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Best Cybersecurity Companies in Romania

The 39 best Cybersecurity companies in Romania in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Drivelock.

39companies tracked
$28.9Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
3have raised
Sources & further reading
  • Cybersecurity market grows 16% despite deteriorating economic conditio
  • Cybersecurity Market Size, Share & Growth Report, 2033
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · CYBERSECURITY × ROMANIA

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

Ranked: Best Cybersecurity companies in Romania

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Drivelock
Data Loss Prevention, Full Disk Encryption
$9M92 mo agoLate Stage—2004HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailMaterial Design Lite+24—
2TypingDNA
Provider of typing biometric authentication and fraud detection security solutions
$9M80 mo agoSeries ACristian Tamas
Co-founder
2016VimeoBootstrapGoogle Cloud+19—
3Bitdefender
Provider of cybersecurity software, threat intelligence, and managed security services
$7M72 mo agoSeries BLiesbeth Dijk
Managing Director
2001Proton MailApple iCloud MailSalesforce+401 launch · 1 award
4Cyscale
Provides IT services suite
$4M36 mo agoSeries AAndrei Milas
Co-Founder & CTO
2018Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Varnish+15—
5DigiByte
Blockchain and asset creation platform
$250K141 mo agoSeedJared Tate
Co-Founder
2013VarnishGitHub PagesCloudflare+11—
6Pay By Face
Provider of biometrics based online payment solutions for businesses
—51 mo agoSeed—2017WordPressMySQLPHP+24—
7CoSoSys
Data Loss Prevention & device control solution
—78 mo agoAcquired—2004WordPressSentryMySQL+19—
8CTF365
IT security training through gamification
—130 mo agoSeedMarius Corici
Co-Founder & CEO
2012RubyLeafletRuby on Rails+11—

Top 8 Cybersecurity companies in Romania

#1
Series A · Cluj napoca, Cluj County · founded 2018 · 18 employees
$3.6Mraised
▾

Provides IT services suite

Founders & team
Andrei MilasCo-Founder & CTOOvidiu CicalCo-Founder
Investors
Gapminder, Notion, Seedcamp, Server Density, Europa, PrimaInvest
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsCloudflare Rocket LoaderEmotionFastly
#2
Series A · Oradea, Bihor County · founded 2016 · 64 employees
$8.6Mraised
▾

Provider of typing biometric authentication and fraud detection security solutions. The company offers continuous endpoint authentication, preventing unauthorized computer use. It delivers two-factor authentication without requiring phones, using typing patterns. The system analyzes typing micro-patterns, focusing on user experience for authentication. This technology improves security and accuracy, verifying identity without needing a phone.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2020Series A$7M
  • Jan 2019Seed$1.5M
  • 2018Seed$120K
  • Oct 2016Seed—
Founders & team
Cristian TamasCo-founder
Investors
Gradient Ventures, Gapminder, Techstars, Europa, Mentors Fund, Gecad Ventures
Tech stack
BootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookiebotGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Cloud
#3
Series B · Bucharest, Bucharest · founded 2001 · 179 employees
$7Mraised
▾

Provider of cybersecurity software, threat intelligence, and managed security services. The company delivers threat prevention, detection, and response solutions. It offers security for endpoints, cloud workloads, and small to medium businesses. The business provides extended detection and response, managed detection and response, and security advisory services.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 220k LinkedIn followers — 75.3% of this cohort's audience · 44 engagements/post (1.9× cohort median)
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Liesbeth DijkManaging Director
Investors
Vitruvian Partners, Axxess Capital, Europa
Tech stack
Adobe Audience ManagerAdobe Client Data LayerAdobe Experience ManagerAdobe Experience Platform Identity ServiceAdobe Experience Platform LaunchAmazon Alb
#4
Late Stage · Cluj napoca, Cluj County · founded 2004 · 47 employees
$9.4Mraised
▾

DriveLock is a product from CenterTools offering granular options in regulating USB and other devices along with the encryption of hard drives and data on removable media, a comprehensive application control and an anti-virus including an app for mobile phones to support mobile based containerization.

Investors
Nordwind Growth, JVH Ventures
Tech stack
Animate.CssApple Icloud MailAzureCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookiebot
#5
Seed · Iasi, Iasi County · founded 2013 · 23 employees
$250Kraised
▾

Blockchain and asset creation platform. It consists of three layers a smart contract app store, a public ledger, and the core protocol featuring nodes communicating to relay transactions.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2014Seed$250K
Founders & team
Jared TateCo-Founder
Investors
Blockchain R&I, Lighting Capital
Tech stack
AosCdnjsCloudflareFastlyFont AwesomeGithub Pages
#6
Seed · Bucharest, Bucuresti · founded 2017 · 10 employees
—raised
▾

Provider of biometrics based online payment solutions for businesses. It offers biometric authentication for regulatory compliant payments. Its also features include preventing fraudulent transactions, digital payment ecosystem security, and cashless payment processing. The application made available on Android and iOS platforms.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2022Seed—
Investors
SafexPay, Startupbootcamp, Tech Ventures, Visa Innovation Program
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementComplianzContact Form 7ElementorGoogle Analytics
#7
Acquired · Cluj napoca, Cluj County · founded 2004 · 67 employees
—raised
▾

