London-based cybersecurity startup CybaVerse has secured €5.9 million in Sequence A funding to speed up its progress and product improvement. The spherical was co-led by Pembroke VCT and Airbridge Fairness Companions, with participation from Haatch, and authorized assist supplied by boutique agency Culbert Ellis.
Based in 2018, CybaVerse has developed from a boutique consultancy right into a rising UK cybersecurity vendor with almost 40 staff and a quickly increasing buyer base. The corporate’s mission is to make cybersecurity less complicated, extra environment friendly, and extra accessible for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Managed Service Suppliers (MSPs).
The brand new funding will assist CybaVerse’s enlargement right into a scalable SaaS progress mannequin, boosting its gross sales and advertising efforts, rising the staff, and accelerating the event of CybaOps, its proprietary cybersecurity administration platform.
CybaOps combines detection, compliance, safety, and testing right into a single SaaS product designed for SMEs and MSPs. Its white-labelled mannequin permits companions to rebrand and resell the platform effectively, serving to them strengthen defences and automate key safety processes at scale.
Previously 12 months, CybaVerse reported 180% income progress and 90% buyer retention. The Sequence A follows a €1.3 million spherical in 2024 and the acquisition of SecureAck, in addition to CybaVerse’s shortlisting within the CRN Channel Awards 2025 underneath the “Rising Star Safety Vendor of the Yr” class.
Oliver Spence, CEO of CybaVerse, mentioned: “This funding marks an thrilling new chapter for CybaVerse. Having such a excessive calibre of buyers on board validates our imaginative and prescient to design and ship modern options that empower MSPs and SMEs. With this funding, we are going to speed up CybaOps improvement, improve AI-driven options, and develop our staff to convey smarter, extra scalable safety to MSPs and SMEs, all whereas staying true to our mission of simplifying cybersecurity for everybody.”
Fred Ursell, Head of Investments at Pembroke Funding Managers, mentioned: “Cybersecurity has turn into an arms race that almost all small companies merely can’t afford to combat. CybaVerse ranges the enjoying subject – giving SMEs and their IT companions enterprise-grade safety by way of automation, not armies of analysts. Ollie’s background in military-grade cyber operations, mixed with a transparent business intuition, has constructed a platform that turns complicated safety into one thing easy, scalable, and efficient. It’s a sensible UK firm fixing a worldwide downside, and we’re proud to again their subsequent part of progress.”
Robin Rensen, Companion at Airbridge Fairness Companions, mentioned: “Cyber safety is more and more changing into a board-level precedence for the long-tail SME market, but too many of those companies stay underserved by legacy options. CybaVerse is altering that. Ollie, Gemma and the staff have constructed a product-first firm that mixes deep technical experience with a pointy understanding of buyer ache factors. The result’s a really sturdy firm defending many corporations immediately, and effectively ready to more and more accomplish that by way of channel companions. We’re thrilled to again CybaVerse alongside Pembroke and Haatch. We look ahead to supporting the staff as they scale their mission of constructing sturdy cybersecurity accessible to all companies.”
Jonathan Keeling, Companion at Haatch, mentioned: “We first backed CybaVerse in 2024 and have watched the staff execute brilliantly, rising income, increasing their product, and tripling the corporate’s share worth in simply over a 12 months. Ollie and the staff are constructing a category-defining platform in one of many fastest-growing sectors in tech. We’re thrilled to double down on our conviction and be part of an excellent group of growth-stage buyers as CybaVerse continues to scale.”
With the brand new funding, CybaVerse plans to strengthen its market place, develop its platform’s AI-driven options, and proceed simplifying cybersecurity for smaller organisations.
