Best Cybersecurity Companies in Scotland, United Kingdom
The 36 best Cybersecurity companies in Scotland, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Cyacomb.
Our analysis of 53 Cybersecurity companies
$3.0b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Cybersecurity companies in Scotland
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Acumen Cyber Provider of cybersecurity suite solution | — | — | — | 2023 | Kevin Robertson Chief Operating Officer & Co-founder | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365PHP+23 | — | — |
| 2 | AML Hub Anti-money laundering compliance software solutions | — | — | 9 | 2002 | Graham Gibson CEO | — | — | — |
| 3 | ClamXAV Anti-virus and malware scanner for Mac | — | — | 5 | 2004 | Mark Allan Founder & MD | — | — | — |
| 4 | Connect Devices Network security solution | — | — | 2 | 2015 | Callum Wilson Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 5 | Cyborn Provider of data privacy solutions | — | — | — | 2018 | David Lanc Founder & CEO | — | 14 patents Secure data redundancy and multi‑party authentication protocols for network communications | — |
| 6 | Diddo Security solution for endpoints | — | — | 4 | 2016 | Doug T Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 7 | Melrose Labs Provider of bulk messaging solutions | — | — | 1 | 2019 | Mark Hay Founder | PHPBootstrapAmazon ALB+18 | — | 1 launch |
| 8 | Netintelligence Cloud based web-filtering and security gateways | — | — | 430 | 2000 | Stephen Whitelaw CEO | Java | — | — |
Top 12 Cybersecurity companies in Scotland
#1
Series A · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2012 · 7 employees$6.7Mraised▾
Provider of mobile app protection and mobile API security solutions. It offers runtime application self-protection, verifying trust and mitigating threats. The company secures devices, applications, APIs, and communication channels. It provides real-time threat analytics for visibility into mobile app security. The company delivers secrets just-in-time to attested applications at runtime. It offers attestation solution for mobile apps and their APIs.
- Aug 2025Series A$6.7M
#2
Series A · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2016 · 35 employees$17.4Mraised▾
Provider of digital forensics software to help police forces
- Oct 2023Series A$4.7M
- May 2023Series A$4M
- Mar 2021Series A$10M
- Nov 2019Series A$2.4M
#3
Acquired · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2010 · 37 employees$14.6Mraised▾
Transaction data platform for businesses. It offers fraud detection technology to banks, wealth management firms, and online lenders. It verifies a customers identity and financial profile online by combining bank-verified identities with live financial transaction history and bureau data to remove fraud and credit risk. It provides instant insights into the financial behaviors of borrowers through real-time transaction data.
- Feb 2023Series A$9.6M
- Jan 2022Seed$3M
- May 2019Seed$2M
#4
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2010 · 28 employees$11.1Mraised▾
Financial assessment and onboarding solutions. Offers DirectID, that credit risk assessment such as compliance, fraud, and regulations. DirectID Dashboard is an online decision-making tool for fraud analysts and credit risk officers. It provides all the necessary information lenders need to grant or deny a loan application. DirectID Banking Data API allows quick development of financial service products and access to enhanced data insights. DirectID Categories and Classifications engine uses cloud-based machine learning and big data analytics algorithms to obtain deeper insights from transaction data to enable financial services providers and existing lenders to calculate affordability and detect fraud risks. Also offers Nomo, a personal financial management app. The app is available for the iOS platform.
- May 2019Seed$2M
- Dec 2014Seed$3.5M
- Jan 2014Seed$1.7M
- Apr 2012Seed$2.5M
#5
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2021 · 5 employees$838.7Kraised▾
Provider of a platform offering data privacy protection solutions. The platform allows users to monitor and classify personal data in motion. It also provides risk analytics and remediation to the privacy and operations teams inside the enterprise.
- Aug 2023Seed$309.3K
- Dec 2021Seed$529.4K
#6
Acqui-Hired · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2012 · 25 employees$7Mraised▾
ZoneFox is an endpoint monitoring and insider threat detection solution to protect data and intellectual property from malicious and accidental insider threats. A lightweight agent securely streams continuous sequences of activity to a centralized server from the monitored endpoint. Monitors and detects users activity for analomous behaviour; data access at file level for unauthorized access or export from external locations; application usage for violating policy or installations indicative of malware activity/machine compromise. Zonefox performs data analytics on all collected data to provide alerts and dashboard views reporting analomous behaviour, policy violation or data breach. Spun out in 2010 from Edinburgh's Napier University.
