Paris-based startup Filigran is quick changing into the subsequent cybersecurity rocketship to trace: The corporate simply raised a $35 million Collection B spherical, just a few months after it raised $16 million in a Collection A spherical.
Filigran’s principal product is OpenCTI, an open-source menace intelligence platform that lets corporations or public sector organizations import menace information from a number of sources, and enrich that information set with intel from suppliers equivalent to CrowdStrike, SentinelOne or Sekoia.
The open-source model of OpenCTI has attracted contributions from 4,300 cybersecurity professionals and been downloaded thousands and thousands of instances. The European Fee, the FBI and the New York Metropolis Cyber Command all use OpenCTI. The corporate additionally presents 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 gives a greater overview of the potential dangers.
Filigran is profiting from the truth that it’s at all times simpler to launch a second product when your first product is fashionable. The startup is already engaged on its third product.
“By 2026, our objective is to supply a complete suite of three complementary merchandise, offering end-to-end options in menace administration that instantly handle the advanced cybersecurity challenges confronted by trendy organizations,” co-founder and CEO Samuel Hassine advised TechCrunch.
Curiously, Filigran can also be drawing inspiration from GitHub and Hugging Face, the principle hubs for open-source software program improvement and synthetic intelligence improvement, respectively. Filigran desires to launch XTM Hub — “a collaborative platform designed to empower the cybersecurity neighborhood” — by the top of the yr, Hassine stated.
“The hub will function a central discussion board the place customers can entry sources, share tradecraft and join with others within the Filigran ecosystem,” he added.
Perception Companions is main the Collection B spherical, with present traders Accel and Moonfire investing as soon as once more. Along with product improvement, a portion of this funding spherical can be used to develop Filigran’s presence in different areas. The corporate operates in France, the U.S. and Australia, and plans to develop to Germany, Japan and Singapore.
