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Best Cybersecurity Companies in Bavaria, Germany

The 103 best Cybersecurity companies in Bavaria, Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: DataGuard.

103companies tracked
$264.5Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
24have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · CYBERSECURITY × BAVARIA

Our analysis of 174 Cybersecurity companies

$16.2b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

174companies analysed
96%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
20unicorns
2018median founding year
389kcombined LinkedIn audience
89%of audience held by top 3
2companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Cybersecurity companies in Bavaria

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFounderTech stackWeb popularityPatents & IP focusRecent signals
124metrics
Big data analytics and machine learning based affiliate fraud detection
———Sven Hezel
Founder & MD
WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+29Top 50M——
2Ad Guardian Plus
Cloud-based ad blocker solutions provider
———Lucian Bitai
CEO
————
3Almefy
Application 2 factor authentication solutions
——3—————
4Any2any
Cloud-based solutions or secure authentication and payments
———Allan Chester
CEO and Co-Founder
———1 launch
5AtroDAM
Provider of digital asset management system for businesses
————————
6Authenton
Passwordless authentication solutions
———Axel Vonderhagen
Co-Founder
————
7Authoreon
Decentralized network solution for identity theft and fraud protection
———Chris Heinze
CEO
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8Azena
Provider of AI and cloud-based integrated video analytics systems
———Felicitas Geiss
CEO
SAP Commerce CloudJavaVuetify+5Top 50M——

Top 12 Cybersecurity companies in Bavaria

#1
Seed · Rosenheim, Bavaria · founded 2024
$2Mraised
▾

Developer of software for detecting deepfakes and manipulated media. The software analyzes images and videos to determine authenticity and identify traces of artificial intelligence. It offers contextual analysis with explanations based on research methods. The software provides API integration for applications to automate image sorting.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 24how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 38%
Funding
top 45%
AI
top 45%
Tech
bottom 35%
Global
bottom 33%
Market
bottom 25%
Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $2.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Seed (Mar 2026)
AI: Product described with: artificial intelligence
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2026Seed$2M
Founders & team
Anatol MaierCo-Founder & Co-CEOAnika GrunerCo-Founder & Managing Director
Investors
Vanagon Ventures, Bayern Kapital, Lightfield Equity
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsComplianzHstsHttp/3Jquery
#2
Series C · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2018 · 36 employees
$27Mraised
▾

Provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering and fraud prevention technology solutions. The company offers a unified platform designed for financial institutions and regulated entities. It helps streamline programs, reduce false positives, and detect risks. The platform includes transaction monitoring, customer risk rating, and screening capabilities.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 57how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 31%
Growth
top 35%
Talent
top 38%
Moat
top 41%
AI
top 45%
Tech
top 49%
Funding: Raised $27.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 7 yrs (0.4/yr) · Last round Series C (Apr 2025)
Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Audience (LinkedIn): 22k LinkedIn followers — 5.7% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 2 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. financial crime ecosystem specialists) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Series C$56M
  • Jun 2024Series B—
  • Jan 2023Series B$17M
  • Jun 2021Series A$10M
Founders & team
Tobias SchweigerCo-Founder & CEOWolfgang BernerCo-Founder & CPO
Investors
Sands Capital, DN Capital, BlackFin, Picus Capital, Coalition Capital, BlackFin Tech
Tech stack
AosApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser InsightsCloudflare Rocket Loader
#3
Series A · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2021 · 22 employees
$5.5Mraised
▾

Offers data privacy solutions. It is a privacy compliance system that enables continuous data and process discovery, regulatory compliance, and privacy automation. It features a no-code system integration that makes it possible to fully automate data privacy operations and demands, including deletion concepts and access requests.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 40how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 35%
Talent
top 38%
News
top 45%
Funding
top 49%
Tech
bottom 48%
Moat
bottom 38%
Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated
News: 2 BI events in 12 mo (of 6 tracked, 1 types) · Top themes: Funding
Audience (LinkedIn): 6k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Series A$16.5M
  • May 2023Seed$4.4M
  • May 2022Seed$1.1M
Founders & team
Kilian SchmidtCo-Founder & CEOJohannes HussakCo-Founder
Investors
10x Founders, xdeck.ventures, Superlyst Ventures, Redstone, PI LABS, Seedandspeed
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCalendlyCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle Analytics
#4
Series A · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2015 · 16 employees
$27.5Mraised
▾

