Berlin's Unosecur, which secures and manages identities across cloud and on-premise environments, has secured $5 million in a seed funding round, with an additional $3 million in oversubscribed commitments. VentureFriends and DFF Ventures led the round.
- Founded in 2021 by Santhosh Jayaprakash, Unosecur offers a robust platform designed to secure and manage human and non-human identities across cloud and on-premise environments.
- The platform features agentless, real-time scanning and uses AI-driven insights to detect unusual identity behavior. Unosecur supports the entire identity lifecycle, including discovery, monitoring, access control, governance, and automated remediation, giving organizations complete visibility and control over their identity infrastructure.
- It integrates seamlessly with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and helps ensure compliance through policy enforcement, access reviews, and intuitive no-code workflows.
Details of the deal
- VentureFriends, a venture capital firm that backs startups across Europe and the MENA region at pre-seed and seed stages, with investments ranging from €500,000 to €2.5 million, and Amsterdam-based DFF Ventures (Dutch Founders Fund) led the round.
"Identity security is the Achilles’ heel of cloud infrastructure, and Unosecur is building the definitive solution at a pace that sets them apart. Rapid adoption by major enterprises proves that they’re solving a universal and urgent problem. We’re excited to back a team that’s redefining how identity threats are managed at scale,” explains Maarten Engelen, Partner at DFF Ventures.
- The round also saw support from Leo Capital, HEARTFELT_ (APX), and several business angels.
- Unosecur will use the funding to enhance its platform with advanced threat detection and AI-driven risk analysis, expand globally, and scale its team to meet growing enterprise demand.
“This funding milestone fuels our long and continuous process of tackling the ever-changing ways in which identities are misused in hybrid environments,” founder and CEO of Unosecur, Santhosh Jayaprakash, stated.
