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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Handwave
Handwave is a Riga-based biometrics-as-a-service startup founded in 2021 by Janis Stirna and Sandis Osmanis-Usmanis that replaces cards, phones, and apps with a palm scan for payments, age verification, loyalty activation, and access control. The platform captures both surface palm lines and subdermal vein structures to build a unique encrypted biometric ID backed by two-factor authentication. Handwave has raised €4.3 million in total funding, including a €3.6 million seed round in 2025 led by Practica Capital with participation from FirstPick and Inovo.vc, and is piloting with live retailers across Europe and the US.
Hard2beat VC
Hard2beat is a Wrocław-based pre-seed and seed venture fund founded in 2024 by Maciej Zawadziński — a serial entrepreneur with three exits including Piwik PRO (sold to Kirk Kapital in 2023) — alongside Maciej Frankowicz and Konrad Trzyna, who previously ran Shape VC's BRIdge Alpha programme. The fund closed at 84M PLN (~€20M), with PFR Ventures providing 56.5M PLN under the FENG programme and 30 private investors contributing the rest. Hard2beat backs Polish deep-tech founders from pre-revenue to early revenue with 1–3M PLN initial cheques and follow-on up to 8M PLN, targeting teams with a genuine technical moat in cybersecurity, medtech, biotech, devtools, dual-use/defence, gamedev, robotics and spacetech — explicitly avoiding B2C and shallow AI. By mid-2026 it had made seven investments including the open-source cybersecurity platform Defguard, autonomous UAV startup DefendEye, Alzheimer's wearable developer Neuromedical, neuroprotection biotech Pikralida, Unreal Engine AI copilot Ludus AI, and devtools company Graftcode (€2.1M, led with DigitalOcean Ventures, 2026).
HIPTHER Baltics, Nordics: Tallinn 2026
Grand finale of the 2026 HIPTHER Baltics series at Hilton Tallinn Park. Three parallel tracks on digital governance, fintech compliance, AML, digital identity, and Nordic market expansion with 150+ delegates and 30+ speakers.
Hoxhunt
Hoxhunt is a Helsinki-based security behavior change platform that runs phishing simulations and personalised security awareness training to reduce human cyber risk inside organisations. Its product suite covers security operations support alongside behavior change and security culture programmes, gamifying employee training to drive engagement. The company is headquartered in Helsinki with an additional office in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Hoxton Ventures
Hoxton Ventures is a London firm that calls itself European venture with a Silicon Valley mindset, backing companies in Europe and the US and pushing them at the US market early. It is deliberately anti-thematic, investing in new market categories that are not obvious at the time, and names Deliveroo, Darktrace and Preply among roughly 90 portfolio companies.
HT Solutions
HT Solutions is a Tbilisi-based IT consulting and technology services company with over 15 years of experience, serving enterprises, SMBs, and startups across cybersecurity, cloud computing, data management, and network infrastructure. The firm partners with major technology vendors including Palo Alto Networks, Google Cloud, and VMware, having completed over 1,000 projects for 200+ clients. HT Solutions organizes the annual Change Inspire Conference, Georgia's premier multi-track technology event now in its seventh year, attracting 1,000+ participants from across the region.
Icebreaker.vc
Icebreaker.vc was founded in 2017 in Helsinki by Aleksi Partanen, Lasse Lehtinen, Riku Sepälä, and Teddie Wardi to address the pre-seed funding gap in Finland, Estonia, and Sweden. The firm targets idea-stage companies with tickets of €150,000–€1.5 million, with Fund III targeting €30 million. Portfolio standouts include Hoxhunt (raised $40M Series B), Aibidia ($28M Series B), and ReOrbit (€45M Series A). Icebreaker is known for its diversity focus, backing 3.5× more immigrant founders than the Finnish VC average.
