Cybersecurity startup ecosystem
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 214 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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Birmingham Tech Week 2026
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.
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Bitdefender
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.
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Blackshell
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.
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Blackwall
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.
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Bright Pixel (Sonae IM)
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.
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BSides Maribor 2026
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.
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BSides Porto 2026
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.
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BSides Vilnius 2026 - Security Theater
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.
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Bulgarian Security Summit 2026
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.
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Caucasus Ventures
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.
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Change Inspire Conference 2026
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.
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Cloud Native Days France 2026
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.
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Cloud Native Days France 2027
Cloud Native Days France 2027 takes place 3 June at CENTQUATRE-Paris, organised by the Cloud Native France association. The one-day conference gathers the French-speaking cloud native and DevOps community, open to juniors through senior architects and decision-makers, for talks on infrastructure, DevOps, cloud native and open source practices.
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Cloudsmith
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.
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Codacy
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.
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Comp EXPO 2026
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.
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CONFidence 2026
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.
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CONFidence 2027
CONFidence's next edition runs 24-25 May 2027, with 2027 tickets already on sale. The leading Polish technical security conference focuses on applied hacking, incident response, and infrastructure defense, a strong venue for cybersecurity startups to validate products with practitioners.
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Croatian Cybersecurity Institute
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.
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Cyber Ireland
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.
