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London-based cybersecurity startup Infrawatch has raised $3
million in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Outward VC and Triple Point Ventures, with participation from Portfolio Ventures and a group of fintech and
cybersecurity angel investors.
Founded by Lloyd Davies and built by a team of former
employees from CrowdStrike, Recorded Future and Intel 471, Infrawatch is
developing what it describes as an Internet Infrastructure Intelligence Layer
for cybersecurity, fraud prevention and online investigations.
The company’s platform is designed to help organisations
identify and monitor the infrastructure underpinning cyberattacks, phishing
campaigns, scams and online abuse. According to Infrawatch, while attackers
frequently change accounts, payloads and tactics, the internet infrastructure
they rely on leaves identifiable patterns that can be tracked and analysed
before threats scale further.
Its platform processes tens of billions of internet events
each day, transforming internet-scale visibility into actionable intelligence.
The system provides organisations with information about infrastructure
behaviour, potential operators and trustworthiness, while enabling teams to
create custom detection rules alongside pre-built threat monitoring
capabilities.
According to Lloyd Davies, founder and CEO of Infrawatch, infrastructure
intelligence remains highly fragmented, with organisations relying on noisy
data feeds and disconnected workflows that often fail to provide genuinely
real-time threat detection:
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.
The new funding will support the company’s next stage of
growth, including expansion of its engineering and research teams, further
platform development ahead of a planned public launch later this year, early
enterprise deployments, and expansion into the United States.