RIOT raises $ 30 million for its cybersecurity product focused on employees

French startup Rebellion He raised a $ 30 million Serie B circle after reaching $ 10 million in 2024. It initially focuses on employees’ training about cybersecurity risks, now the company wants to go one step and press employees so that to minimize its attacking surface.

Left Lane Capital is a leader of today’s round with existing investors Y Combinator, Base10 and FunersClub again participate. From what TechCrunch learned, Riot’s has reached a grade after money north of $ 170 million after the Serie B.

Initially, Riot started with false phishing campaigns. Employees regularly receive emails that look like real emails. But they are intended to deceive employees to click on the connections and to enter personal information.

In this way, employees learn that they should be more renowned about incoming emails. Over time, the company added another educational content with a friendly security chat called Albert. It can be accessible to Slack and Microsoft teams.

This strategy has been working well so far as Riot is currently interacting with one million employees in 1500 companies. Customers include L’Occitane, Deel, Intercom and Le Monde. (A few years ago, Riot only worked with 100,000 employees.)

Nevertheless, cyber accidents are still increasing with widespread consequences. A recent example is a violation of healthcare data affects 190 million Americans and started with compromised identification data of a user service. An employee uses the same password for his personal account and changes Citrix Portal to Healthcare – there was no multi -factor authentication of Citrix.

That is why Riot wants to grow beyond the training of employees. “Our job is to look at the staff of the employees. Do they activate a multifactor authentication? Do they have a security code on their smartphone? Their LinkedIn privacy settings are not too permits? There are many things that employees can introduce, which will generally impede the life of hackers, “Riot Benjamin Netter’s founder and CEO told TechCrunch.

Riot calls its next product platform for employee protection. This will become a central pilot security cabin for employee levels. Although there are many values ​​management solutions, Riot believes that employees have been neglected too long.

This is where you would fit into the Cybersecurity Landscape based on the company’s terrain:

“What we create with the platform is that we will automatically analyze the security of the employees … and give a result that we have called a karma assessment, which will be an indicator of the employee Pose,” Netter said.

Riot will then press the employee to change the setup here, activate the multifactorial authentication there. “The little things you can do will take you a minute or two and this will actually make it difficult for the life of the hackers,” Netter added.

This will be an interesting challenge for Riot, as employee security also depends on their cyber hygiene of personal devices and services. Phishing campaigns are now happening in WhatsApp. LinkedIn profiles are widely used for social engineering Attacks too.

That is why this new security product will look a little more like a consumer product, with nice animations and some gaming features to stimulate you to improve your security posture.

“My long -term vision is to build an employee security company and provide all the instruments in the employee security stack. So it is possible to do one day – I’ll give you a stupid example – an antivirus or a password manager, “said a nonsense.

But first, with today’s funding round, the company also has more money to grow faster. The team plans to open new offices in other countries and increase its customer base to develop these more complex products.