused cyber threat intelligence platform. It monitors darknet, deep web, and messaging channels for leaks and compromised credentials and helps teams detect phishing domains before campaigns go live.
Latvia's leading business technology conference and expo at the Kipsala Exhibition Hall. Covers digital transformation, cybersecurity, and enterprise IT with 2,000+ attendees. Strong presence of Baltic corporates seeking startup partnerships and technology vendors. Tickets from EUR 50.
Vulnerability-management platform built by the founders of the Paris pentest firm Mobeta. It ingests penetration-test reports from any provider and turns them into dynamic dashboards with automated re-verification scripts that confirm remediation without manual counter-audits. Available as SaaS or on-premise, compliant with NIS2, DORA and ISO 27001, hosted in France on Scaleway.
Paris-based cybersecurity startup that trains employees to recognise phishing and social-engineering threats through automated, personalised awareness campaigns and simulated phishing exercises delivered inside existing work tools. Serves over 1,000 companies across Europe and the US.
Two-day high-tech expo and forum at the Karen Demirchyan Complex where Armenian R&D companies, engineering teams, and research centers showcase products across cybersecurity, defense, and engineering. Organized by the Union of ICT Employers with the Ministry of High-Tech Industry, with three thematic forum tracks and 50+ exhibitor booths.
Risto Siilasmaa is a Finnish serial entrepreneur and corporate board leader, best known as the founder of WithSecure (formerly F-Secure), one of the most recognized cybersecurity companies to emerge from the Nordic region. He served as Chairman of Nokia from 2012 to 2020, steering the company through its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent and its transformation into a major 5G infrastructure provider. Siilasmaa is a frequent keynote speaker on technology leadership and board governance and is a confirmed speaker at NORDEEP 2026.
Co-founder and CEO of Filigran, the open-source cyber-threat-intelligence company behind OpenCTI. A former French cyber-agency leader, he scaled Filigran with backing from Insight, Accel and Eurazeo.
Secfense was founded in 2018 in Kraków by Tomasz Kowalski and Marcin Szary. The company develops a User Access Security Broker that lets enterprises deploy multi-factor authentication and passwordless login across existing applications without modifying their code. It raised early backing from Bitspiration Booster followed by a $2M round in 2022 led by Tera Ventures, Presto Ventures, and RKKVC, and counts enterprise clients such as BNP Paribas Bank Polska.
Security Delta (HSD) is the Dutch national security innovation cluster, headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, bringing together over 300 companies, government organizations, and knowledge institutions since 2013. The organization facilitates collaboration in cybersecurity and safety through knowledge sharing, innovation programs, talent development, and market access initiatives. HSD serves as the central hub of the Dutch cybersecurity ecosystem, managing thematic programs in Cyber Security & Resilience, Data & AI, and Smart Secure Societies.
SEON is a Budapest-founded fraud prevention platform that helps online businesses detect and block fraudulent transactions, account takeovers, and synthetic identities using real-time digital footprint analysis and machine learning. The platform enriches transaction data with social media signals, device intelligence, and behavioral patterns to score risk without adding friction to legitimate users. SEON has raised over $100 million and serves customers across fintech, e-commerce, iGaming, and digital banking. It is one of Hungary's most prominent cybersecurity startups and demonstrates the country's strength in building globally competitive fraud and risk management technology.
Partner at Index Ventures and one of the firm's leading enterprise and security investors, known for backing Datadog and Wiz. He has been a repeat Forbes Midas List performer and helps anchor Index's US cybersecurity and infrastructure portfolio.
Germany's main government-tech and smart-city conference organized by Bitkom at Messe Berlin, focusing on digital public services, AI in government, smart infrastructure, and cybersecurity for the public sector. Draws 15,000+ civil servants, govtech startups, and enterprise solution providers. Tickets from EUR 0 (expo) to EUR 300+ (conference).
SmartGateVC is a pre-seed and seed deep-tech venture fund co-headquartered in Yerevan and Glendale, California, founded in 2018. It focuses on AI applied to healthcare, biotech, security, and IoT, and manages a portfolio of over 40 companies. The fund is backed by Tim Draper and One Way Ventures, and the majority of its portfolio companies leverage Armenia for R&D operations.
Snyk is a developer security platform founded in 2015 in London that helps software teams find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies, container images, infrastructure-as-code, and proprietary code. The company raised over $1 billion in funding and reached a peak valuation of $8.5 billion in 2021, becoming one of Europe's most valuable cybersecurity startups. Snyk integrates directly into developer workflows and CI/CD pipelines, positioning security as a developer-first concern. It serves over 1,500 enterprise customers including Google, Salesforce, and Atlassian.
Slovakia's flagship technology and public-administration conference at Crowne Plaza Bratislava, covering agent-based AI, cybersecurity, digital sovereignty, post-quantum security & modern eGovernment with Meet-the-Speakers and masterclass formats.
