London-based security startup Cyb3r Operations has secured a $5.4m (£4m) investment round led by Octopus Ventures.
Founded in 2021, Cyb3r Operations was launched to replace fragmented corporate risk management processes. The company’s platform offers oversight of an organisation’s tech stack, providing guidance on risk factors beyond scores and grades.
“One of the biggest problems in cybersecurity today isn’t just how advanced threat actors are getting. It’s that we’re stumbling over our own processes. Organisations lack basic visibility into where risk actually sits,” said the startup’s founder and chief executive, Vincent Cook.
“Exporting vendor lists from CRM or procurement systems and manually uploading them into another siloed tool is no longer good enough.
Cook said that organisations are becoming disillusioned with third-party risk managment providers, with many simply providing “meaningless risk scores and static assessments that don’t reflect how companies actually work”.
He said: “Real risk sits in relationships, dependencies, employee exposure, and how those things change over time.
“Our mission is to enable organisations the ability to continuously detect, assess, and respond to threats in order to stay ahead.”
The new funding round, which includes a follow-on investment from existing backer Pi Labs, brings the startup’s total funding to £5m.
“We invested in Cyb3r Operations because they’re tackling a critical blind spot in cybersecurity: the growing gap between perceived third-party risk and real exposure,” said Octopus Ventures investor Constanza Diaz.
“As organisations scale their digital ecosystems, risk now flows through suppliers, SaaS tools and hidden dependencies, but most teams are still operating reactively. Cyb3r Operations delivers continuous, contextual visibility across the tech stack, making third-party risk genuinely actionable.”
