Best Cybersecurity Companies in Turkey
The 89 best Cybersecurity companies in Turkey in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Picus Security.
Turkey's Cybersecurity startup scene is smaller than the headlines suggest, but the funding tells a real story. Eighty-nine companies tracked, $122M in total disclosed capital, and one name doing most of the heavy lifting: Picus Security at $80M, which is nearly two-thirds of the entire pool on its own. TechSign follows at $30M, then a cluster of early-stage bets, Brandefense and ATAR Labs at $3M each, Malwation and Kondukto at $1M. No unicorns yet, but the concentration at the top is worth watching. So if you're scanning this directory for where momentum actually lives, start with those two outliers.
The broader market context sharpens the picture. Global cybersecurity spend is tracking around $72.5B with a roughly 11% CAGR, driven by deepening internet dependency, tightening government regulations, and the expanding attack surface between businesses and their customers. OpenAI's recently published cybersecurity action plan signals that AI is now a first-order concern for the sector, not a side conversation. For Turkish firms, that's both pressure and opportunity. Investors like Alesta, Innogate, and Diffusion Capital Partners are already in the room. I'd expect the next funding round out of this market to land in threat detection or AI-assisted response. The sector's moving, and Turkey's building its own lane inside it.
- Cybersecurity Market to Grow 15% between 2020 and 2026
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.
Ranked: Best Cybersecurity companies in Turkey
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Picus Security Provider of a platform for security validation and exposure management | $80M | 21 mo ago | Series C | Hamdi Memis Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailAmazon Web Services+26 | — |
| 2 | TechSign Cloud based digital transaction management suite solutions for enterprises | $30M | 37 mo ago | Seed | Abdullah Kip CEO | 2016 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowreCAPTCHA+12 | — |
| 3 | Brandefense Provides digital risk protection solutions platform | $3M | 5 mo ago | Seed | Hakan Uzun Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer | 2022 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+32 | — |
| 4 | ATAR Labs Provider of a platform for threat detection and response | $3M | 104 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Burak Dayioglu Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 5 | CRYPTTECH Provider of security information and event management compliance solutions | $2M | 151 mo ago | Series A | Alper Yilmaz Founder | 2006 | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | — |
| 6 | Malwation Security analytics for assessing malware analysis solutions provider | $1M | 30 mo ago | Seed | — | 2020 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+14 | — |
| 7 | Kondukto Platform offering application security management software | $1M | 45 mo ago | Acquired | Can Taylan Bilgin Co-Founder & COO | 2018 | StoryblokApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+22 | — |
| 8 | Vimesoft Cloud-based unified communication platform for enterprises | $400K | 42 mo ago | Seed | Mustafa Gozalan Co-Founder | 2020 | PHPGoogle MapsLaravel+25 | 1 job opening |
| 9 | Eyedius Provider of AI and facial recognition-based access control and surveillance solutions | $312K | 102 mo ago | Funding Raised | Serdar Yılmaz Co-Founder | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — |
| 10 | Arvia Tech Cloud-based platform for video conferencing | $100K | 53 mo ago | Seed | Oezge Bozkurt Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — |
| 11 | Trapmine Signature Less Zero Day Prevention | $100K | 96 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2014 | Animate.cssLiteSpeedAmazon Web Services+7 | — |
Top 12 Cybersecurity companies in Turkey
#1
Seed · Turkey · founded 2022 · 56 employees$3.4Mraised▾
Provides digital risk protection solutions platform. Solutions provide threat intelligence, brand protection, vulnerability management, VIP security, attack surface management and fraud protection. Features they offer are dark web monitoring, AI driven intelligence, false positive elimination, attack surface and advanced API integration.
- Jan 2026Seed—
- Dec 2023Seed$2.8M
- Feb 2022Seed$600K
#2
Series C · Ankara, Ankara · founded 2013 · 220 employees$80Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for security validation and exposure management. The platform offers security control, attack surface, and cloud security validation. It features attack path and detection rule validation, along with integrations. The platform helps discover, evaluate, and prioritize vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. It consolidates security data to improve decision-making and operational efficiency. The platform simulates attacks to measure and optimize security controls.
- Sep 2024Series C$45M
- May 2022Series B—
- Oct 2021Series B$24M
- Oct 2019Series A$5M
#3
Seed · Pendik, Istanbul · founded 2016 · 31 employees$30Mraised▾
Cloud based digital transaction management suite solutions for enterprises. It provides an open API platform for document management, multi-factor authentication, remote customer acquisition, KYC tool, chip ID card verification, biometric signatures, and more. It also offers tools for online document signing for bank transactions, loan approval, account opening, wealth management, and other processes. It caters its solution to industries such as retail, finance, healthcare, tourism, transport, and more.
