“30-40% of a company’s IT infrastructure isn’t even known by security teams”. Therefore, startups have appeared that simulate broad-based cyber-attacks. One such startup is Netherlands & UK-based Hadrian, which offers a SaaS platform for large-scale “pen testing”: scanning companies entire IT infrastructure (from outside-in), with its AI models mimicking a hackers creativity, to identify & remedy digital threats & attack vectors (also known as “attack surface management” or “cyber risk mapping”). As such, Hadrian competes in the US with Randori (acq. by IBM), RiskIQ (acq. by Microsoft), Palo Alto Networks (with their Cortex product) & CyCognito (<€150m) & in Europe with likes of Egerie (FR) (<€30m). Hadrian currently employees 60 people & the new funds...

aiOla uses voice & image recognition AI to digitize, automate & streamline inspection & production processes in (e.g. food, semiconductor, pharmaceutical) manufacturing. The concept of aiOla is simple. Have you finished a meeting? then simply send an audio message to an aiOla bot that is connected to one of your communication services (WhatsApp, Slack, Microsoft Teams) & aiOla converts it to text & then proceeds to the analysis stage (incl. tagging the info in your CRM). You can even send PDF files, photos & various documents to aiOla, & all the data will be analyzed & uploaded correctly to your CRM as well (without employees having to connect to cumbersome systems to fill out specific...