Cloud based identity and access management solutions. It offers an OAuth2 and OpenID connect server that connects to existing identity provider through a consent app to mitigate attack vectors. It offers a tool for reverse identity and access proxy that authorizes http requests. User sessions are provided via JSON web token.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 53how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 28%
Tech
top 29%
Funding
top 39%
Moat
top 39%
Growth
top 45%
Global
bottom 49%
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Tech: 47 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Google Cloud · Observability: Microsoft Clarity, Sentry
Funding: Raised $27.5M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 5 yrs (0.4/yr) · Last round Series A (Apr 2024)
Audience (LinkedIn): 3k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. Tetrate) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2024Series A$5M
  • Dec 2021Series A$22.5M
Founders & team
Thomas CurranCo-Founder & CEOAeneas RekkasCo-Founder & CTOJeff KukowskiChief Executive Officer
Investors
Insight Partners, Balderton Capital, In-Q-Tel
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser InsightsCloudflare ZarazCrazy EggGoogle Analytics
#5
Series B · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2018 · 31 employees
$80.4Mraised
▾

Provider of IT security, consulting, data protection, and other services

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 55how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 24%
Funding
top 31%
News
top 39%
Talent
top 46%
Tech
top 47%
Global
bottom 39%
Growth: Headcount 14 → 31 (+121%) across vintages · 1 acquisition/expansion move in 24 mo
Funding: Raised $80.4M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 6 yrs (0.3/yr) · Last round Series B (Sep 2022)
News: 2 BI events in 12 mo (of 14 tracked, 5 types) · Top themes: Leadership
Audience (LinkedIn): 25k LinkedIn followers — 6.5% of this cohort's audience
Hiring (LinkedIn): 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Account Executive
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2022Series B$60.4M
  • Mar 2020Series A$20M
Founders & team
Reinhard GorenflosCo-Founder
Investors
One Peak, Morgan Stanley, Kreos Capital, Panta Rhei Capital, Astarc Ventures, buzzjective
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailChili PiperCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle Font Api
#6
Acquired · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2010 · 450 employees
$40Mraised
▾

Provider of automated and expert-led identity verification and digital trust services. They offer solutions for secure customer onboarding, fraud prevention, and compliance with regulations. The company’s offerings include automated identity verification, expert-led video verification, and in-person verification options. Trust services facilitate digital signatures, time stamps, and electronic seals.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2022Conventional Debt$61.3M
  • Dec 2020Conventional Debt$18.2M
  • Oct 2019Series C$40M
  • May 2018Series B—
Founders & team
Sebastian BaerholdCo-FounderArmin BauerFounderDennis FerenczyCo-Founder
Investors
Corsair Capital, Seventure Partners, BayBG Venture Capital, 10x Group, Giesecke+Devrient, BlackRock
Tech stack
AddtoanyAddtoany Share ButtonsAmazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerAura
#7
Acquired · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2008 · 3000 employees
$51.5Mraised
▾

Unify is a joint venture between The Gores group and Siemens AG that develops, deploys, and manages unified communications, network infrastructure and security and managed and professional services for large enterprises and small and medium businesses. Its primary product brands are OpenScape (unified communications applications), HiPath (converged enterprise communications) and Circuit (SaaS Team Communication). Openscape provides on demand contact center solutions including inbound, outbound and blended with skill based routing, integrated IVR, predictive dialing, workforce optimization, prepackaged and CRM integrations, real time monitoring.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$122.4K
  • Mar 2019Grant (prize money)$3.1M
  • Mar 2019Grant (prize money)$45.1K
  • Aug 2018Grant (prize money)$45.9K
Investors
Hercules Capital, Europa, Battery Ventures, OVP Venture Partners, The Gores Group
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerCdnjsCloudflareDrupalGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud Cdn
#8
Series A · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2020
$6.5Mraised
▾

Cloud based ad fraud detection software. It provides an analytical dashboard that includes insights for decision making. It offers a bot detection tool to intercept bots in real time. The platform analyzes the requests, data points, and behavioural patterns to provide information about traffic. The features of the product include prevention of click fraud, impression fraud, retargeting fraud, and affiliate fraud, google analytics exporting and importing, campaign score comparison, campaign performance optimization, and analytics, social media blacklisting, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2023Series A$6.5M
Founders & team
Tilman PfeifferCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Signals Venture Capital, OMR, arc investors, Müller Medien, Nevoc Ventures, Stallions Online
Tech stack
CalendlyCore-JsFacebook PixelFramer SitesGodaddyGoogle Analytics
#9
Series A · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2015 · 3 employees
$6Mraised
▾