- May 2023Seed$30M
- Sep 2021Seed—
#4
Seed · Pendik, Istanbul · founded 2020 · 13 employees$1Mraised▾
Security analytics for assessing malware analysis solutions provider. The products offered by the company include Malwation AIMA and MSP. It is a hypervisor-based automated malware analysis system. The features of the product include analytics and reports, network analysis, human simulations, malware detection, real-time customization of rule sets.
- Dec 2023Seed$1M
- Apr 2022Seed—
#5
Acquired · Maltepe, Istanbul · founded 2018 · 23 employees$1Mraised▾
Platform offering application security management software. It offers a solution to analyze the application to identify and prioritize threats. It also enables the developers to remediate threats. It facilitates the creation of a custom playbook for continuous delivery and continuous integration. The platform automatically runs security scanners at different stages of the pipeline to secure the application.
- Sep 2022Seed$1M
#6
Acqui-Hired · Ankara, Ankara · founded 2017$2.9Mraised▾
Atar labs provide a platform for threat detection and response. The platform can interrogate endpoints, configure firewalls, isolate computers in a network, lock user accounts either temporarily or permanently. It also helps analysts by gathering data and evidence to help facilitate faster analysis and taking remediation actions.
- Sep 2017Seed$2.9M
#7
Seed · Istanbul, Istanbul · founded 2020 · 26 employees$400Kraised▾
Cloud-based unified communication platform for enterprises. It offers an encrypted video conferencing software and hardware system for internal communications. It provides features such as multi format content sharing, screen sharing, meeting scheduling, conference invitations, attendee reports, event recordings, text messaging, conferencing statistics and analytics, etc. Additionally, it provides a landline conference system and integrations with SIP, googles calendar, SMS, etc. The offering sectors include finance, security, government, healthcare, etc.
- Dec 2022Seed$400K
#8
Series A · Istanbul, Istanbul · founded 2006$2.3Mraised▾
CRYPTTECH provides security information, event management and compliance solutions for the public and private sectors. Products include CryptoSIM, a SIEM software for threat detection and security risk evaluation of network behavior and performance, Unitmon Unified IT Monitoring, for identifying critical shortcomings or failures on IT infrastructure, Cryptospot, an Internet access gateway software to share an internet connection between multiple users in a secure and controlled environment, and Cryptology, a log manager that collects, normalizes, and categorizes logs generated across the network and turn it into valuable information.
- Nov 2013Series A$2.3M
#9
Seed · Istanbul, Istanbul · founded 2017 · 6 employees$100Kraised▾
Cloud-based platform for video conferencing. It provides software for video meetings, live chat, text chat, and screen sharing. It also offers a widget for video chat, voice call, file uploads, call routing, group collaboration, on-screen drawing, and brainstorming.
- Jan 2022Seed$100K
#10
Funding Raised · Istanbul, Istanbul · founded 2017 · 14 employees$312Kraised▾
Provider of AI and facial recognition-based access control and surveillance solutions. Its products portfolio includes a mobile application that provides access control solutions based on facial recognition by using smartphones camera. It also offers a monitoring solution by analyzing the camera footage, and a real-time warning by monitoring and interpreting the footage.
- Dec 2017Grant (prize money)$312K
#11
Acquired · Izmir, Aegean Region · founded 2014 · 14 employees$100Kraised▾
Trapmine is an endpoint security solution to protect enterprises from Advanced Persistent Threat & Zero-Day attacks. Block exploitation techniques instead of identifying exploits. Trapmine prevents phishing attacks that happen via attachments in emails. They also prevent drive by malwares downloads which happen due to compromised legitimate websites.
- 2018Seed—
- Aug 2014Seed$100K
#12
Public · Mugla, Mugla · founded 2016 · 4 employees$21.4Kraised▾
AttackFlow provides an interactive secure source code analysis to the developers. Product AttackFlow is a Visual Studio extension which monitors code in IDE and tries to find security vulnerabilities including the flow analysis. Available as both a plugin usable directly in Visual Studio 2015 IDE and a standalone builder. Employs heuristics and proprietary methods to notify the developer with a Risk Score badge. Currently supports C# programming language and both ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET WebForms frameworks. Planned to develop plugin for Team Foundation Server (TFS) and support for Java with Spring and classical JSP/Servlet stack.
- Apr 2018Seed$21.4K
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 Turkey
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 222 Turkey-affiliated papers.
- Gazi University13
- Istanbul Technical University12
- Boğaziçi University11
- Altınbaş University10
- Ankara University9
- Intrusion detection system1→32
- Network security2→12
- Anomaly detection2→11
- Denial-of-service attack2→6
- Computer security2→5
- Intrusion detection system5→40
- Artificial neural network1→11
- Denial-of-service attack3→12
- Network security14→19
- Network packet1→4
- Computer security2→5
- Network security2→5
- Denial-of-service attack1→4
Where cybersecurity is researched across Turkey
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.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.