Berlin-based Secfix, a cybersecurity company, announced that it has raised €3.6M in an oversubscribed Seed round of funding led by Octopus Ventures.
Neosfer, which belongs to Commerzbank, and the founders of Signavio and Blair, as well as existing investors and serial entrepreneurs also participated in the round.
Secfix says it will use the funds to accelerate its Europe expansion, boost product growth, and expand customer support. In addition, it will use the funds to expand its tool integration offering and increase the platform’s level of automation.
Fabiola Munguia, Grigory Emelianov, and Branko Džakula founded Secfix after running a marketplace for ethical hackers. The trio realized that many customers requested assistance in achieving an ISO 27001 certification.
The founders understood the urgent need for a solution that could streamline the certification process for small and medium-sized businesses…Thus, Secfix was born.
Secfix automates everything to set up IT security for small and medium-sized businesses to meet the highest levels of compliance and get certified in the security standards they need to meet – ISO 27001, TISAX, GDPR, and SOC 2.
The German startup helps companies meet security standards by connecting to their tech stack, including platforms such as Azure, Office365, AWS, GCP, Jira, and Personio.
It then collects the required information and generates a checklist to help them become and remain certified in the standards they need.
Secfix says its platform can save businesses hundreds of engineering hours and gets them compliant in weeks, while also saving auditors at least 30 percent of their time and effort.
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