Paris-based startup Filigran is quick changing into the following cybersecurity rocketship to trace: The corporate simply raised a $35 million Sequence B spherical, just a few months after it raised $16 million in a Sequence A spherical.
Filigran’s principal product is OpenCTI, an open-source risk intelligence platform that lets firms or public sector organizations import risk information from a number of sources, and enrich that information set with intel from suppliers akin to CrowdStrike, SentinelOne or Sekoia.
The open-source model of OpenCTI has attracted contributions from 4,300 cybersecurity professionals and been downloaded hundreds of thousands of instances. The European Fee, the FBI and the New York Metropolis Cyber Command all use OpenCTI. The corporate additionally affords an enterprise version that can be utilized as a software-as-a-service product or hosted on premises, and its purchasers embody Airbus, Marriott, Thales, Hermès, Rivian and Bouygues Telecom.
Filigran has been capitalizing on that success so as to add different merchandise and construct a full-fledged cybersecurity suite dubbed eXtended Risk Administration (XTM) suite.
One other product is OpenBAS, a seashore and assault simulation platform. You need to use OpenCTI and OpenBAS individually, however utilizing them supposedly collectively supplies a greater overview of the potential dangers.
Filigran is making the most of the truth that it’s at all times simpler to launch a second product when your first product is widespread. The startup is already engaged on its third product.
“By 2026, our purpose is to supply a complete suite of three complementary merchandise, offering end-to-end options in risk administration that straight handle the complicated cybersecurity challenges confronted by trendy organizations,” co-founder and CEO Samuel Hassine advised TechCrunch.
Apparently, Filigran can be drawing inspiration from GitHub and Hugging Face, the primary hubs for open-source software program growth and synthetic intelligence growth, respectively. Filigran desires to launch XTM Hub — “a collaborative platform designed to empower the cybersecurity group” — by the top of the yr, Hassine mentioned.
“The hub will function a central discussion board the place customers can entry assets, share tradecraft and join with others within the Filigran ecosystem,” he added.
Perception Companions is main the Sequence B spherical, with present buyers Accel and Moonfire investing as soon as once more. Along with product growth, a portion of this funding spherical will probably be used to broaden Filigran’s presence in different areas. The corporate operates in France, the U.S. and Australia, and plans to broaden to Germany, Japan and Singapore.