IDee provides identity verification solutions using public key cryptography and blockchain technology. The company offers a solution named JUNO that creates a digital identity leveraging public key cryptography, blockchain technology and users smartphones. Offers a multi-factor-authentication solution called OneClick, that provides access to a website, app, or computer by unlocking the phone using biometric verification.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2019Series A$6M
Founders & team
Al LakhaniFounder & CEO
Investors
Lucky Tree, Target Accelerators, Xcel, MXcel, QuarterMoore, LeadX Capital
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailHttp/3
#10
Series A · Ismaning, Bavaria · founded 2005 · 14 employees
$8.4Mraised
▾

Collax provides security solution for enterprise. Product Collax Security Gateway is an Unified Threat Management solution (UTM). It protects both the user, the network and servers against threats from the Internet and establishes secure connections to remote offices & mobile users. Features include stateful inspection firewall, VPN, filtering, anti-spam and networking failover. It is available as a hardware appliance with preinstalled software.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2006Series A$8.4M
Founders & team
Boris NalbachFounder & GM
Investors
Atlas Venture, Wellington Partners Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Hasso Plattner Ventures, Kfw, nVent
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerUmamiJqueryRss
#11
Acqui-Hired · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2002
$3.8Mraised
▾

Ubitexx GmbH developed and distributed management and security software for smartphones and mobile devices. It offered ubi-Suite, a centralized smartphone management suite of capabilities. The company also provided strategic mobile management consulting, training and installation, and technical support services. After being acquired by Blackberry, products offered are MDM, MAM and other Security functions like SSO, Secure Workspace and more.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2008Series A$3.8M
Founders & team
Markus C. Muellerex-CEO
Investors
Kfw, Asset & Resource Management Company, BayBG, Target Partners
#12
Acquired · Miltenberg, Bavaria · founded 1998 · 41 employees
$1.9Mraised
▾

Cloud based data encryption solution provider. It provides a cyber security platform that offers solutions such as file encryption, email encryption, identity and access management, digital signatures, etc. The platform also protects the social data of insured persons and users from unauthorized access.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2017Grant (prize money)$1.9M
Investors
EIC Fund
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpThink Up Themes ConsultingBootstrapContact Form 7

Funding & investor landscape

$264.5Mtotal disclosed funding
19companies funded
43disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Europa5 rounds
Bayern Kapital4 rounds
BayBG3 rounds
One Peak3 rounds
WERK13 rounds
BayBG Venture Capital2 rounds
Coalition Capital2 rounds
German Accelerator2 rounds
HTGF2 rounds
Kfw2 rounds

Notable founders

Anatol Maier
Co-Founder & Co-CEO · Neuramancer
Anika Gruner
Co-Founder & Managing Director · Neuramancer
Tobias Schweiger
Co-Founder & CEO · Hawk
Wolfgang Berner
Co-Founder & CPO · Hawk
Kilian Schmidt
Co-Founder & CEO · Kertos
Johannes Hussak
Co-Founder · Kertos
Thomas Curran
Co-Founder & CEO · ORY
Aeneas Rekkas
Co-Founder & CTO · ORY
Reinhard Gorenflos
Co-Founder · DataGuard
Sebastian Baerhold
Co-Founder · IDnow
Armin Bauer
Founder · IDnow
Tilman Pfeiffer
Co-Founder & CEO · fraud0
Prism market signals · Germany · country-scoped Prism corpus, 2,110,885 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Cybersecurity coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Cybersecurity companies are there in Bavaria, Germany?
Radar tracks 103 indexable Cybersecurity companies headquartered in Bavaria, Germany that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Cybersecurity companies in Bavaria, Germany?
The Cybersecurity companies in Bavaria, Germany on this list have raised a combined $264.5M in disclosed equity funding across 19 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Cybersecurity company in Bavaria, Germany?
DataGuard is the highest-funded Cybersecurity company in Bavaria, Germany, with $80.4M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Cybersecurity companies in Bavaria, Germany are funded?
19 of the 103 Cybersecurity companies in Bavaria, Germany on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Cybersecurity unicorns are there in Bavaria, Germany?
None of the Cybersecurity companies in Bavaria, Germany on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Bavaria, Germany Cybersecurity companies?
The most active investors in Bavaria, Germany Cybersecurity companies on this list include Europa, Bayern Kapital, BayBG, One Peak, WERK1.
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