Infrawatch has raised a $3m (£2.2m) pre-seed round to build out its internet infrastructure intelligence layer, a new category of cybersecurity platform.
The startup gives security, fraud and investigations teams real-time visibility into the infrastructure powering cyber attacks, fraud and scams, phishing, and online abuse.
Attackers constantly change tactics, accounts and payloads, but the infrastructure they depend on leaves a persistent trail. That infrastructure can be identified, tracked, blocked and mitigated before it is used at scale.
Infrawatch is built around this, combining large-scale intelligence collection with real-time classification to help organisations move from reactive monitoring to pre-emptive defence in the form of a single intelligence layer that replaces fragmented solutions and noisy feeds.
The pre-seed round was co-led by Outward VC and Triple Point Ventures, with participation from Portfolio Ventures and fintech and cyber angel investors.
The new funding will support Infrawatch’s next stage of growth, including the expansion of its engineering and research teams, accelerated platform development ahead of general launch later this year, early enterprise customer deployments, and the company’s expansion into the US.
“I know from first-hand experience how broken infrastructure intelligence is today: fragmented data, noisy feeds and taped-together workflows where ‘real-time’ detection often means static daily updates in practice,” says Lloyd Davies, founder and CEO of Infrawatch.
“Enterprises cannot keep up by patching together narrow intelligence feeds while the internet changes beneath them. That is why we built Infrawatch from the ground up: to turn one of the most underutilised aspects of cybersecurity into a practical defence layer that empowers defenders to act earlier and stop threats before they reach their customers, users or systems.”