- Feb 2017Series A$4.5M
- Oct 2015Seed$986.5K
- May 2014Seed$754.7K
- Apr 2013Seed$765.2K
#7
Acquired · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2006 · 4 employees$10Mraised▾
Metaforic offers advanced software security solutions that protect software applications from attack on desktop, mobile, embedded and server environments.It provides cryptography to verify the integrity of data, authenticate external parties, and to establish secure communications.
- Apr 2011Series B$8M
- Oct 2008Series A$2M
#8
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2016 · 12 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Blockchain-based enterprise data-sharing platform. It provides distributed ledger technology (DLT), to deliver a cyber secure data sharing platform for organizations. It facilitates data sharing with security, protection, integrity, and governance.
- Nov 2020Seed$1.7M
- Aug 2017Seed—
#9
Series A · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2011 · 6 employees$2Mraised▾
Payfont prevents payment fraud and theft due to misappropriation of financial details over e-commerce platforms. It delivers identity protection for online transactions by creating a virtual vault between the consumer and the party they are dealing with. Solution employs its patented technology of trusted authentication and payment environment that protects a user's financial details, but allows them to be securely authenticated and arranges for transactions to be fulfilled, while providing other parties with reassurance that transactions will be completed.
- Nov 2015Series A$1.8M
- Oct 2014Seed—
- Aug 2014Seed$168K
#10
Seed · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2007$500Kraised▾
Online platform offering tools for video conferencing. It is a platform that provides businesses with tools to create customizable video websites. It allows recording, embedding, and centralizing of video content. It supports direct monetization of hosted videos. It offers a platform for organizations to share video content with audiences.
- Jan 2010Seed$500K
#11
Acquired · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2012 · 22 employees$202.2Kraised▾
Provider of identity and access management solutions. It offers a platform for managing access to applications and data, using a centralized policy engine that evaluates real-time data and contextual information. This allows for flexible policy creation beyond traditional role-based access, enabling compliance with various regulations and improving business agility. The platform facilitates data access control through APIs, enabling developers to access data without direct connections. It also allows for fine-grained data authorization, including filtering and obfuscation of specific attributes in responses. Deployment options include cloud and on-premises solutions.
- May 2019Series A—
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$202.2K
#12
Public · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2006 · 4 employees$156.6Kraised▾
Provider of visual search solutions for mobile devices. It bridges the gap between offline and online media by linking printed material and physical objects to digital content, social media, commerce, and marketing, while maintaining the integrity of the brand message and eliminating the need for visible cues, such as QR codes. The company has two products one is a visual search for large-scale campaigns and product databases containing millions of images and the second is a mobile-based visual search for a small number of images.
- Apr 2017Seed$156.6K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
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
How research on Cybersecurity is moving in the United Kingdom
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 813 United Kingdom-affiliated papers.
- Imperial College London31
- Edinburgh Napier University29
- University of Essex26
- University of Bristol23
- University of Warwick21
- Intrusion detection system10→98
- Key (lock)2→31
- Denial-of-service attack9→32
- Anomaly detection11→32
- Internet of Things1→20
- Intrusion detection system30→58
- Internet of Things1→15
- Malware3→17
- Network security27→40
- Denial-of-service attack10→23
- Cryptography1→6
- Internet of Things1→6
- Intrusion detection system10→15
- Exploit1→6
- Key (lock)4→8
Where cybersecurity is researched across United Kingdom
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.
Who's filing cybersecurity patents in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom cybersecurity patent filing is accelerating — 14,204 filings from 6,553 assignees (2016–2025), led by Advanced RISC MACH, British Telecomm, Sophos; annual filings 893→1352.
- Advanced RISC MACH2003
- British Telecomm1475
- Sophos750
- IBM729
- IBM UK589
- NDS403
- Cirrus Logic INT Semiconductor352
- ARM IP340
Common questions
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