CoSoSys produces software for data leak prevention and device control, to control and restrict date sent from computers to portable and mobile devices and cloud computing services. After its acquisition in Jan 2011 by Astaro, CoSoSys's management and founder led a management buyout to become an independent software vendor. Currently, the company provides virtual appliance or hardware baded endpoint centric management suite for SMBs and enterprises called Endpoint Protector to control the use of company data on portable and mobile devices.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 9k LinkedIn followers — 3.0% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Investors
Turn/River
Tech stack
6SenseAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementGoogle Analytics
#8
Seed · Cluj napoca, Cluj County · founded 2012 · 8 employees
—raised
▾

Operator of a cloud-based security training platform intended for security professionals, sysadmins, and web developers. The company offers a security training platform to leverage gamification mechanics to improve retention rates and speed up the learning curve in the field of information security, enabling clients to improve and strengthen communication skills.

Founders & team
Marius CoriciCo-Founder & CEOMarius ChisCo-Founder & CFO
Investors
Hubraum
Tech stack
RubyRuby On RailsLitespeedRssHttp/3

Funding & investor landscape

$28.9Mtotal disclosed funding
5companies funded
4disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Europa3 rounds
Gapminder3 rounds
Gecad Ventures2 rounds
Hubraum2 rounds
MVP Academy2 rounds
Orange Fab Romania2 rounds
Activize1 rounds
Axxess Capital1 rounds
Blockchain R&I1 rounds
Clever Capital1 rounds

Notable founders

Andrei Milas
Co-Founder & CTO · Cyscale
Ovidiu Cical
Co-Founder · Cyscale
Cristian Tamas
Co-founder · TypingDNA
Liesbeth Dijk
Managing Director · Bitdefender
Jared Tate
Co-Founder · DigiByte
Marius Corici
Co-Founder & CEO · CTF365
Marius Chis
Co-Founder & CFO · CTF365
Prism market signals · Romania · country-scoped Prism corpus, 141,988 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

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Romania

How research on Cybersecurity is moving in Romania

A read on the academic research around Cybersecurity — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 128 Romania-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201020232025
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 26% → 48% across 2010–2025.
top research entities
  • Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București42
  • Polytechnic University of Timişoara14
  • National Research Council12
  • University of Bucharest9
  • Technical University of Cluj-Napoca9
leading researchers
Anton, Alin-Adrian · Doru Balan · Alin Dan Potorac · Mihai Carabaș · Luca Durante · Adriano Valenzano · Wojciech Mazurczyk · Luca Caviglione
▲ Breakthroughs41 · 32%
▲ 24%→40% share
▲1.7× share momentum0 median citations68% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (24%→40% of field), led by Intrusion detection system.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Intrusion detection system3→8
  • Network security3→7
  • Computer security3→4
Newly emergingData security 0→10 · Data transmission 0→10 · Encryption 0→9
Landmark Cyber-Security-Aware Network Design of Industrial Control Systems · 53 cites
◆ Advancements48 · 38%
▼ 53%→38% share
▼0.7× share momentum2 median citations58% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (53%→38% of field), led by Intrusion detection system.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Intrusion detection system4→10
  • Feature selection1→4
  • Firewall (physics)3→6
  • Software deployment1→4
Landmark A Multi-level Random Forest Model-Based Intrusion Detection Using Fuzzy Inference System for Internet of Things Networks · 49 cites
▼ Concerns22 · 17%
▼ 18%→9% share
▼0.5× share momentum2 median citations36% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (18%→9% of field), led by Computer security.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Computer security17
  • Network security8
  • Computer network6
  • Denial-of-service attack3
  • Vulnerability (computing)3
Landmark Review of Security Issues in Industrial Networks · 336 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Romania

Where cybersecurity is researched across Romania

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Bucharest70 · +0.43
Hot · Network securityAdvancing · Intrusion detection systemOpportunity · Internet of ThingsConcern · Computer security
Timișoara14 · +0.80
Hot · Data transmissionAdvancing · ChecksumOpportunity · Data security
Iasi11 · +0.43
Hot · Computer securityAdvancing · Network securityOpportunity · Game theory
Cluj-Napoca10 · +0.38
Hot · Computer securityAdvancing · Network securityOpportunity · Intrusion detection system

Common questions

How many Cybersecurity companies are there in Romania?
Radar tracks 39 indexable Cybersecurity companies headquartered in Romania that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Cybersecurity companies in Romania?
The Cybersecurity companies in Romania on this list have raised a combined $28.9M in disclosed equity funding across 5 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Cybersecurity company in Romania?
Drivelock is the highest-funded Cybersecurity company in Romania, with $9.4M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Cybersecurity companies in Romania are funded?
5 of the 39 Cybersecurity companies in Romania on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Cybersecurity unicorns are there in Romania?
None of the Cybersecurity companies in Romania on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Romania Cybersecurity companies?
The most active investors in Romania Cybersecurity companies on this list include Europa, Gapminder, Gecad Ventures, Hubraum, MVP Academy.
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