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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Julien Richard
Co-founder and CTO of Filigran, leading engineering for its open-source threat-intelligence and breach-and-attack-simulation platforms.
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Karma Ventures
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.
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Katharine Jarmul
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.
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Kinisis Ventures
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).
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Latitude59 2026
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.
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Lead Ventures
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.
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Level39
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.
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LOGIN Conference 2026
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.
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LOGIN Conference 2027
LOGIN Conference 2027 takes place in Vilnius on 7-8 October, organised by Delfi. The Lithuanian tech and startup conference covers fintech, AI, cybersecurity and the broader Baltic startup ecosystem.
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Lotem Finkelstein
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.
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Luxembourg GRC Summit 2026
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.
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Luxembourg GRC Summit 2027
Luxembourg GRC Summit's next edition is confirmed for 2-3 June 2027 at the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce. The governance, risk and compliance summit, powered by NC3, covers cyber governance, sovereign AI, European Data Spaces, and post-quantum cryptography for GRC professionals and cybersecurity decision-makers.
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Luxembourg Internet Days 2026
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.
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LuxTrust
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.
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Madrid Tech Show 2026
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.
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Malloc
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.
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Mandy Andress
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.
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Marathon Venture Capital
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).
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Minalogic
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.
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Ministry of High-Tech Industry of Armenia
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.
