London-based security startup Cyb3r Operations has raised £4m in an investment round led by Octopus Ventures. The funding round also included follow-on investment from existing backer Pi Labs, bringing the company’s total funding to date to £5m.
Founded in 2021, Cyb3r Operations was established to replace fragmented and manual corporate risk management processes. The company’s platform provides organisations with comprehensive oversight of their entire technology stack, offering specific guidance on risk factors that move beyond traditional static scores and grades.
Vincent Cook, founder and chief executive of Cyb3r Operations, explained that the current challenge in cybersecurity is often internal process failure rather than just external threats. He said: “Organisations lack basic visibility into where risk actually sits. Exporting vendor lists from CRM or procurement systems and manually uploading them into another siloed tool is no longer good enough.”
Cook noted that many businesses are becoming disillusioned with existing third-party risk management providers that offer “meaningless risk scores” that do not reflect actual operations. He added: “Real risk sits in relationships, dependencies, employee exposure, and how those things change over time.”
The startup intends to use the capital to further its mission of enabling organisations to continuously detect and respond to threats. By providing contextual visibility across the tech stack, the platform aims to help security teams stay ahead of risks flowing through suppliers and SaaS tools.
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