ICT Hub Venture
ICT Hub Venture is a private investment fund founded in 2017 as the capital arm of ICT Hub, one of Serbia's pioneering startup incubators. It focuses on pre-seed and seed technology startups in the SEE region, offering up to €50,000 in exchange for 5–15% equity alongside a structured development program and ecosystem access. The fund positions itself as the only private early-stage fund in the SEE region dedicated to scalable B2B and B2C tech solutions. Portfolio includes cybersecurity platform Trickest and scheduling marketplace randevu, among 15+ companies as of 2024.
ICT Spring 2026
Luxembourg's largest tech conference held at the European Convention Center, attracting 5,000+ attendees from the fintech, space tech, and cybersecurity sectors. Strong institutional presence from EU bodies and Luxembourg's financial regulators. Features a startup pitch zone and investor meetings. Tickets from EUR 200.
identifAI
identifAI builds AI-powered deepfake and synthetic media detection technology, using 36 proprietary de-generative models to analyze images, videos, and audio for manipulation at pixel-level probabilistic patterns rather than superficial artefacts. Founded in 2024 in Cesena and Milan by cybersecurity veterans Marco Ramilli and Marco Castaldo, the company serves insurers, healthcare providers, HR departments, financial institutions, and government agencies for KYC verification and fraud prevention. Processing millions of checks daily, identifAI has raised €7.2 million (including €5 million led by United Ventures), was named a sample vendor in Gartner's 2026 Emerging Tech report, and counts Experian and KPMG among its clients.
IEEE AICT 2026 - Application of Information and Communication Technologies
The 20th-anniversary edition of the IEEE International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies, hosted by ADA University in Baku with technical co-sponsorship from IEEE and its Azerbaijan chapters. The program spans 12 tracks and 80+ topics including data science, machine learning, cybersecurity and software engineering, drawing researchers, academics and industry practitioners from across the Caucasus, Central Asia and Europe.
INCIBE
INCIBE, the Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute, is the public body driving Spain's cybersecurity ecosystem and the organiser of ENISE, the country's benchmark cybersecurity event. It supports companies, startups, public administrations and researchers through programmes, funding and matchmaking around digital security.
INFOSEK 2026
Slovenia's biggest cybersecurity conference, running for over 20 years, covering practical security, privacy, and AI-security topics for a professional audience. Relevant to security-focused founders and notable as a flagship event outside the capital.
Infoshare 2026
Large software and startup conference at AmberExpo with 6,000+ attendees, 500+ startups, and 200+ investors. Startup Contest offers EUR 30,000 and the agenda is especially strong for developer tools and data-heavy products.
Infoshare 2027
Infoshare 2027 takes place at AmberExpo in Gdansk, 19-20 May, one of Central and Eastern Europe's leading tech conferences. The event covers developer tools, data science, cybersecurity, martech and AI, drawing startups, corporates and investors from across the region.
Infotech 2026
41st edition of ASIT's regional ICT conference and exhibition, gathering Southeast European public-sector IT leaders and vendors around current topics in government technology, security, and digital services.
Infotech 2027
Infotech's next edition runs 2-3 June 2027 at Hotel Izvor, Aranđelovac. ASIT's regional ICT conference and exhibition gathers Southeast European public-sector IT leaders and vendors around government technology, security, and digital services.
InfraSEC Forum 2026
Infrastructure security forum hosted at Sound Garden Hotel focused on resilience of critical systems in utilities, telecom, and enterprise IT. High-signal venue for cybersecurity startups targeting B2B and public-sector pilots in Poland.
International Cyber Expo 2026
A major cyber security gathering at Olympia London with 100+ global suppliers, three stages, live demonstrations and 100+ speakers. It attracts thousands of senior visitors and government officials from across the world, offering visibility for cyber security startups and vendors.
Internxt
Internxt (Internxt Universal Technologies SL) is a Valencia-based encrypted cloud storage company positioning itself as a European privacy-first alternative to US tech giants. Its zero-knowledge, post-quantum encrypted suite includes Internxt Drive, Antivirus, VPN, Cleaner, Meet, Mail, and Photos, built on open-source, independently audited code so that only the user holds the keys to their data. Internxt has received the Deloitte Fast 50 Award recognising Europe's fastest-growing companies.
