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 228 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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Big Pi Ventures
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Maia, in Greater Porto. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cacttus
Kosovar IT company specialising in software development and systems integration, offering consulting, design and project management alongside technical support. Its practice areas span network and telecommunications, smart solutions, cybersecurity, and transport and signalling systems. It also runs the Cacttus Mobility, Cacttus Media and Cacttus Business Solution product lines.
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.
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.
ČIKOM
Podgorica technology company and ICT Cortex member working in digital transformation and cybersecurity, under the motto informatika sa ljudskim likom, informatics with a human face. It delivers infrastructure and data centre solutions, software development, network services and a security operations practice, alongside managed IT support and training for Montenegrin businesses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
