Strand Intelligence, a Manchester-based cybersecurity software company, has closed a \u00a31m seed round. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The round was led by Osney Capital and will be used to accelerate the startup\u2019s hiring and product development plans. Founded in 2025 and based in Ancoats, Strand is building automation for Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), the investigative work that follows a security incident. Its platform automates investigations across cloud and endpoint environments and claims to deliver investigations up to five times faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company\u2019s co-founders, Will Poole and Oli Fletcher, met as next-door neighbours and developed the idea for Stra<\/sup>nd while talking over the garden fence.<\/sup><\/sup><\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fletcher said: \u201cHaving explored a variety of technology hubs across the UK, Manchester is the clear leader for new business innovation, talent, ambition and a thriving community that backs each other. Our business will remain Manchester-centric as we expand operations down to the south of England, out into EMEA and North America over the coming months and years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Poole added: \u201cAfter a decade across multiple cybersecurity investigation roles, not much has changed. Ten years of new and improved proactive security software has come out. Security teams have more data than ever, but when things go wrong, which they do at an ever-increasing rate, we fall back, as we always have, on our most important and scarce resource: human expertise. That is the problem we built Strand to solve, taking the heavy investigation work off people so their expertise goes where it actually matters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Image source: BusinessCloud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Strand Intelligence, a Manchester-based cybersecurity software company, has closed a \u00a31m seed round. The round was led by Osney Capital and will be used to accelerate the startup\u2019s hiring and product development plans. Founded in 2025 and based in Ancoats, Strand is building automation for Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), the investigative work that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-6905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-manchester"],"yoast_head":"\n