Startup OLÉ is one of Spain's largest open-innovation and entrepreneurship events, turning Salamanca into an international hub for three days. The 2026 edition combines a startup fair and pitch competitions with specialised forums in AI, cybersecurity and quantum computing, backed by the University of Salamanca and Spain's INCIBE cybersecurity institute.
Startup Wise Guys is a Tallinn-founded B2B startup accelerator and early-stage VC founded in 2012, operating as one of the most active and prolific accelerators in the Central and Eastern European ecosystem. The firm runs over 45 sector-specific programmes annually spanning fintech, cybersecurity, SaaS, sustainability, and agritech, and has invested in over 600 startups from more than 60 countries. Its most recent fund of €45 million reached a first close of €25 million in 2023. Startup Wise Guys provides €100K–200K investments at pre-seed stage in exchange for equity, combined with intensive hands-on mentorship from operators and investors. Notable portfolio exits include VitalFields (acquired by Climate Corporation), StepShot (acquired by UiPath), and VOCHI (acquired by Pinterest).
Amsterdam hub of Startupbootcamp (est. 2010) running 3-month accelerators in fintech, cybersecurity, smart cities, IoT, and commerce. Provides EUR 15K seed funding, 6% equity, mentorship, and partner deals; alumni include early Adyen mentoring. Scope: International.
Nordic region's leading digital-transformation expo at Kistamässan, with six co-located shows on AI & Big Data, Cloud, Cyber Security, DevOps, Data Centre, and Mobile. Free entry, 5,000+ visitors, 250+ exhibitors.
Stoïk is a Paris-based insurtech founded in 2021 that combines cyber insurance with cybersecurity software for small and medium-sized businesses. It bundles coverage with active risk-monitoring and scanning tools to help SMEs both insure against and reduce their exposure to cyber risk. The company operates across several European markets including France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Austria and Luxembourg. After a 25M euro Series B in 2024 led by Alven, Stoïk raised a 20M euro Series C in January 2026, co-led by Impala and Opera Tech Ventures, to advance its AI agents and expand across Europe.
Switzerland's flagship cybersecurity conference in Zurich featuring CISO panels, live attack simulations, and a startup zone for security vendors. Attracts 2,000+ security professionals, government officials, and enterprise buyers. Tickets from CHF 150.
Long-established Swiss IT security conference at Kursaal Bern bringing international speakers to a national audience of students, technical practitioners, security officers and CISOs. The 2026 theme is 'Shadow IT'.
Swisscom Ventures is the strategic corporate venture arm of Swisscom, Switzerland's largest telecom and ICT operator, and is one of the most active corporate venture investors in the Swiss ecosystem. Founded in 2007 and operating with offices in Bern, Zurich, and Silicon Valley, the firm invests in early- and growth-stage technology companies across cybersecurity, digital health, cloud infrastructure, AI, and network-adjacent deep tech, with particular interest in startups that can leverage Swisscom's distribution, data, or network assets. Portfolio companies have included Cato Networks, Mirakl, Scandit, Digital Asset, and Exeger. Swisscom Ventures pairs well with the traditional Swiss financial-VC bench by providing strategic commercial partnerships, regulatory navigation, and European telecom channel access alongside capital, which is particularly valuable for founders in regulated infrastructure categories.
Developer-first event aligned with MWC week, featuring coding sessions, architecture deep dives, and hackathon-style programs around AI, cloud, and cybersecurity. Useful for startup engineering recruiting and employer branding with senior technical talent.
An enterprise-tech mega-event at Porte de Versailles bundling five co-located shows covering cloud and AI infrastructure, DevOps, cloud and cyber security, data and AI leadership, and data centres. For infrastructure, devtools, and security startups it is a single badge to reach enterprise IT buyers across the whole stack.
A large enterprise-technology event of eight co-located shows under one roof at RAI Amsterdam, spanning AI and Big Data, Cyber Security and Cloud, IoT, Digital Transformation, Intelligent Automation, Edge Computing and Data Centres. It draws thousands of attendees, 200-plus speakers and exhibitors, targeting CTOs, data and AI leaders and digital transformation executives.
Connectivity and digitalization forum at ATTA Centre with 600+ speakers and guests covering digital sovereignty, AI adoption, 5G/6G, defence tech, digital identity, satellite connectivity and European data centres under the theme 'Security and Prosperity Through Digitalization and Connectivity'.
Tesonet is a Vilnius-based founders-led venture builder founded in 2008 by Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas. The group builds, accelerates, and invests in technology products across cybersecurity, AI, web intelligence, EdTech, and SportTech verticals. Its portfolio companies include Oxylabs, Surfshark, and nexos.ai, in addition to the better-known Nord Security and Hostinger. The group employs over 3,500 people and operates Cyber City, a 35,000 m² tech campus in Vilnius.
Tines is a Dublin-founded enterprise software company building workflow automation for security, IT, and operations teams. The product became well known in cybersecurity because it gives frontline analysts a low-code way to automate repetitive response tasks without needing to maintain brittle custom scripts. Teams can connect alerts, ticketing tools, identity systems, cloud platforms, and communication apps into visual workflows that investigate incidents, enrich context, trigger approvals, and execute remediation steps automatically. That lowers manual workload while preserving auditability and human control over higher-risk actions. Over time, Tines has expanded beyond pure security orchestration into broader internal operations, making the platform useful anywhere a company needs reliable API-based workflow execution across multiple tools. Its traction reflects a larger shift in enterprise software toward operator-owned automation rather than centralized engineering bottlenecks. In the European ecosystem, Tines is also a strong example of an Irish infrastructure startup that scaled into a global category while staying connected to the region's talent and capital networks.
Bitkom's flagship business-tech festival in Berlin connecting digital industry leaders, policymakers, and startups with 10,000+ attendees. The event covers AI, cloud, cybersecurity, sustainability tech, and digital transformation across keynotes, deep-dive tracks, and a startup expo.
Tresorit is a Budapest-founded end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and file-collaboration company that positioned itself very early as the privacy-first European alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive for regulated industries: law firms, healthcare, financial services, and — notably — government and defense teams in Europe that cannot legally store sensitive files with US hyperscalers. Founded in 2011 by István Lám, Szilveszter Szebeni, and György Szilágyi, the product is built around zero-knowledge client-side encryption, so files are encrypted before they leave the user's device and Tresorit itself cannot read them even if compelled. The company famously ran a public one-million-dollar hacking challenge to demonstrate the robustness of its encryption, and has since been repeatedly cited by European regulators and data-protection authorities as a model for GDPR-aligned cloud collaboration. In 2021 Swiss Post acquired a majority stake in Tresorit as part of its digital sovereignty push — one of the most strategically significant Hungarian deep-tech exits.
Trickest is an offensive security automation platform built for bug bounty hunters, penetration testers, and enterprise SecOps teams. Founded in 2020 by Nenad Zaric — a former top-ranked HackerOne researcher with credits at Uber, PayPal, and Snapchat — and Mihailo Tomic, the platform provides a visual workflow builder and a large library of tool nodes for attack surface mapping, vulnerability scanning, and automated recon. Teams can compose, share, and run complex security workflows without custom scripting. Trickest raised a €1.4M seed round backed by Credo Ventures and Earlybird Digital East, with angel investors including UiPath's Daniel Dines.
Security researcher and creator of Have I Been Pwned, the widely used service that lets people check whether their accounts have been exposed in data breaches. He is a confirmed speaker at GOTO Copenhagen 2026, addressing web security and lessons from real-world breaches.
TypingDNA is a Romanian cybersecurity startup that turns the way you type — your keystroke rhythm, dwell and flight times, and typing cadence — into a behavioral biometric signature that can authenticate users continuously or at login without any additional hardware. The core product, TypingDNA Verify, is used by banks, exchanges, and remote-proctored exam providers as a friction-light second factor or anti-fraud signal, and the company also offers ActiveLock, a desktop app that locks the computer automatically when a different typist takes over the keyboard. Founded in 2016 by Raul Popa, Cristian Tamas, and Adrian Gheara, TypingDNA was backed by Google Ventures (GV) in 2020 in one of the first GV investments into Romania, and remains one of the most technically distinctive Romanian cybersecurity companies — a useful counterpart to Bitdefender's broader endpoint and consumer security presence.
Founded in 2013 by Massimiliano Magrini (former Google Italy MD) and Paolo Gesess, United Ventures is one of Italy's leading independent technology-focused VC firms, with cumulative AUM approaching €500 million across three funds including a €150 million early-stage Fund III (launched 2023) and a dedicated growth vehicle, UV T-Growth. The firm targets software, fintech, cybersecurity, cloud, IoT, and marketplace companies predominantly at Series A, co-investing across Italy and Europe. Its portfolio of 51 companies has generated 10 acquisitions and 2 IPOs; landmark investments include Musixmatch (10x+ return on exit to TPG), Everli (Series C lead, €22 million), and Cleafy (Series B, 2026).
Founded 2011. Telefonica's open innovation hub connecting startups to telecom, IoT, and cybersecurity opportunities; typically invests around EUR 150K for equity and provides partnerships. Supports 500+ startups across 10 countries; notable alum Carto. Scope: International.
Xopero Software is a Polish cybersecurity company building enterprise backup, disaster-recovery and data-protection solutions, including Xopero ONE, an MSP platform and GitProtect.io for DevOps environments (GitHub, GitLab, Jira). Poland's first cloud-backup provider for SMEs, it serves 100,000+ customers.
The 10th anniversary international conference on electronic identification and trust services, held at the Brdo Congress Center near Kranj. Organized by the Slovenian Association for Electronic Identification and Trust Services (EIDES) with Palsit, the 2026 edition focuses on the European Digital Identity Wallet, remote identification, biometrics, information security and AI-related threats.